The Walther P.38 was in production from 1939 to 1945. Post war P1 grips were made of black colored plastic. Sheet metal grips were used for a time on pistols produced in France after the war, being called "Gray Ghosts" by collectors on the account of their distinctive parkerizing and sheet metal grips. Initial production P38 pistols were fitted with walnut grips, but these were later supplanted by Bakelite grips. The hinged locking piece assisted breechblock design provides good accuracy due to the in-line travel of the barrel and slide.ġ943 Mauser P.38 barrel showing locking block design. Two recoil springs on either side of the frame and below the slide, having been compressed by the slide's rearward movement, drive the slide forward, stripping a new round from the magazine, driving it into the breech and re-engaging the barrel ending its return travel with a fresh round chambered, hammer cocked and ready to repeat the process. Unlike most autopistols which eject empty cases to the right, the Walther P38 ejects empty cases to the left. The slide continues its rearward movement on the frame, ejecting the spent case and cocking the hammer before reaching the end of travel. When the pistol is fired, the barrel and slide recoil together, until the hinged locking piece drives down, disengaging the slide and arresting further rearward movement of the barrel. The moving-barrel mechanism is actuated by a wedge-shaped hinged locking piece underneath the breech. P38 made by Mauser, coded "byf 44" with matching presstoff and leather holster Besides a DA/SA trigger design similar to that of the earlier Walther PPKs the P38 features a visible and tactile loaded chamber indicator in the form of a metal rod that protrudes from the rear of the slide when a round is chambered. The firing mechanism extracts and ejects the first spent round, cocks the hammer, and chambers a fresh round for single-action operation with each subsequent shot – all features found in many modern day handguns. Pulling the trigger cocks the hammer before firing the first shot with double-action operation. The lever can stay on "safe", or if returned to "fire", the weapon remains safely "ready" with a long, double-action trigger pull for the first shot. The shooter could chamber a round, use the safety- decocking lever to safely lower the hammer without firing the round, and carry the weapon with a round chambered. The P38 was the first locked-breech pistol to use a double-action/single-action (DA/SA) trigger (the earlier double-action PPK was an unlocked blowback design, but the more powerful 9×19mm Parabellum round used in the P38 mandated a locked breech design). The P.38 was a cutting edge semi-automatic pistol design, which introduced technical features still used today in current commercial and military semi-automatic pistols, including the Beretta 92FS and its M9 sub-variant adopted by the United States military. 22 Long Rifle versions were also manufactured and sold. In addition to the 9×19mm Parabellum version, some 7.65×21mm Parabellum and some. 38 Super, but these were never mass-produced. Several experimental versions were later created in.
#Walther p1 kal code#
The third series pistols satisfactorily solved the previous problems for the Heer and mass production began in mid-1940, using Walther's military production identification code "480".
#Walther p1 kal serial#
Walther began manufacture at their plant in Zella-Mehlis and produced three series of "Test" pistols, designated by a "0" prefix to the serial number. The P38 concept was accepted by the German military in 1938 but production of prototype ("Test") pistols did not begin until late 1939. The first designs submitted to the German Army featured a locked breech and a hidden hammer, but the Heer ( German Army) requested that it 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) Carl Walther Waffenfabrik, Mauser Werke, Spreewerk
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