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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. 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.
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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.