Fortunately or unfortunately I arrived in the frozen north in '99 so all of those are dewats. Long rifles and handguns are alive except for the two P08's and the PPK. You have good eyes
You also have excellent eyes! Either you want pew pew or you want original. Either way you have tradeoffs. Those TNW's are really messy to shoot and can be a bit of a swine to get shooting reliably. I have a GSG-44 for shooting pumpkins so I get that. But when the law says your Luger is a prohib because its 5mm too short and rebarrelling means handing the original part over forever, well I look for a nice #### and click dewat and spend all my real cash on P38's
Yeah really lucky on both of the Japs. The Type 99 is an original rubberised canvas material. The Type 38 is that terrible Japanese leather but its covered in kanji. The K43 is not a vopo but I have to say the mount is a repro. I'll pick up one sooner or later but the price of those things annoys me.
It takes a while but you get to know a few useful guys and the impossible becomes possible. I saw a Nambu at a show at the beginning of the year and I was walking up to buy it when a know-nothing stepped in front of me and bought it from under me! Damn I am too slow at times!
