Romanian Steyr Hahn

[14delta]

I recently picked up a Steyr Hahn in an online auction, I knew it wasn't a beauty queen when I bought it but since I just wanted a shooter that was OK.
On receiving it and doing a closer inspection I found that I could just make out the top of a crown and an M----2 on the slide and on the other side on the frame I found the crowned eagle inspection mark so I knew I had a Romanian contract Mle1912 Steyr Hahn with a ground off crown.
Every thing I had read about 9mm Steyr said it had a .355 bore so I loaded up some 9mm steyr cases with .356 cast bullets and found they would'nt go into the chamber or for that matter come out of the magazine when the release was pushed, I slugged the bore and it turned out to be
.353, I resized some of my bullets to .354 and loaded them up and found they chambered and would come out of the magazine. I shot the pistol on Saturday and it shot just fine with the smaller bullet loads.
This got me to wondering if the Romanians had a different specification for their barrels than the Austrians, This might be the unanserable question but I'd sure like to know.
14delta

[saki302]

Just something to check- make sure the barrel isn't a nazi '08' barrel, chambered in 9mm Luger!
If it is, you can just shoot standard 9mm out of it.

I used to own a nazi converted Stayr Hahn, the 9mm Luger conversion is simply a drop-in barrel.

Mine tossed casings right at the base of my neck above the shirt collar. Not very pleasant to shoot

-Dave

[14delta]

That was one of the first things I looked for, I tried a 9mm para round in the chamber and it would'nt go all the way in, I measured chamber depth and it's correct for 9mm steyr. The barrel is a mismatch but it's only about fifty numbers off from the frame and it has the crowned eagle acceptance mark so it's romanian also.
I was thinking possibly the Romanians had a smaller bore to keep any captured guns from being used with the more readily available Austrian ammo.
It seems paranoid but a lot of strange idea's were in practice in the pre WWI eastern europe.
Willy B'