New to me Luger

[tokguy]

If the CFO's feel that they are ready to bestow their blessing on me, this will be wandering my way soon.


Interweb says it's a 1941 Mauser manufactured unit.
I've been reading 'The Return of the Krieghoff Luger' by Jim Dickson and it's got some pretty cool history and likes / dislikes of the Luger.
He claims 4.1 grains of Red Dot behind a 115 grain bullet for 997 fps or 3.9 grains behind a 124 grain bullet for 1025 fps; winchester standard primers too...are the ticket for an average Luger. Luger's like a "slow burning curve and a slower push resulting in a slower cyclic time to allow proper feeding and reliability" Direct quote from JD there
If anyone out there has anything constructive to add, please chime in.

Thanking the original owner for the pictures by the way; thanks Vince

 

[CanadianAR]

Nice addition.

Is that the minimum length barrel for restricted classification?

 

[tokguy]

No, it's an 8" bbl. Which makes it close to Artillery Luger spec's, minus the cool sight, shoulder stock and snail mag of course.

 

[smellie]

With a tube that heavy and that long, it well could be just scary accurate.

Point that a lot of guys miss: Lugers do not have a mushy trigger. When properly tuned, the trigger is supposed to be a standard double-pull just like on a Ross or a Lee-Enfield or a Mauser. With the Trigger forming a bell-crank lever and the Side-plate Arm forming another which works with it, there is lots of room for slack. The actual Sear is in the Upper Receiver and its contact with the Bent of the Striker often can respond very well to the attentions of a good stone and a drop of oil.

With that weight of Barrel, this one may require a slightly heavier loading; that is a lot of iron to push backward smartly enough to break that Toggle properly.

Most important point of all: do have fun!

Right nice Toy!

 

[tokguy]

Interweb will tell me most likely; but it appears to be equipped with an point for attaching the shoulder stock. On the rarity level is this an exceptional rare unit or not so much so?

 

[ChiliDawg]

All Lugers except for a few early years have the stock lug. My Lugers are very picky about ammo. If you load your own, load them to 1.169 OAL otherwise they will jam up in the magazine.

Have fun with your Luger

 

[laminated]

Its sweet, I have a regular barreled one. doesn't reset the toggle 100% though on most ammo, I'd like to do some trigger work to it too

 

[tokguy]

My trigger is the stereotypical mushy Luger one too. When they are good, they are OK...but when they are bad...make a Cooey seem crisp.

 

[Nabs]

My 1914 Luger likes S+B ammo the best.

Welcome to the Luger club .

 

[silverfoxdj]

Beauty congrats

 

[HIGHRPM]

Dam SWEET, congrats !