Gun Model Lookup By Serial On All

The Firestar Plus is the M243, where adding 200 to the M43 must mean super version or something to the Star engineering department.

Especially for the older pistols, there are just a few tips you need to know to almost always find the correct model of your gun.

Kind of like Inc.

Corp. in the US. The right place to find all older Star pistol model numbers is on the butt, as seen in the illustrations below and photo to the right.

On the flat plate on the bottom of the gun, just rear of where the magazine is inserted, look for a letter, set of letters or a word.

Any following letters are modifications to (variants of) the base gun.

Note that most series also have variants that are not differentiated by a letter code change.

I know of only some of the definitions; I and N mean a caliber change from the basic version, S means that they are updated to include a magazine safety and K means an aluminum frame.

There are others as well, but some have various meanings, such as D where on the PD it seems to mean small, and on the MD it means fully-automatic.

These are the Super (linkless, quick-takedown lever) versions of a number of models.

I know of the Super designation appearing alone on model A and B pistols, but it can be on others as well.

Use caliber and other details of the gun to determine your model if this is the case.

This used to be rare, but is increasingly common as old stocks are cleared out.

These are all the year coded, Spanish government issue pistols, like the Model 1922 and Model 1940.

Some will clearly be these, as they will carry appropriate crests, or military acceptance stamps.

Models A and B, for example, are confusingly similar, but are (apparently) differentiated by caliber.

Some are not at all clear, but the ones I know are listed here.

Patronen 08 is a way of saying the cartridges that fit in the model 1908 pistol.

The Pistol 08 is the Luger, and more recently the cartridge that fits it is called the 9 mm Luger, or Parabellum.

Up thru the 50s at least, a number of Stars in 9 mm had the chamber hoods stamped P08 or something similar.

Gun Model Lookup By Serial On All

The German-issued Star Pistols were only made from 1942-44, should have the last three digits of the serial on all major components, and may have German Army andor Nazi proofmarks.

Any brand names (e.g.

Firestar Plus) are on the slide and any listed model numbers are on the right side of the frame above the grip panels.

The Megastar, for example, is the Model 50, but is more or less invariably sold as the Model Megastar.

I have no idea what happened to the first 27 or to many of the numbers in between.

Some are clearly also just chosen for marketing needs, like the.45 ACP caliber Firestar M45.

Gun Model Lookup By Serial Number