Reworks, and the changes in how they are regarded

At the risk of sounding too academic I would like to questiuon some of the terms that we tend to use (including myself) maybe we should think more about what we are saying.

First the term "shooter" has come to mean "non-collector grade", well I contend that ALL Lugers were built to be shooters, why else would a soldier be issued and trained on their use?

Second, "non-historical", often used to describe the current group of re-worked imports, well I have a hard time seeing what is non-historical about a pistol that was contracted by the German Military in WWII and by merit of it's country of origin was captured in some of the most epic battles in world history, (by the way these lugers are about the only ones we can tie to Eastern Front use), and then collected and refinished to go into storage for arms aide to communists movements during the 45 year Cold War. These Lugers may not be a perfectly preserved representation of the WWII finish condition but they are like living history of the Soviet Union for the last half of the 20th century.