P38 Serial Numbers Spreewerke Wiki
I know very little about these. My Godfather, who is 89, called me this week-end and wants me to come pick up his WW2 Walther P.38. I offered to buy it, he'll have nothing of it nor will his lovely 3rd wife. He knows my passion for firearms and this is his baby. I don't care about the value, just need some info of 'what to look for' like special markings, matching numbers, etc.
I have done a little research on how to field strip. I want to share information about this pistol with him that he may or may not already know. I'll be traveling to Spokane in 2 weeks to pick it up and spend the week-end with him and his (3rd) wife 35 years his junior. Norm was a writer his whole life, newspapers in Minnesota back in his home town (where I was born), then Weyerhauser publications, eventually freelance for Sports Afield, Field and Stream, Outdoor Life.
He wrote two books on deer hunting. He participated in WW2 but in the end days on a Navy supply ship. Norm and I communicate monthly by mail for the past 15 years since he moved from Seattle to Spokane WA. Photo of the old Swede and I last fall when I visited.
Walther P-38 Pistol By LTC Joel Johnston (Ret), US Army Ordnance Corps P-38 BYF 44 (Mauser 1944). Spreewerke: 1-9500z: Spreewerke of Spandau, Berlin. No date of manufacture. FN frame adds 100%: CVQ. Non-matching refers to the serial numbers. On most wartime German guns, the last two digits of the receiver serial number is stamped on.
I brought my SKS with last fall because he'd never seen one. This guy has been a staunch supporter of the 2nd and involved in the NRA for the better part of 80 years. One of the 'Good Guys!' Click to expand.A while back I lucked into a '79 vintage P1 - alloy frame P-38 - along with four mags and holster. While examining the pistol I noted that the serrations on the left side of the slide extended forward of the safety's milled-out portion - in other words serrations on both sides of the safety, and there was a hexagonal 'plug' traversing the frame in the area just below the barrel's lock. I've handled a lot of P-38s over the years - including a few P1s, but had never seen the different slide serration or the 'plug'.
Did some research and found that my P1 has a somewhat beefed up slide, and the 'plug' is intended to strengthen the frame and prevent stress cracks from developing in the locking area. With that in mind I feed it 115gr FMJs - no +Ps.
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P1 ist a modification of P38. P38 after WWII is the commercial name of this gun, P1 the military name. On yours P38, that's normal by manufacturing from Walther, after WWII in Ulm, but the technical type is a P1, manufactured 1957 - 2004 in Ulm.