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Help me get a Luger!
12/11/2009 2:47:56 PM
Hey guys,
I've always wanted a Luger since I was a little kid. However, in recent years the ones I have seen are too expensive for me.
I'm looking for a decent looking shooter; does this exist or am I up a creek?
Oh and if y'all got any good info on the guns, please post it.
Thanks y'all.
I've always wanted a Luger since I was a little kid. However, in recent years the ones I have seen are too expensive for me.
I'm looking for a decent looking shooter; does this exist or am I up a creek?
Oh and if y'all got any good info on the guns, please post it.
Thanks y'all.
12/11/2009 11:04:24 PM
Yeah, there's some decent shooters out there but these days they're gonna run $700-800 instead of the $450-500 I paid for mine.
I now have two Lugers, one a mil-surp East German release to the US in the 1980s & the other is a jen-u-wine WW2 bring-back from my great-uncle Herb. I've shot the mil-surp one but not my bring-back. In fact, I used my mil-surp for my qual portion for my CCW class.
Do NOT shoot "hot" ammo thru these! Shoot only normal FMJ in 115 or 124gr loads & you should have no issues. I also urge a replacement mag from mec-gar so as to have a proper mag spring tension. More jamming issues arise from bad mag springs than almost anything else, IMO.
Check Gun Broker, they had some for $700~ a while back. No clue if CDNN still offers them or not?
Sorry I wasn't more help!
I now have two Lugers, one a mil-surp East German release to the US in the 1980s & the other is a jen-u-wine WW2 bring-back from my great-uncle Herb. I've shot the mil-surp one but not my bring-back. In fact, I used my mil-surp for my qual portion for my CCW class.
Do NOT shoot "hot" ammo thru these! Shoot only normal FMJ in 115 or 124gr loads & you should have no issues. I also urge a replacement mag from mec-gar so as to have a proper mag spring tension. More jamming issues arise from bad mag springs than almost anything else, IMO.
Check Gun Broker, they had some for $700~ a while back. No clue if CDNN still offers them or not?
Sorry I wasn't more help!
12/13/2009 8:17:51 PM
Get you a time machine and go back to about any big gunshow in the mid to late 1990's. Could buy a shooter grade P08 Luger for $250-$500. I bought a DWM and a Mauser made Lugers for $325-$350 back then. Turned down a slick civilian 7.65mm DWM at $300.
The Lugers have done nothing but rise in price since!
The Lugers have done nothing but rise in price since!
12/16/2009 12:03:16 PM
Theres this shooter on gunbroker, item #03080730000140416778. It ends in less than a day, but it's under $515 now.
12/18/2009 9:24:47 AM
check with the Luger forumhttp://www.lugerforum.com You have to register but the members there sell shooter Lugers and collector Lugers at good prices. Check point Charlies and FGS are good places too!
12/31/2009 4:59:03 AM
Check prices at Simpsons LTD.( http://www.simpsonltd.com/ ). They are a little(?) high but they have a lot of different Lugers to to price check.
1/6/2010 4:28:05 PM
Thanks for the replies guys. I'll keep looking for 'em. Working with my college students income, It'll probably be a few years until I'll be able to pick one up unless it's an amazing deal.
1/18/2010 2:04:05 AM
Good luck. I got lucky about a year and half ago at a gunshow. Picked up a nice shooter for $700. Before that, the cheapest one I ever saw was $300 and had no bluing on it. Couldn't tell if it was chromed.
1/18/2010 7:02:33 PM
Originally Posted By samurai77:
Thanks for the replies guys. I'll keep looking for 'em. Working with my college students income, It'll probably be a few years until I'll be able to pick one up unless it's an amazing deal.
Thanks for the replies guys. I'll keep looking for 'em. Working with my college students income, It'll probably be a few years until I'll be able to pick one up unless it's an amazing deal.
Most shops have lay-a-way. Have them order you one after you find it on-line & pay it off over a period of time. I had to do this with my recent P7M13. No way I had $1200+ to spend at once!
