Posted on 08/14/2010 8:06:46 PM PDT by Still Thinking
What the heck is a "Manurhin"? Is this like a Walther knockoff or something, similar to the way there's CZ and Browning copies?
I don't know that I am, at least not seriously. I happened to see it scrolling through a site I look at and was intrigued. Just wanted to know some more before I decided if I was even interested or not.
I have owned several over the years. I shot PPC with one. I currently own one in mint condition. The trigger pull was adjusted by a gunsmith. I would not trade it for anything.
When you find something that works you stick with it.
How the hell would you know that?
Ever hear of French Indochina, DienbienPhu, Group Mobile 100, or Battalion Coree?
Why not shut up until you read a little history, wizeacre?
Paddles,
The US got their corn-fed butt kicked by a bunch of dirty, illiterate, under-equipped peasants wielding rusty AK-74s in Mogadishu. Yet the French don’t make fun of you guys. At least, the French army never dropped their pants fighting half-starving Africans.
But the French Navy has new glass bottom ships so they can see the old Navy ships.
Relax, Sweet Pea...it’s a joke.
“You guys?”
During the mid/late 1960s, I was a frequent visitor to the Walther waffenfabrik at Neu-Ulm, and spent many hours in the basement 25-meter test range with Herr Spolen, who signed most of the test targets that accompanied new production Walther firearms.
I also spent a good many hours upstairs in the assembly facility, where P1 versions of the WWII P.38 were being produced for the German army and police. Many of the parts used came directly from the French Manurhin facility, a tribute to the excellent work and quality control excercised at the French plant.
Manurhin also produced some very nice versions of the popular PP and PPK pocket autos and a few years later, some notable items of their own, including sove very nice .38 and .357 revolvers, particularly the model MR-73
I don't know that I am, at least not seriously. I happened to see it scrolling through a site I look at and was intrigued. Just wanted to know some more before I decided if I was even interested or not.
You might also find it of interest that spare magazines for the P1 are available from Cheaper Than Dirt for the sum of $11.97 each.
In these days when extra mags are running $30-$40 [or worse!] for serious handguns, that's a real bargain that should influence your thoughts on the matter. And the last ones I got from them were virtually unused, two being new in the wrapper. I've ordered several more, including a couple to be turned into magazines for a Polish Radom P.35 VIS- for which mags generally go for about $35 each.
BTW: if you get your P1, drop me a freepmail and I'll clue in on where original German military holsters for the things can be had for $10 each.
Thanks, Arch. From what you and the others have said, it sounds promising enough to probably go put an eyeball on it for condition.
Nope. That was the earlier Walther PP of circa 1929, thepoliezipistole, usually found chambered in the 7,65mm Browning/.32 auto cartridge, though .380 and .22LR versions are pretty common.
The P.38 was indeed the first 9mm Parabellum double-action handgun to be adopted for military service. And a surprising number still soldier on here and there in odd corners of the world.
Additional info for you *here* and *here*
And you may want to use Google's translator on this.
Thanks for the correction my friend!
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