No way can it move forward the striker spring is pushing back on it very hard. If the striker is cocked, pressing the takedown stud lets the grip safety move back under pressure from the striker spring. Best done during the draw, and not combined with trigger pull like a 1911. It does take a determined squeeze on the grip to release the safety. If it were easy to twist out, the accuracy would certainly suffer. The barrel I'm sure is intended to be a very tight fit in it's seat, not intended to be taken down. Do you think yours was originally plated, too? Mine was plated, and retains only about 60% of the plating. Happily, almost all of the crud came out and the bore looks quite good. But I attacked it with bore cleaner and a stainless steel bore brush (something I almost never do since it's a bit rough on the bore). I thought the barrel was an almost total loss it looked so corroded. I flushed out the penetrating oil and gunk and oiled the necessary parts using a good gun oil. I soaked it for a couple days in penetrating oil before it operated more smoothly. All the moving parts were either frozen or super stiff. Upon examination, I also don't think the pistol was cleaned in a very long time. Recoil is snappy, at least with my loads. The first round needed a tap on the back of the slide to fully chamber the other 7 worked just fine. After a match at the range, I took a moment to function test the pistol. I'm looking to see if I can remedy the scratchy part. The trigger pull is not horribly heavy, but it is looong and a bit scratchy, especially if you are accustomed to a match 1911. But, if you push the takedown button, the grip safety snaps forward and you can fire the pistol all you want. First, there's no way for any reasonable grip to depress it far enough to fire the pistol. The grip safety (there is no other safety) is a bit odd. The grips, which are dovetailed into the frame at the front, then can be carefully lifted out from the back. The grips have an odd attaching mechanism that is located on the inside back of the magazine well and that must be pressed (with a screwdriver or similar implement). I suspect it is going to take quite a soaking with Kroil. Considering that nothing moved when I first got the pistol, I have not yet tried removing the barrel. It is striker-fired and disassembles by drawing the slide back a small amount, pressing the takedown button (rear of frame in first image), and lifting the back of the slide up and moving it forward and off the frame.Īccording to the disassembly instructions, the barrel can be removed by rotating it to the left and out of its slot.
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380 by finding a barrel and installing it.įortunately, one of my old firearms disassembly/assembly manuals has a section for the Ortgies otherwise I may well have damaged something (primarily the grips). So, unless the magazines changed, it might be possible to convert the pistol to.
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In Ohio, this did the finish no good, although it's not as bad as I had feared.Ī couple sources say that the magazines for the first series of pistols were marked as being correct for both. To the best of my wife's knowledge, the pistol has not been fired in 40-50 years being apparently just put into various filing cabinets and dresser drawers and ignored. The pistol probably was not carried along in either war. My wife's dad inherited it from his dad, who got it from his uncle who had fought in Germany in both WWI and WWII. It has been in the family more than 50 years, being passed along from member to member. This one is in the 77,000 range, so I'm guesstimating that it was made around 1921-22. Only an estimated 154,000 (one source) to 250,000 (another source) pistols were made, in calibers 6.35, 7.65 (.32ACP) and 9mm Kurz (.380ACP). Another source said the pistol may have been made primarily for export to generate an income flow into a Germany that even then was having significant financial difficulties. Also, it was never adopted by any military, something that usually leads to more interest and information. One source said other sources indicate new (manufactured but not sold) pistols were sold for some time after manufacture ended, perhaps into the early 1930s. Information about the Ortgies is rather sparse and in some cases, contradictory, perhaps because they were made only in the 5 or 7 years from 1919 to 1924 or 1926. My wife put it in a storage unit with a bunch of other stuff, where it has sat until she and youngest son brought it home via the Uhaul into which the storage units had been emptied after her mom died. 32ACP pistol was discovered in my wife's dad's filing cabinet when she was working to help her mother clear her house and sell it so she could move into the assisted living community almost seven years ago.