My first centerfire pistol was a Luger P08, 1936 S/42.
I shot it with Canadian surplus 9mm, 43 date, noncorrosive, in those little brown 64 round boxes.
I don't know the specs, but it functioned the gun reliably and shot as accurately as a young twerp like me could hold. When that dried up, I reluctantly paid more for Remington. Operation was erratic. The gun was shelved and I eventually sold it to a collector.
Nowadays, I would undertake to handload for it.
A friend has one of those 1923 Finnish Lugers with Tikka 9mm barrel. It runs fine on my IDPA subsonics, which is certainly not the "hot" ammo of Luger Urban Legend. It is not reliable with anything else tried, hot or mild. Strange.
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