![]() It's a nice pistol, reliable & more accurate than I am. Then you can put it on safe, take out the magazine and strip it by the button inside the trigger guard. In addition, in order to strip the weapon, you have to clear it then insert an empty magazine in to let the slide forward. In addition, there is a magazine safety - you can't pull the trigger if there isn't a magazine in the weapon. If the safety is off, the hammer stays cocked and you can either begin shooting or put the safety on and lower the hammer. Now that is safe because the safety physically moves the rear end of the firing pin to where it can not be hit by the hammer. Then, if the safety is on, the hammer automatically drops. You have to put in a mag for it go forward. The SA pull is as crisp and clean as one could hope for. The DA trigger pull is long and heavy, though smooth after 70 years of use. The butt mounted magazine release is also something disliked by many Americans but was the expected standard for a European pistol of its day. The European style slide mounted safety is "backwards" to most American shooters who expect a 1911 style down=off. There are, to the new user, some peculiarities. The grips are modern reproductions in plastic as the wood originals were almost ready to fall apart. I'll not have it blued again in case someone thinks the blue is the original finish somewhere down the road. I ponder getting it refinished when I can afford to send it off I'd like to have the nickel stripped and have it parkerized. ![]() At the end of the war it ended up in some GI's pocket and was brought back to the US by him - there are no importer's marks either - and at some point, probably in the 1950's it was badly nickel plated destroying the original Mauser bluing. ![]() In the middle of WWII, this was made for civilian purchase. This pistol, produced that month by it's serial number, was not made for the military or even the police - the only proof mark it bears is the standard civilian proof mark. In April 1942 the Germans had been at war for just over 2 1/2 years but were not yet on a full war economy. This particular example illustrates something that most American's don't really understand. In my opinion, they succeeded and, but for WWII, would have made a far bigger dent in Walther's sales. ![]() Mauser wanted in on the market but to do so would require a pistol that was better than the Walther. Back in the late 1930's, the police pistol market in German was owned by Walther between the PP & the PPK. ![]()
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