If I want a pistol, I want it to be a Luger; or at the very least, look/operate like one. So much cool looking than your typical glocks. But alas. 😔
If I want a pistol, I want it to be a Luger; or at the very least, look/operate like one. So much cool looking than your typical glocks. But alas. 😔
It was produced for 42 years starting 1900 though indeed was made famous by nazis. I held one in my hand few times and it is very comfortable.
Afaik it wasn’t very good pistol though, at least at first.
I bet it was! Ahh, to be able to hold it as well~
Then again, don’t prototypes/earlier versions of everything in existence suck at the beginning?
Granted it shouldn’t be the case for something as serious as a gun but still.Not really, they were of slightly below average reliability up until production ceased. In fact, they were so unreliable and unremarkable as handguns, that they were the driving reason behind the common idea at the time that semi automatics weren’t to be trusted, and revolvers were the better choice.
The ejection mechanism was over engineered and very prone to jamming because of it. In fact the gun has a much greater amount of small working parts compared to other handguns, meaning there’s more things to break and wear down. In addition, because of said folding ejection system, clearing the jam was very difficult.
Also prepare to have it jam, and jam, and jam, and jam, unless you sacrifice only the utmost perfect and exact ammo to it, since it is extremely finicky and won’t like ammo that isn’t a perfect match. This is probably because the gun was designed around the 30 luger, but was “re-engineered” to use 9mm so the Germans could standardize with the MP-18 and MP-40.
Eh, over all it’s a “decent” handgun. But nothing to right home about, and it’s easily outclassed.