Femaru “jhv43” Luftwaffe issued pistol with two matching magazines.

myenfield said:
I haven't looked closely at mine for quite some time, so I don't recall if the magazine matches or not. I do know that these are a very heavy built handgun and mine tends to shoot very accurately (if I do my part). My biggest complaint is the trigger pull. While I haven't measured it, it feels like somewhere in the neigbourhood of 500 lbs!

Regarding the decision to create the entire 12.6 category, you can thank Allen Rock and his band of merry Liberal idiots. I attended a meeting with him where he wanted to get the input of "stakeholders" before finalizing the laws. At the start of the meeting he told everyone that he felt short barreled or 25/32 calibre pistols had no collector's value, were not accurate enough for target shooting, and that he felt they should be prohibited. After a couple of hours of gun owners politely pointing out endless examples of why he was wrong, he concluded the meeting by saying that he believed that short barreled or 25/32 calibre pistols had no collector's value and were not accurate, therefore they should be prohibited.

Other than the obvious criminal charge, it would have been far more effective (and satisfying) to have punched him in the face than to try convincing him of anything. Calling that man a tool is giving tools a bad name. At least they have a use.[/QUOTE


And now rock is in charge of educating our next generation as head of a university in Ontario I think. I heard him on the radio yesterday and Allmost spit at the mention of his name.
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Rifleman1911 said:
And now rock is in charge of educating our next generation as head of a university in Ontario I think. I heard him on the radio yesterday and Allmost spit at the mention of his name.
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University of Ottawa. I hear of him occasionally too, living in this town. I just don't listen; he's a sociopath - people not caring about what he has to say is probably his biggest pet peeve.
 
gaff,

You will see some nice examples of the tropical leather and canvas Femaru holsters.
(I really like that version of Femaru holster.)

Mark lives in Boston and I have communicated with him over several years on various pistol/magazine/grip issues.

He is a very knowledgeable collector----probably one of the most savvy P.38 fellows around.
He is also into Nambus and various other German pocket pistols----HScs and Mauser Model 1934s etc.
Mark is a master of photo merge photography and has a serious photo set up.

NOTE:
If anyone has questions regarding correct magazines or grips for P.38s---I think you will find your answers on Mark's web site.
 
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here are the pic , through in a couple more sweeties. as you will see the flap has come off the holster at the stitching.

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gaff,

Thanks for posting your photos.
If you still have the flap for your Femaru holster----Jerry Burney might be able to help you put it back together.

Jerry Burney
636 Scenic Lane
Howard, CO 81233
lugerholsterrepair@earthlink.net
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Mark recently posted this on another forum.
For they that may be interested.

George---the vet.


BROWNING HIGH-POWER BRING BACK STORY.

It is not very often that I have a chance to talk to our brave WWII vets about their war experience, most won't talk about it at all.

Several weeks ago a friend of mine has a friend who employs a WWII vet. The gentleman is 90 years old and his name is George.

George wanted to part with his gun collection because he was getting older and could use some extra money. One of the items that was offered to me was a Browning High Power with capture papers that he brought back from the war.

We agreed on a price and I asked if George would mind being interviewed about his experience in WWII. He didn't think George was going to talk much about the war but I did get a great interview from him that I recorded with a quality camera. The interview is only about 5-6 minutes long but it is George speaking to the camera about his experiences.

I asked him about the capture of the Browning and unlike most of the other vets I have spoken to, he captured the gun while in combat!

George was drafted out of high school in 1943 and joined the combat engineers after landing on Omaha beach in August of 1944. The beach was cleared but they pushed into enemy territory building pontoon bridges.

His exact words are the following when I asked him about the capture of the Browning.

"We had a skirmish and there was a Kraut laying down on the ground, he was all done in so I picked it off him".

He told me he afraid to carry it after the battle because if he was captured by the Germans he would be shot, so he stashed it in a tool box.

George was then assigned to the 68th Tank Battalion and was in the Battle of the Bulge. He met and had words with George Patton who must have yelled at him about something.

He told me he was happy he didn't get frost bite and was wounded slightly by shrapnel at the Bulge but never put in for the Purple Heart since he was glad he just survived.

George also told me he was at the Walther factory but they didn't allow him to take any guns (I think it was the Walther factory since he said it was a large factory with crates of guns when he was in Germany)

I'll try to get another on camera interview with him soon but for now here is George with his captured Browning.

Mark
 
gaff,

Your new High Power and my High Power may be kissing cousins.

Both are ‘a’ block pistols your s/n is 66464a---mine is s/n 61741a.

I was told that my pistol was probably manufactured in approx. August 1943.

Your pistol.



My pistol.



Your holster markings.



My holster markings.



Magazine markings.





‘dla’ is the manufacturer's code code for Karl Barth, Militaereffekten-Fabrik Waldbrol/Rhineland.
WaA195.

 
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