However, the pistol became synonymous with the designer’s name and it is best known as the ‘Luger pistol’. It used the bottlenecked 7.65mm cartridge and had a slender 120mm barrel. This model is referred to as the ‘Old Model’ or the ‘1900 model’. The Swiss military was the first to adopt the Parabellum pistol in 1900. However, it was an employee of DWM, the Austrian Georg Luger, who in 1898 perfected the design and created the elegant Parabellum design which is so iconic. It was produced at the Ludwig Loewe arms factory in Berlin (later DWM) and various attempts were made to market it as a service pistol. Read on for another LSB journey in firearms history… In an earlier post we discussed the genesis of the Luger pistol, starting with Hugo Borchardt’s locked breech self-loading pistol ‘Construktion 93’, or ‘C93’. What makes this Luger rather special is that we know which unit was using it, thanks to its unit stamps. In this second post with the theme ‘HANDGUNS OF WWI’ we shall be looking at a nice example of a military issue 1915-dated DWM Luger P08 pistol.
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