How About the P 38

[Texas Star]

The P-38 can also blow off the top of the slide, as well as suffer slide and frame cracks.

If I was a German officer in WWII, I think I'd have preferred the Browning M-35, if possible to get one. I think most Brownings went to SS and paratroop units.

But a pilot with one might carry it in a shoulder holster and not have the holster hang up if he bailed out. Many carried Walther PP's, as they fit more easily in a tight cockpit than would a Luger.

 

[clang444]

Saw the title of this thread and the first thing that came to my mind was the WWII fighter. The next was the little can opener that came in a case of C rats. Then Oh yeah, it was a pistol too!

 

[RobzGuns]

LOL... I still have a few of those little can openers.
One has always been in a pocket of my wallet.

 

[moosedog]

"The P-38 can also blow off the top of the slide, as well as suffer slide and frame cracks."

There is nothing inherently weak about the P-38.

Any WWII pistol can suffer the same fate if the springs are weak and the wrong ammo is used. 1911's can and do suffer the same fate.
These guns were built before +P ammo.

 

[gwpercle]

n pistol Anybody notice the Beretta M9, the handgun the US Army uses today , has a whole lot in common with the P38? Take down, barrel lock up and the way the barrel can be removed....sort of uncanny. Modernized P38 with a double stack magazine ala Browning High Power. My son has the civilian version and when I took it down for cleaning, I kept thinking... Hey ! it's just like my P38 !.

Wolff sells a complete spring kit for them...I replaced every spring in the pistol and the magazine with brand new modern ones. That lets me shoot mine with no worries. And I watch what ammo is fired in it. Safe shooting is possible if you do it right.

Gary