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P08 Luger Parts Reproduction4/24/2021
Books (39) Memorabilia (18) Misc Rifles (3) Merchandise (3) Hampers- (3) Promotional (1) Mauser Event- (1) Sect 5.Why not just get a run-of-the-mill original as a shooter and save yourself several hundred bucks.After all, the M1911 design has long been produced by a wide variety of manufacturers, at all kinds of price points and quality levels.But it certainly was worth a try and by doing so some magnificent reproductions were made, such as the Mitchell Arms P-08.
The company contracted a small Texas manufacturer by the name of Aimco to produce them. Although the guns were only made for about a decade, they can still be found used, a lot of which in good condition, if you hunt a bit. The fit and finish is quite good and, on top of that, original magazines work fine in the Mitchell Arms version. You see, the toggle-action design of the gun requires the correct balance between the main recoil spring and the magazine spring. If that balance is off, if one of the springs doesnt have the right pressure, then the whole system wont work properly, and there will be jams in the gun. The fact that the Mitchell Arms reproduction works with both original and new magazines says a lot. Note: New magazines also work in original models). I can confidently say that because I shot the two back-to-back, with no time lag, so I could make an immediate comparison. And since it is at the back of the gun, it tends to change the dynamics of how the gun moves in your hand. There is less of a feeling of muzzle-flip, though your whole hand moves up a bit. Im not recoil sensitive, but I could see how this design would appeal to someone who was. It was stiffer than on the original Luger, as well as a bit rougher. Not bad in either case, but to be clear it just wasnt as good as the 70-year-old gun, which had presumably been shot more. It is chambered in 9mm Parabellum, equipped with a 4-inch barrel and an 8-round magazine, and weighs around 30 ounces. Photo credit: The Outdoors Trader ). Everything fit together tightly, and the gun felt perfectly solid in the hand. Nice walnut grips that were more friendly to the hand than the originals Bakelite plastic grips. Most of the reports I have read about these guns indicates that they also age pretty well, though some owners have reported that some batches of the guns had some problems with the stainless steel not being hard enough, which caused some galling of moving parts. Even using modern manufacturing technologies, the Luger costs more to produce. The Mitchell Arms P-08 sold for about 600 initially, but that price raised over time. If you go looking for one now, you can find a good usedLNIB one for something on the order of about 1,000. Granted, youre getting a gun that is new (or almost so) versus one thats somewhere between 60 to 100 years old. But youre also just getting another gun, as opposed to one with some real history tied to it.
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