Simson followed me home

Mister Sunshine · 09-11-2016, 04:48 PM

I bought a Simson & CO Luger in a gun shop in 1959, the price was a whopping $42. I took the pistol on vacation to Missouri the next year. My Brother, Father and I went down into one of those abandoned limestone pits to do some target shooting. There are many such pits around Cape Girardeau, Mo. I had brought along some new factory 9MM ammo. While the pistol was very accurate, even a distance, it would balk and jam every few rounds. I was disappointed to put it mildly. I had wanted a Luger since I was a boy during WWII and watched all those war pictures with spies carrying and shooting Lugers. Now I had one and it didn't work. Very upsetting. I was on my way back to California and leaving town I passed a gun shop, went in and traded my Luger for a 22 revolver. Shortly after returning home, I was reading a gun magazine. In the question & answer section a reader had asked about the same problem I had experienced. The expert wrote that it was a common occurrence with American ammo because it was downloaded due to the varying quality of the many different pistols being brought back from Europe. It made me sick. That is my first sad Luger story. Stay tuned, I have more.

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09-11-2016, 04:48 PM	#5
Mister Sunshine User Join Date: Sep 2016 Location: Cherry Valley, Ca. Posts: 94 Thanks: 0 Thanked 29 Times in 20 Posts	I bought a Simson & CO Luger in a gun shop in 1959, the price was a whopping $42. I took the pistol on vacation to Missouri the next year. My Brother, Father and I went down into one of those abandoned limestone pits to do some target shooting. There are many such pits around Cape Girardeau, Mo. I had brought along some new factory 9MM ammo. While the pistol was very accurate, even a distance, it would balk and jam every few rounds. I was disappointed to put it mildly. I had wanted a Luger since I was a boy during WWII and watched all those war pictures with spies carrying and shooting Lugers. Now I had one and it didn't work. Very upsetting. I was on my way back to California and leaving town I passed a gun shop, went in and traded my Luger for a 22 revolver. Shortly after returning home, I was reading a gun magazine. In the question & answer section a reader had asked about the same problem I had experienced. The expert wrote that it was a common occurrence with American ammo because it was downloaded due to the varying quality of the many different pistols being brought back from Europe. It made me sick. That is my first sad Luger story. Stay tuned, I have more.