collecting German P38

rlfcjf

December 05, 2004 06:58

Can someone explain why some P38's have the brown hand grip vs the black hand grip...

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  He Dog

  December 05, 2004 15:38

  Because they put brown grip slabs on some of them.

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  Der Gebirgsjager

  December 05, 2004 16:15

  You'll usually find the brown composite grips with the horizontal ribs on the all-steel World War II version, and the black plastic checkered version on the alloy post-W.W.II version as are those presently on the market. Finding them the other way around indicates that someone exchanged grips.

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  p3skyking

  December 05, 2004 22:41

  Some of my early ones (40-42) have the ribbed black grips while the later (43-45) ones are mostly the ribbed brown.
  
  As the war progressed, the German arms industry tried different composites to conserve resources.
  
  Buxton's or Still's books detail the changes.
  
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