Looks real to me and by far the cherriest example I have ever seen

What a very nice example of Lugers and hoster. I would clean and pamper them, but leave them in the safe.
Fire your shooter Luger all you want, knowning the collecters are safe and happy.
Great buy.

You have a pair of nice Lugers; hard to find in this condition. Congratulations!
As Jerry mentioned- I also have some "problems" with your holster. I was never the best friend of III. Reich items but I had hundreds of III. Reich holsters. I can not remember that I ever saw a DLU (Lüneschloss) with black stiches- I remember DLU dated 1940, 41, 42 and even 43 but all had white stiches. May be Jerry can tell more about your holster.
Regards Klaus

Hello!

thanks for the kind words. the stitching is actually white. somewhere along the line someone decided to use black shoe polish on the holster. Therefore, the white stitches absorbed the black color. If you look on the inside or in other areas (under the buckle, etc) you can see that the stitches are indeed white.

I guess the jury is still out on the authenticity of the holster :)

-bailey

Yes- the stiches are white. Perhaps it is the black calor- it is an "unusual" black but you have a really nice holster.It should have WaA 841.
Holsters in still good conditions are not so rare- one is dated 1915 the other undated but late (I think 1918) but yours is like new and that makes the difference!

Hi:

I shoot all of my Lugers regularly, but with custom crafted reloads, though.

If you do deside to shoot your beauties, avoid hot ammo, as there is plenty of it out there!!!

Many, here, shoot the "White Box Winchester" ammo available at your local Wal-Mart. This seems to operate the majority of the Lugers out there, though it is not a perfect match.

On your byf 42 ( I have a byf 41) use a 9mm or .357 copper brush to break loose the easy stuff, then oil.

Have fun shooting, if you decide to do so.

Sieger

Hi.

thanks for the advice. I just wanted to clarify, I shot the byf42 one time, just to see what it was like (these are my first lugers). And even then, I replaced the firing pin with a reproduction just in case.

That being said I will not shoot the pictured "collectors" anymore. I recently acquired a non-prime example (re-blued, non matching, etc) that I will use as a shooter.

Best Regards!

I agree that this BYF example is one of the finest of its type I have ever seen. CONGRATS!