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Old 06-22-2022, 08:45 PM   #3
Fred Brackin
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Default Re: Top Handgun of the early WWI era?

First you pick cartridge. You've mostly got the .45 ACP and the 9mm Parabellum. There are other usable cartiridges but they've either very similar to one of the two above. A warning to take to heart is that you will be choosing from FMJs only. Even if you custom make HPs they won't feed reliably in commercial guns and they won't expand reliably either.

9mm Parabellum ammo might not be commonly available for comercial sale.

Then you pick gun and the M1911 is a very strong contender. My information says that the Luger's complicated toggle bolt mechanism does jam more often and if HANS said the same in every applicable Gurps product I'd take that as close enough.

There are some powerful chamberings in the Mauser C96 in this period including 9mm Parabellum after the War starts. Never sold commercially but that shouldn't stop a perfectionist. If leglaity is an issue there was a 9mm Bergman-Bayard with equivalent stats to the 9mm Parabellum.

You would want to modify the C96 to take detachable magazines instead of relying on stripper clips but that would be pretty straight forward and was sometimes done int h period.

There is jsut on alternative possibility in the revolver line up. If you were shopping from Gurps Adventure Guns you could get a Colt New Service Target revolver in .45 Long Colt w/ ACC 3 and 3D-1 P+ damage.
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