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Hi, Johnwill,
My Borchardt is not in the greatest shape, but I didn't pay $16K for it, either. It does give one an idea of where Luger was coming from and what he had to work with.
It also gave me an understanding of why the Luger has such a slanted grip, and it is not because of human engineering.
The Borchardt spring pulls the toggle almost straight down. But when Luger moved the spring to the grip, he would have found out that the force moment of the spring (flat at the time) was more toward the front than downward if the grip was straight. So he had to slope the grip to get enough downward force to close the gun. He "accidentally" created one of the great gun grips, but the result was also a lot of problems with the magazine angle, which the Borchardt, with its straight magazine, did not have.
Jim
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