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Sometimes the Gun Gods smile on you. 1917 Luger. All matching.

PleasantValley

PleasantValley

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Might someone of the membership know something about this pistol? I know Luger collectors are fanatical about them and seem to know about every minor detail. Would you please share your knowledge if you know. The internet is full of a lot of misinformation.

I always kept a little in the budget for just this particular instance.
I told the Gun Gods I enjoy German martial weapons, but hate swastikas being on them.
Once i was rewarded by them with a P-38 made in 1962, no paper.

Then I must have done something right because i stumbled onto this jewel in an obscure shop downtown Tyler.
An ERFURT 1917 German Luger with a wood magazine base. I have rarely even seen any Lugers in gun shops, much less Imperial German Lugers with the wood magazine base. needless to say, I snagged it up for what I consider to be a bit much, but probably in line with prices of today.
It even has the slot in the bacl for the shoulder stock, though I am not sure of the legalities of that.

However, when I got home and started looking, I found others in not near as good condition for much more than I paid.
It set me back $1500, and I may have gotten screwed, but I still have it.

I think this means I will start selling off some other guns to thin the heard out.

Pics or it did not happen? OK...

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A few more pics. I printed out some gouge on the proof marks.

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There are so many beautiful things in the world, why collect tools of death?
 
Please tell us that ain’t the carport floor.
 
How did you get it? My grandpa had one he took from an actual Nazi during WWII. My uncle has it now. I have never seen it for myself, but my dad said it still works.
 
What do I know about Lugers?

Well, Mick Jagger sang "with a luger in his hand" in...rm... that song about waiting patiently, lying on the floor. Something on Beggar's Banquet
 
Great find, congratulations!!!

But take my advice guns and fly rods are for buying not selling, you will always regret losing a loved one...
 
SheWolf said:
How did you get it? My grandpa had one he took from an actual Nazi during WWII. My uncle has it now. I have never seen it for myself, but my dad said it still works.
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I bought it in a gun shop in Tyler today.

I am a student of military history.
That evolved into my hobby of collecting old military firearms and weapons.
Once you hold history in your hand it is easier to understand it.

Owning and firing the rifles used by various countries tells me a whole lot about why one country was victorious over another, or why one country survived IN SPITE OF their crappy arms.

This Luger is made like a precision Swiss watch, but our own .45 was better and more reliable in the filth of the trenches.
Still, they are prized by collectors because they are so "El Primo".
 
You’re lucky it’s in that nice of shape.
 
PleasantValley said:
...actually I was kinda shocked at how nice a shape it was in.
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Brings back fond memories of when their rifles went for 40 and their machine guns went for 600.
 
Tom Horn said:
Brings back fond memories of when their rifles went for 40 and their machine guns went for 600.
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Heck, even when my eldest son was growing up I got him a .303 Mk 3 for only $80.
...and some recently found ammo in Ireland for $200 a 500 round case.

Such is the fickle world of MILSURP.
here cheap and now, tomorrow gone forever.
 
First, nice piece. There was a restaurant I use to frequent that had a who wall case with various lugers. The ceiling also had various German rifles as hanging overhead like a canopy. Always loved that place.

Don't know much about them admittedly, but that I would love to have 1 or 40 of them.


Sell your house

Sell your car

Sell your wife

Never sell your guns.
 
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