Nominally adjustable through drifting and filing, the sights were usually considered adequate for short-range defensive use. The sights on the P1 hadn’t changed: a front blade and rear notch. There was a loaded-chamber indicator and the slide would lock back after the last round was fired, typical for most combat-style handguns. As was fairly common for European handguns, the magazine release was at the bottom of the mag well. It could be carried with the chamber loaded and the hammer down (using the de-cocking lever), so that with the safety off a long pull of the trigger would cock and then fire the gun.Īs noted in my other review, the gun also features a manual safety, as well as a slide-lock mechanism and take-down lever, all on the left side of the pistol. The P1 operated the same as the P38: it is a true double- and single-action gun. For all intents and purposes, both guns felt and shot much the same. Honestly, there really wasn’t much difference, except that the P1 was a bit lighter due to the aluminum frame (the P38 was all-steel). The Manurhin P1 compared to the German P38 I recently had a chance to shoot one, side-by-side with an original P38. And a number of these guns were imported to the US as they were retired from service by different police departments. From the early 1960s until the mid 80s the Manurhin P1 was available and widely used by police departments in West Germany. The biggest of these was a shift over to an aluminum alloy frame.
The factory was passed into the control of the French and under the new management the facility started operating under the name of Manurhin, but used Walther equipment and upheld its quality standards.Īnd so the P38 became the P1, made by Manurhin, with some minor post-war design changes (which I believe were the work of Walther engineers). Well, come the end of WWII, those weapons factories that hadn’t been destroyed during the conflict were shut down, sometimes with their equipment removed and shipped off, other times the entire factory placed under the control and management of one of the occupying powers – as was the case with the Walther facility, where the P38 was produced. As I noted in a previous review, the German P38 pistol was a very well made and very popular sidearm introduced during World War II as a replacement for the old P08 Luger.
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