Desert Fox
Handloader
- Aug 14, 2006
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I finally found the history and origin of my Walther P-38. Thanks to Orv Reichert at P-38 Collectors Forum. Great sight for info on these gun. If you own one, this is the place to be for reference. Orv also registered my gun as part of his continuing work on cataloging and documenting of P-38 in existence.
My gun turned out to be, as collectors would label it, a shooter, since it has been re-blued and polished even though all the parts serial number matched. My gun is worth between 400 to 500 dollars. It was made at Carl Walther's Zella Mehlis Factory in Thuringia, Germany in 1942 - at the height of World War II... one of the 120,000 P-38 made that year for the Nazi war machine. The gun is in excellent shape and shoots good with any 9MM round I feed on it. My piece of history and it wont be sold.
Regards,
DF
My gun turned out to be, as collectors would label it, a shooter, since it has been re-blued and polished even though all the parts serial number matched. My gun is worth between 400 to 500 dollars. It was made at Carl Walther's Zella Mehlis Factory in Thuringia, Germany in 1942 - at the height of World War II... one of the 120,000 P-38 made that year for the Nazi war machine. The gun is in excellent shape and shoots good with any 9MM round I feed on it. My piece of history and it wont be sold.
Regards,
DF
