The pistol shown here is a very early production from 1974. Only 2600 pistols were produced and the serial numbers are all within the range of 500000 – 502600. Production of the P38-k started in 1974 and continued up to 1981.
No external safety is present on the P38k and the P4. The “lever” on the P38k and the P4 are decocking levers only. The “safety lever” of the P38 is bifunctional (1) it is used as a safey and (2) it is a decocking lever. However, the P38k is in fact comparable to a Walther P4 platform. On first sight the P38k also looks like a P38 with a shorter barrel. The model designation P38-k suggests that the pistol is a P38 with a shorter barrel. The “K” is an abbreviation for the German word Kurz which translates to “short”. Also gone were the lined Bakelite grips, replaced by black plastic panels with a pebbled texture.One of the most interesting Walther pistols is the P38-K. Using an aluminum frame, it was somewhat lighter. In 1956, Walther introduced an updated P-38, adopted by the West German police and military as the P1.
This would include short-barreled P-38K variants, curious long-barreled Lang models, and the reinforced P-38 II. Within a few years, they were making the iconic P-38 once again– this time with their traditional banner logos. This led to the production in France by Manurhin which we won’t get into here.įor Carl Walther, they would rebuild in Ulm, West Germany in 1953. The three wartime P-38s makers all lost their factories during the conflict. Notably, the Russians still have thousands in arsenal storage although they gave away crate loads as an aid to budding Communist regimes around the world during the Cold War. Servicemen to America as trophies and were impounded by Allied forces. With such a huge glut of guns surrendered in 1945, thousands were brought back both by U.S. In all, over a million P-38s were produced in wartime Germany for both military and police issue. The pistol also has ribbed phenolic AEG Grips, which are correct to period Mauser-made P38s. To put this into historical perspective, this is just after the famous D-Day invasion in Normandy. This pistol’s “byf 44” code, “WaA145” Waffenamt inspector’s marks and 7168w serial number puts its manufacture about July 1944. Mauser made P-38s at their facility in Oberndorf am Neckar in 1942 under a variety of manufacturer’s codes.
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