Luger Carbine (Erfurt)

[Ron Wood]

I just looked at the picture and I am impressed. Your father did well for his case of beer! The carbine is the product of a fairly talented gunsmith. It is a total fabrication. The rear toggle link is from a 1900 model that has been married up with the forward toggle link and breechblock of an Erfurt military, not an easy task. The rear sight is not from an artillery, but one that has been fabricated from scratch. The front sight may have been hand made or adapted from some other firearm. I can't tell from the photo the origin of the frame, but one can assume from the lack of a grip safety that it is not an original carbine with the forearm attachment, so that entails a bit of skill to create that attachment. Does the barrel have a lug that acts upon an auxiliary recoil spring in the wooden forearm? If so, that is one more nifty achievement by that unknown gunsmith. What you have is what amounts to a custom Luger, and I would really like to see some additional detailed photos of the rear sight, the thumb safety, and the forearm attachment wedge and escutcheon. Also, given that it has a 1900 rear toggle link, does it have an operable toggle lock in the right toggle knob with the corresponding catch on the frame? It is not a â??collectorâ?� carbine, but it is one slick piece of machinery!!

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