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    WALTHER’S WARTIME WORKHORSE

    Dec 29, 2020 4 minutes

    Walther’s P. 38 was designed in 1938 as a replacement for the P08 Luger, and due to the gun’s reliable and robust design, production ended up going on for far longer than the end of the war. Luckily for airgun shooters, Umarex has come up with the Walther P38, a similarly reliable and robust BB-firing blowback replica that’s still very much in production.

    The P. 38 was made for the German armed forces during the war years, but production continued after the Second World War, first for the French, then for West German and South African military and police forces, who used the P38 and its later P1 and P4 variants.

    Umarex’s P38 is a well-balanced and good-looking pistol, and just like the 9x19mm Parabellum-firing original

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