I was going through my pistols and pulled out my Erma Werke 22LR Pistol.
I was curious if anyone else had anything from Erma Werke as well.
I had purchased this in 2016 without much research other than I had heard about some low end 22 Pistols from various post war production in Germany.
This was for sale at a GS I frequented on the eastern shore and at a low price. I took the chance on it and found that it was finicky on the type of ammo I had. I forgot to take notes but I do recall bringing 4 types of ammo and it only liked one of them. Seemed like some smoothing of the action would help with the stove pipes I was getting. I never did the work on it and just cleaned and oiled it an put it away. Initially, I did research that these were built and imported from 64-67 so in 2016 I knew it was either C&R or about to turn so it would be easier to sell if I did not want to keep it. Did some digging and turns out the date of MFG is part of the proof stamps in it. This one is 1965 so its older than I am.
These are cheap pot metal made and are no Colt Woodsman or even a Hi Standard.
A guy had started doing some research on Erma on Gunboards
http://forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?152438-Erma-information-wanted
Here are some other links to read on them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erma_Werke
https://mattwong92.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/review-erma-la-22-luger/
I was curious if anyone else had anything from Erma Werke as well.
I had purchased this in 2016 without much research other than I had heard about some low end 22 Pistols from various post war production in Germany.
This was for sale at a GS I frequented on the eastern shore and at a low price. I took the chance on it and found that it was finicky on the type of ammo I had. I forgot to take notes but I do recall bringing 4 types of ammo and it only liked one of them. Seemed like some smoothing of the action would help with the stove pipes I was getting. I never did the work on it and just cleaned and oiled it an put it away. Initially, I did research that these were built and imported from 64-67 so in 2016 I knew it was either C&R or about to turn so it would be easier to sell if I did not want to keep it. Did some digging and turns out the date of MFG is part of the proof stamps in it. This one is 1965 so its older than I am.
These are cheap pot metal made and are no Colt Woodsman or even a Hi Standard.
A guy had started doing some research on Erma on Gunboards
http://forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?152438-Erma-information-wanted
Here are some other links to read on them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erma_Werke
https://mattwong92.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/review-erma-la-22-luger/
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