My First Luger-Pattern Pistol - Interarms Mauser

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Originally Posted by Vlim

Norm,

You will find that the Postwar Mauser Parabellum shares more features with the Swiss 06/29 than with the older German ones.

Even in the 1970s nobody could afford to build a marketable pre-1945 version of the luger. That is why the new Mauser design was based on the Swiss 1929 model, which was already a more cost effictive version to start with.

Vlim:

I've always questioned this assumption, as looking at the two pistols reveals only slight differences.

The fact that Mauser went cheap with the 06/29 design and not the WWII byf configuration, cost them the entire market.

Frankly, with original German Lugers selling here for just over $100.00 in the early 1970, was there a market for a new product in the first place. Obviously, the public thought not.

Though I have quite a collection of the Interarms Mausers, I really don't find them as appealing to shoot as the originals for several reasons, the chief of which is the grip safty and the thick grips.

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