P38 Serial Numbers Spreewerke Grips

Looking online I found some production charts on the spreewerke p38's, but couldn't make heads or tails of it. My wife just bought a late war spreewerke p38. CYQ stamp with serial 80_ _ e it has a JVD and eagle over 88 stamped mag.

All numbers match on all parts. It has the 'soft plastic' grips as described by Jan Balcar. Can anyone help me out and tell me date of manufacture based on this info? I will try to post some pics later if possible. My camera sucks though so it's very hard to capture markings.

Install Afm Fonts Windows 2010. Maybe I will borrow a friend's. Paid about 600. It's in really nice shape. Just waiting on new springs to arrive before firing.

Type:Double action Caliber: 9x19mm Luger/Parabellum Weight unloaded: 800g Overall length:216mm Barrel length:125mm Magazine capacity: 8 rounds By 1931, the German army had already began their search for a new standard service pistol to replace the aging and costly P08 Parabellum, better known as the 'Luger'. Fritz Walther saw an opportunity for his company and immediately began working on a series of designs that would ultimately lead to the success known today as the Walther P38. Fritz Walther knew at once that only a design in 9mm Parabellum would be successful. He also decided that the design and construction of the new pistol would have to improve upon the negative factors of the P08 Luger. Those factors were: cost, reliability, and fewer parts.

The first design in this series of pistols was the Walther PP. This pistol was very successful; it was a blowback action, with a double action trigger. Walther thought first that they simply needed to enlarge the dimensions of the PP in order to have a successful 9mm Parabellum design. The blowback design was the key, and was much cheaper to produce than any locking systems. The first unlocked military pistol was known as the Walther MP (militarpisole).

It has the 'soft plastic' grips as described by Jan Balcar. Spreewerke p38 serial numbers, spreewerke serial numbers, walther p38 cyq. The production started 1939 at Walther and at Mauser and Spreewerke 1942. Serial number: Finish: Re-finished: Grips. 'P.38' - serial number - 'ac44. Serial numbers ended at 1025. The Spreewerke Factory. Right side view of this beautiful byf43 Mauser produced P38. Note the black colored grips, which are.

This pistol had a very high weight, and recoil spring was difficult, and not reliable. Only about a dozen of these pistols left the factory, and only about 6 are known to still exist! Walther decided that they needed a locking system. However it needed to be simple, cheap, and still reliable. They found one developed by an American named Pederson, who developed it for the Remington pistols. Once they had this design, the weight and dimensions of the MP were changed.

This oversized PP had a locking system with a rotating barrel. However all of these designs were rejected, because of the high prices, as well as weight.

Baixar Cd Tribo Do Funk Tudo Mudou. The Walther PPK was another design in this series which influenced the later P38. The main design feature of the PPK was its' cost savings. The PPK frame used far less materials to make it, since it did not have a back strap. The backs trap was performed by the plastic wrap around grips.

This saved materials, weight, time, and cost! This would eventually be used on the P38 as well. Walthers' next design incorporated an enclosed hammer, as well as a free floating barrel (the army demanded a free floating barrel for reliability). This new pistol was known as the Walther AP (armee-pistole). This pistol had a take down lever like the P08, and also had the double action trigger system of the PP. It also had a locking system, but it differed from the MP with only having a single locking block rather than two. The AP was the building block to Walther next design - the HP, or Heeres-Pistole.

Walther made a few minor changes to come up with the Walther HP. The HP had an external hammer, which the army preferred, and had a single case harden locking block, which prevented it from cracking. By late 1938 the Walther HP was in production, for commercial sales. Serial numbers ended at 1025. With a few more minor changes, the pistol finally was accepted by the German army, and 'P38' became the official model name! The army initially ordered 800 pieces on April 1, 1939. Many of these pistols had mixed parts between the HP and P38 and be marked with the commercial proof.

All of these were manufactured by hand! The first really genuine P38 were known as the Zero-series. These started with the serial numbers 01-013000, and below is pictured an example of one of these Zero-series P38s.