Please note there is an acceptance stamp on the right side of the chamber. The barrel must be 9m/m cal originally. No other known original 7,63 barrel bears s/n 84707 (or 4707, if we assume the leading 8 was an add-on) and acceptance stamp.... even if we assume that acceptance stamp was an add-on as well (highly unlikely), that shape of barrel taper area is almost impossible to modify and its current shape definitely points wartime production. Also, the shallow relief cut on the top right side of the magazine follower also matches 9x19 style.

Could you also post picture showing the top of the rear sight ramp with slide set to 500? If we assume the sight ramp was modified from flat 50-500 style to steep 50-1000 style, it will be very interesting to see the worksmanship of modification.

Sure thing, just happy to clarify new aspects of this.

http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/img_2907.jpg
http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/img_2908.jpg
http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/img_2909.jpg

I have only two Lugers and they exhibit the same 'reversed safety' problem. One is on up and the other is on down. You gotta know this means that sooner or later I am going to ventilate one of my shoes while still in it.

Thanks for the pix and I appologize for jumping too deep into the sideway bore stuff. The sight leaf is prewar. The sight slide was installed wrong -- you need to rotate it 180 degrees, so the pushdown button on the slide appears on the right side of the gun. ;) Enjoy the gun! I agree Luger is blue chip. Broom is great fun as well.

Alvin, does that mean this sight is 'right' for a 7.63? Had a feeling that the sight slide was the wrong way on.. thanks for pointing that out! Also I think it's great that you shared some light on that mysterious bore :)

..now I just need to find out how to pick this thing apart.


David, stay safe my friend, never trust the safeties on any gun! You only have 10 of those toes! ..reminds me of a guy I once met, he was working as a carpenter fixing up old military buildings. I noticed he was missing three fingers, two on one hand and one on the other. Asked him how he lost his fingers.. he then pointed towards a circular saw with his little finger and a grin on his face. Out of curiosity I had to ask how he lost fingers on both hands, he then told me that it was actually on three separate occasions! Talk about going down the wrong line of work eh..? ;)

The sight is 'right'.... if it were 1930 (too late) or Conehammer style (too early), I would had assumed it were 'wrong', but prewar 50-1000 sight was close enough. More importantly, the work on sight ramp is excellent as well. It's impossible to tell who did what, I assume it's old work, probably by German in post WWI era. If not, at least it's done by workshop with enough skill and equipment.

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Disassembly of rear sight is same as Mauser rifle.
http://www.surplusrifle.com/pistolc9...mble/index.asp