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Precision machining at its finest.

The Krieghoff Luger in its high-tech case, itself something of a work of art.

When these are the most common repairs on guns in continuous service since 1900, you have a most excellent design.

THE NEW KRIEGHOFF

An enormous amount of research went into ensuring that the new Krieghoff Lugers were absolutely perfect continuations of the WWII production run. Krieghoff’s production drawings did not all survive the war intact but the Bavarian Main State Archives, Department 4, War Archives in Munich had the “Dimension Tables” for the P08. Original Krieghoff P-code pistols were carefully studied to ensure exact duplication of the technical details unique to the Krieghoff Luger. Precise duplicates of the original marking stamps such as the Krieghoff “sword/anchor logo” were made. Molds were made to produce duplicates of the original military brown bakelite grips and tooling produced to once more make the WWII Krieghoff PO8 magazine and aluminum magazine bottom. Original gun barrels were copied to make the correct land and groove pattern on the new barrels. This is unheard-of attention to technical detail in a recreation.