![]() Ottow Neudamm Spezial – Katalog and other period catalogs advertising the Luger Carbine, click here. The post 1902 spelling is Selbstlade-Carabiner „Parabellum“. The new material provides further insights into the evolution of the first preproduction prototype hunting carbines that culminated in the finalized production design, circa 1902/3 Jagdkarabiner „Parabellum“ - Selbstlader or Hunting Carbine “Parabellum” - auto-loader. The subject article uses much of this excellent information presented by Kenyon and †Görtz/Sturgess, interspersed with additional information and theories presented in relation to the first detailed and documented, published review of one of the very first two-digit preproduction prototype Luger carbines. ![]() Although, due to a lack of original DWM factory documentation and of extant examples, especially of the very first preproduction two-digit serial numbered prototype carbines, the information presented is interspersed with an unavoidable amount of speculation and theories. On the author’s experience and observations gained over many years of collecting. All of this new information is supportive of the earlier Kenyon research, based The most recent and comprehensive information to date on the preproduction prototype hunting carbines is contained in two publications titled Pistole Parabellum ©2010 and The Borchardt and Luger Automatic Pistols © 2010 & 2011, both by †Görtz/Sturgess. Listed in chronological order are the documents. Army and President Roosevelt, dealing specifically with Roosevelt’s Luger hunting carbine. One of the most interesting aspects of the Kenyon research on the Teddy Roosevelt Luger carbine were the discovery of a series of several archival documents, i.e. While being written specifically about the Theodore Roosevelt Luger carbine, Kenyon’s efforts resulted in much additional data relating to the first, early two-digit serial numbered Luger carbines. More insights into the chronology of the early carbines were identified in a second, two-part article about the Teddy Roosevelt preproduction prototype Luger carbine in The Gun Report magazine December 2002 and In a section titled, The 1900 (?) Carbines, Kenyon discusses many aspects and features of the early carbines with the 11¾-inch long slim tapered barrel and the unusual wooden forearm retaining wedge. June 2002 Gun Report magazine titled Sorting out the Luger carbines – Part two. Luger: The Multi-National Pistol, wrote a very informative article in the It wasn’t until 2002 that Charles Kenyon, Jr., the author of the © 1969 classic publication titled Lugers At Random and the © 1991 publication titled They have a long 11¾-inch slim tapered barrels, early push-button stock lugs and experimental 1-3-5, five-position graduated rear link mounted adjustable tangent leaf sights. In the early Luger literature, there has been little written about the DWM circa 1900/01 two-digit serial numbered preproduction prototype hunting carbines. Close window Article created: Wednesday, 19 March 2015Īrticle last modified: Friday, 11 November 2016 Text Resize buttons
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