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You really can’t have a Luger’s magazine spring too strong. American gun designer Max Atchisson once managed to get a spring in a Luger magazine so powerful that even with a loading tool he could only load five rounds. That gun was unjammable, cycling the hottest loads effortlessly. British Best Quality gun-maker Giles Whittome once put one coil spring inside another in a Luger magazine, resulting in a magazine that was a beast to load but effortlessly cycled the hot “For Submachinegun Use Only” British Sterling SMG ammo at over 1400 fps. The need for a powerful magazine spring is the reason that the WWI Luger magazines with their wooden bottoms were later replaced with extruded magazines with aluminum bottoms that could accomodate stronger springs for greater reliability. Overall cartridge length is important also. The steep angle of the magazine is only 1.070 inches front to back, which dictates a maximum overall cartridge length of 1.180 inches with very little under that acceptable.