They were shipped with 2 matching magazines and a holster usually marked with the year made but yours could have been marked 43 or 44 because it's an early in the year one and they grabbed what ever was in the bin when packing them.
There should be no other stampings or numbers on it.
If that's a matching magazine it should have the eagle over 135 on the spine with p38v just over the base on the left side. Exactly as it should be, outstanding find. The marking under the number on the block is a lower case cursive P in German script. There are 4 numbered parts slide, block, barrel and frame and all 4 of yours match. BillĬlick to expand.Yes that is the locking block. The 3 stampings on the right side of the slide are an assembly inspection, a nitro proof test stamp and a firing proof.īest of luck with and shoot it sparingly because if it breaks it can never be original again. If it matches you have hit the trifecta and have a fully matching pistol. This should have the same serial number as the slide and the barrel.
Speaking of the locking block when you remove the slide there will be a cast steel block under the chamber area of the barrel. Your pistol was designed to use 124gr ammo as that was the parabellum standard. Be sure to NEVER use +P ammo in it and keep your bullet weight to 115 or 124 grs. They can have a tendency to crack their slides and the locking block inside which will ruin the collectability. Be aware there are several weak points in these pistols due to the need for speed when they made. Walther, Mauser and Spreewerk which became CZ after the war. There were 3 manufactures of P38's in WWII. After the first 10,000 they went to a letter suffix, A next 10k B and so on. All left over stamped parts were moved over to the next year until they ran out nothing was wasted.
Your suffix is P which means your pistol was made in Jan 1944. You have a 3 digit serial number which is rare. Which means your pistol was made by Mauser in 1944. BYF was the code the Nazi's gave to Mauserwerk in Obendorf Germany.
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