The first designs was submitted to the German Army and featured a locked breech and a hidden hammer, but the Army requested that it should be redesigned with an external hammer. It was intended to replace the costly Luger P08, the production of which was scheduled to end in 1942. The Walther P38 (originally written Walther P.38) is a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol that was developed by Carl Walther GmbH as the service pistol of the Wehrmacht at the beginning of World War II. Short recoil, hinged locking piece assisted breechblockġ,050 ft/s (320 m/s) Nothing can be taken for granted each gun must be carefully examined.Carl Walther Waffenfabrik, Mauser Werke, Spreewerk The bottom line is that, where s/ns are concerned, a knowledge of when certain manufacturing changes were made is vital. Are we talking about the whole gun, or some specific portion of it? Or the date of original manufacture, or when rebuilt, or when some major component was manufactured? With some difficulty rebuild markings can be deciphered and the replaced parts more or less dated, but it can be a puzzle, and with some guns rebuilt more than once, it is practically meaningless, as sometimes the only thing left that is original is the s/n.
If one wants to know when "it" was "manufactured" one first must define terms. The problem arises in the ex-Bundeswehr guns, many of which were rebuilt, with major parts such as barrels, slides or even frames with anachronous characteristics replaced, and renumbered to match. HOWEVER, this is meaningful only on guns believed to be original. Often the slide is actually date-stamped, which helps.
A few steel-framed guns were in the s/n 500,000 range. Generally speaking, and with some exceptions, it is pretty straightforward to correlate postwar P38 serial numbers with the date of manufacture, which began in 1957 s/n 1001 and ended in the early 1990s around s/n 475,000.
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