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Zanzibar P1 Reverse

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Zanzibar P1

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Gabon P1 Reverse

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Walther P38

Lavriccat — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:13:41 MDT

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This is Walther P38 semiauto double action pistolCaliber 9x19mm9mm Luger 8rds magazine Made in Germany Walther Plantcodeac43 Not importVet bring back The Walther P38 pistol was developed as a military pistol for the German army Wehrmacht during the late 1930s It first appeared in 1938 and small numbers of the original HP Heeres Pistole army pistol were bought by Sweden before the Wehrmacht adopted it as the Pistole 38 and took over all production guns During the war P38 pistols were made by a number of factories including the Walther itself After the war most of the exWalther machinery ended up in France as war reparations and many of the postwar P38 pistols were actually built in France by the Manurhin factory In 1957 the newly formed Bundeswehr adopted a slightly modified P38 pistol with a lighter aluminum frame as the Pistole 1 or P1 in short Commercial pistols were still manufactured under the original P38 designation Most of the postwar P38 pistols were made with aluminum frames only handful of commercial pistols were made with steel frames There were a couple of modifications of the P38 intended for police use which appeared during the 1970s The first was the P4 the first pistol to conform to new German requirements for police sidearms Actually the P4 was the P38 or P1 with barrel cut back by 25mm 1 inch fitted with an automated firing pin safety and decockonly lever Early P4 pistols were actually made using P38 components including slides and thus were marked P38 IV instead of more common P4 Another less wellknown variation was the P38K Kurz for Short in German made for some special users such as the KSK an elite counterterror unit This was a P4 rather than original P38 with the barrel cut down at the front of the slide and it was intended for concealed carry The front sight was mounted on the slide unlike the fullsize model It must be noted that a similar model was produced in small numbers during WW2 for the Gestapo and other such organizations Wartime Kurz P38s differed from postwar version by having a slightly longer barrel with the front sight mounted on the barrel However the service life of police derivatives of the P38 was much shorter than of the military P1 most P4 pistols were declared obsolete and sold as surplus during the 1980s while the P1 served until 1995 The last commercial P38 pistol was manufactured in 2000 While P38 pistols were in some aspects revolutionary in design and concept their postwar P1 versions were less than popular in the Bundeswehr deserving the unofficial description of eight warning shots plus one aimed throw Also these pistols showed a typical German obsession for unnecessary overcomplication of design for example the P38 pistol had eleven springs mostly of very small size about twice that of the older P08 Luger pistol it replaced in service It also had plenty of small parts and pins that were easy to lose during full disassembly and a firing pin of intricate shape that easily broke The Walther P38 is shortrecoil operated lockedbreech pistol The barrel is locked to the slide using a wedgeshaped locking piece which can tilt up and down below the barrel while following the inclined surfaces on the frame When the barrel and slide are in battery the locking piece is in its upper position and its lugs securely lock the slide to the barrel Upon recoil the locking piece drops down and out of the engagement with the slide unlocking it and allowing it to recoil and complete the reloading cycle Because of the short slide the P38 has two captive return springs located on either side of the frame and inside the slide With time it was found that the aluminum frame developed cracks in the most highly stressed area where the locking piece and barrel were slamming against it on recoil so the frames of late production pistols were reinforced with the addition of a hexagonal crosspin made from steel The trigger is doubleaction with an exposed hammer and trigger bar the link between the trigger and sear unusually located outside of the frame at the right side The standard safety also acted as a decocker and was located at the left side of the slide On the P4 pistol the slide lever retained only the decock function and once pressed and released automatically returned to the fire position P4 pistols were also fitted with a firing pin block safety Magazines were singlestack with the magazine release located at the heel of the grip The sights were fixed P38 pistols were also fitted with a loaded chamber indicator in the form of a small pin that projected from the rear of the slide above the hammer when a cartridge was loaded in the chamber How to fieldstrip disassemble Walther P38 1 remove the magazine by pressing the magazine release button 2 check that the chamber is empty 3 pull the slide all the way back and lock it there with slide stop lever 4 turn the disassembly lever down and forwards located at the front of the frame on left side 5 while holding the slide release the slide stop lever and carefully ease the slide into battery then push it forward and out of the frame 6 turn the slide upside down and push forward the small pin at the base of the barrel this will unlock the barrel from the slide 7 pull the barrel out of the slide Reassemble in reverse order

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