Walther P38 .30 Luger

CLASSIC12 · Jun 2, 2021

A month ago I helped a friend identify and appraise a few guns from a 90 yrs old gentleman who wanted to sell them.

Amongst them was a nice Walther P38 in .30 Luger, built in 1976. It came home with me.

I dressed it up with the wooden grips of my 9mm

With the 9mm

At the 25 m range

boykinlp · Jun 2, 2021

The gentleman had good taste.
Larry

Andyd · Jun 3, 2021

The wooden grips are most likely early Nill grips. Korth and Walther were some of the first customers of Karl Nill after he opened shop in 1969. As far as I know, Nill grips could be ordered from the Walther factory on new guns, while from 1969 they came standard on Korths. I have a few sets of those same grips and the later ones, too.

Early Nills on a .32 PP

Later model grips on a .22 PP

Both are discontinued and Rhomlas is the new style.

BAM-BAM · Jun 3, 2021

Always admired the Nill's stippling.

jake1945 · Jun 3, 2021

Great! A P-38 in caliber 30 luger! My next gun! I already reload for my DWM 30 luger.

BAM-BAM · Jun 3, 2021

Always admired the Nill's stippling.

murphydog · Jun 3, 2021

Is the 7.65 mm gun stamped with the chambering? Or are the Swiss just smart enough to know which ammo to use?

CLASSIC12 · Jun 3, 2021

murphydog said:
Is the 7.65 mm gun stamped with the chambering? Or are the Swiss just smart enough to know which ammo to use?

Yep, and the pic is in the original post

CLASSIC12 said:
A month ago I helped a friend identify and appraise a few guns from a 90 yrs old gentleman who wanted to sell them.

Amongst them was a nice Walther P38 in .30 Luger, built in 1976. It came home with me.

murphydog · Jun 3, 2021

Missed it, thought it would be on the side of the slide. Cool gun, common over there?

dav2no1 · Jun 3, 2021

Nice... I found some old vintage luger ammo if anyone might be interested. Western 7.65

CLASSIC12 · Jun 4, 2021

murphydog said:
Missed it, thought it would be on the side of the slide. Cool gun, common over there?

The 9mm is on the same spot

I don't think so, it's the first one I saw

Andyd · Jun 4, 2021

The caliber marking is normally on the slide but some of the civilian models have it marked on the front of the barrel, since the barrels were available separately. Walther also had the P5 chambered in 7,65 Parabellum / .30 Luger since Italian civilians for some time were not allowed to own military calibres like the 9mm.

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