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<\/p>\nThe Ortgies is a 1920-1927 production German pocket pistol that was very popular at the time and was imported in large quantities into the US.\u00a0 It is externally similar to the Colt pocket pistol but completely different internally.\u00a0 It is comfortable and pleasant to shoot.<\/p>\n
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In many ways it is an elegant design.\u00a0 It has no screws.\u00a0 It is nicely finished with no corners to catch on a pocket.\u00a0 As a 100 year old striker fired pistol it should never be carried with a round in the chamber.\u00a0 Here<\/a> is a very good article about these pistols, and another here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The main quirk of these pistols concerns the firing pin spring guide rod.\u00a0 Firstly, when you field strip one of these the guide rod launches itself (with or without the spring) out the back of the pistol.\u00a0 Field stripping instructions usually include an admonition to cover the back of the slide with a finger, disassemble in a plastic bag, or just to “take care” to not lose the guide rod.\u00a0 Secondly, assembly is difficult unless you know the “trick”.\u00a0 There is an assembly notch on the underside of the slide above the guide rod channel.\u00a0 To assemble, compress the guide rod and spring and push it up into the notch.\u00a0 Then you can replace the slide normally.\u00a0 This is best practiced a few times without the firing pin spring and guide rod as bobbling the slide installation will also launch the guide rod out the back.\u00a0 There are at least two different Ortgies guide rods.\u00a0 One is 0.842″ long which is too long to fit in the assembly notch of some pistols.\u00a0 Here is one that works in a fifth style 32ACP pistol which is the majority of production.<\/p>\n Note that it is important to insert this into the small end of the spring and insert the large end of the spring into the firing pin housing.\u00a0 Otherwise the pistol will jam.<\/p>\n One other note, do not attempt to remove the grip panels without comprehensive disassembly instructions<\/a>.\u00a0 There is a latch inside the magazine well which must be pressed in to release the back edge of the grip panels. The front of the panels are hooked into the frame.\u00a0 Great care must be taken as the wood engagement surfaces are very small and comparatively fragile.\u00a0 In general, the grips should not be routinely removed as this is unnecessary for cleaning and only necessary for a detail strip.<\/p>\n Please leave any comments using the post in my comments category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Ortgies is a 1920-1927 production German pocket pistol that was very popular at the time and was imported in large quantities into the US.\u00a0 It is externally similar to the Colt pocket pistol but completely different internally.\u00a0 It is comfortable and pleasant to shoot. In many ways it is an elegant design.\u00a0 It has … Continue reading “Ortgies”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ordnance","tag-ortgies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ORTGIES-ROD.png\")
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