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Have a box of American Eagle to try, but one thing and another I haven't yet. It runs fine on Speer Gold Dot premium, but that's too expensive for everyday. It isn't happy with Magtech ammo one or two Failures to Eject in every magazine-full.

Yes, mine likes the ammo loaded a bit hot. The Wehrmacht also used the Ortgies pistol as a. The lug on the barrel is a very tight fit in the frame. The Ortgies pistol was adopted by the Hamburg Ordnungspolizei, the Reichswasserschutz, the Reichsfinanzverwaltung, the Berlin and other Prussian Schupo, the Prussian border guards, the Czech police, and the Finnish prison service where it saw service into the 1960РІР‚в„ўs and possibly later. The more spares I have, the less likely it is that I'll need them, is my theory.

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My spares kit for the gun has three, plus one guide from Numrich and two that I made on the lathe. I found one in a hardware store selection that works, though. 32ACP pistol?Р”Р„t last viewing, Numrich had firing pins and the guide. Maybe because nobody else there wanted a. All parts kits sold on this site do not include a receiver. They are parts kits, sold as-is and include everything pictured. First remove the magazine and make sure the pistol is not loaded. The most unusual feature is its takedown sequence. The pistol was designed by Heinrich Ortgies, said to have been a German by birth but who was a resident of Liege, Belgium, until about the close of World War I.The first prototypes are thought to have been made in Belgium in 191516. NOTE: Parts kits are NOT functioning firearms. OVERALL LENGTH 5.2 LENGTH OF MAGAZINE 2.9 A high quality pistol of blowback design. (In frustration I eventually drilled a 1/16' cross hole in it so I could insert a pin to hold it while I put the slide back on. The Ortgies pistols are unique in design, although inevitably they have some features in common with other automatic pistols. FURTHERMORE it is essential that the grip safety not be compressed while reassembling, which is next to impossible to do. If it slips, and I guarantee you it will, the spring and the guide will be fired across the room to fetch up in some invisible spot under the furniture. Getting it back together by the book involves compressing the spring and catching the rear of the spring guide in a shallow detent in the slide, which is chancy at best. Striker-fired and with a rear grip safety (that has to be manually reset after firing) the pistol was 6.41. As you lift the slide off the frame the mainspring will launch itself and the spring guide if you forgot to pull the trigger to relax it. The Ortgies pistol resembled the 1910 Browning but was slightly heavier and longer. Identification Slide addresses E-mail: The most in depth description of Ortgies is laid out in an article published in Gun Collectors Digest and written by Donald W. BRIEF: German Ortgies Vest Pocket Auto, Cal.

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I own several Ortgies pistols and none have a serial number above 141,000. 380 Pocket Pistol New/Used in Box Chrome Platted Blue 2 Button Safety. Ortgies himself was thought to have produced around 15,000 pistols under his own name using the HO momogram on the grip medallions (all in.32 ACP) and Deutsche Werke made perhaps another 225,000 in 3 calibers. Those Chermins must have had good eyes the sights are tiny.Р”В¬AUTION: The takedown of the gun is tricky, and reassembly trickier still. 32 Pocket Pistol New/Used in Box Chrome Platted Blue 2 Button Safety. Reading up, they were supposed to be a popular target gun during the interwar years. The guns were in large part a work program, creating export goods which could bring desperately needed hard currency into Germany to counteract the economic devastation of the Versailles treaty.I have a.

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In less than 5 full years (1919-1923), close to a half million of these guns were made, primarily by an industrial subsidiary of the German government. However, the most interesting part of the Ortgies story (in my opinion) is its production. 380 versions differ only in the easily-interchanged barrel РІР‚вЂњ even the magazines are marked for both calibers.

Mechanically, the Ortgies has a rather unusual grip safety mechanism that is quite different from what we expect to see today. The Ortgies is a pistol whose interested aspects are often overlooked on the assumption that it is just another identical.

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