Refinished luger

[csa77]

I'm certain this is refinished and rebarreled but can anyone tell me what
This is? Swiss, German, civilian , maybe just a hodge-podge of everything?


Paid 900$ just wanted a range toy.


There is no toggle marking.

 

[Jim Watson]

Beats me.
No stock lug so it did not start out as a Navy or Artillery. I think the P08 Army got the lug around 1910, which covers most of them.

The 1939 Stoegers shows Lugers rebarrelled to 9mm but by then they were also proud of their new import 9mms.

 

[Col. Harrumph]

Do the numbers match? Deutcher Pistolen are festooned with numbers; I see a 315 under the barrel and a 65, I think, on the sideplate, so I guess not. My guess: put together from parts. Enjoy your shooter!

 

[csa77]

Yeah no number match, kinda glad it's a Franken gun. Shot it for the first time on fathersday .100 rounds no issues ,cycled amazingly well.

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

Good price for a nice shooter-grade P08.

Lugers are fun.

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

I found a chart indicating the crown-over-N is a post-1920 commercial proof mark. There's also no elevator sight relief cut on the receiver ring, so we know the upper was never assembled to an Artillery Model. No sideplate or magazine safety tends to indicate it wasn't used by the Weimar Police. No Waffenamts or struck-through force matched numbers would point to no Nazi or Russian capture service.

Hard to say what it is, but a few things we can be somewhat certain it wasn't.

 

[JohnKSa]

I'd say it's the perfect "shooter" Luger. I think you paid a good price and got exactly what you wanted--but nothing more. Wish a deal like that would fall into my lap!

 

[rangervoss]

It's very hard to tell from the distant pics, but from what I see, the edges and letterings are sharp. Usually those take a beating during a reblue. Are you sure it's been done?

 

[Jim Watson]

Well, it is mismatched and parts that would have been "straw color" before 1937 are blue.

 

[Kp321]

Looks like a typical mix-master Luger. If it shoots and cycles well, it’s a winner. My mix-master Luger is butt ugly but has the best trigger I have ever found on a Luger. It keeps me from being tempted to shoot my all matching 1916 dated DWM.

 

[Monac]

It could be an East German rework. I have one of those, and it has a thick black finish like csa77's third picture shows. Mine has the plastic grips that the East Germans used, but if I could get wood grips as nice as the ones on csa77's, I'd replace them too, at least for shooting. The East Germans made new magazines of good quality for these guns, with a marking like 0/1000 on them. They were blue with aluminum bottoms, and I think were stamped with the gun's serial number, or at least part of it.

PS - this is what the East German mags look like: https://stewartsmilitaryantiques.co...n-p08-luger-magazine-nr2559.23229.archive.htm

I guess the marking is 2/1001, not 0/1000