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Maybe mystery Astra 600

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Just bought a very nice 600.Serial is 1273x. Not in the nazi lot but close.What puzzles me is that most 600's have a reference to 9mm parabellum atop the slide running parallel to the rear sight groove.This one has only on the barrel PISTPATR 08 in the ejection port.Any known reason for the difference?:confused:
 
Wow I am going to have to dig out my big blue book of Astra but a quick suggestion would be that this pistol was sold on the commercial market.
Astra 400 9mm Largo pistols were also being sold on the commercial market at the same time.

Commercial Astra Model 400 pistols had the breech face redesigned to allow the use of either 9mm Largo or .38 acp cartridges interchangeably and were marked on the chamber .9m/m&.38 there is no reference to Largo on the chamber, I believe most consumers of the time were well aware the Model 400 was designed to use the longer 9mm Largo/.38 acp/9mm Steyr cartridges and not 9mm parabellum.
9mm Browning Long will also safely chamber and fire in my commercial Model 400 but I have to hand cycle the action, they don't have enough Oomph to cycle the gun.

I believe the commercial Model 600s may have been marked as PistPatron 08 to designate the pistol was in no way designed to operate with the longer 9mm Largo or Colt .38 acp cartridges and was specifically meant for only 9mm Parabellum dimension cartridges.HTH
 
That is a German cartridge designation, and the guns were probably intended for the German market. Some West German police had Astra 600's for a time after the war.

Some 600's were also made for Nazi Germany, but never delivered as the war ended. Might be opne of those. ??

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