You'll have to bear with me on these photos, I took them with my phone. Here you can see the issue.

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...2C5CBA6136.jpg

Relatively clean breach block area.

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...2C22A8141A.jpg

Rear of the chamber where the extractor slides in. I made sure to scrape out any debris (there really was none).

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...2C392426FE.jpg

You can see that the S-hook is properly engaged in the main spring. (Yes I see the rust. The flash definitely exaggerates it, I have only scrubbed with cotton patches at this point, haven't gotten around to attacking with some steel wool.)

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...2C3119275A.jpg

There is a little bit of rust in this area. Honestly there isn't enough to cause this.

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...2C09F4B239.jpg

And here are the grips, because I never gave pictures of them. The one on the left is the GS stamped on. The one on the right is the original one.

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...2C1074F2F8.jpg

I will be getting after the rust soon, but I'm wondering if there are any lugerforum members in Arkansas, USA that might like to look at the gun in person, if they feel they can help with this issue.

I want to know how somebody could take a gun to school these days.

It was like 5 years ago. Check the dates at the beginning of this thread.

Wiley, excellent - remember, cleaning with less is better than more (light 0000 steel wool etc)

You know I love these guns, don't have one right now :) so slightly jealous

Ed

I realize that this post began almost five years ago but to set the current thinking right, Dr. Geoff Sturgess in his now two monumental three volume works Pistole Parabellum (co-authored by the now late Joachim Gortz) goes to extreme lengths, comparing almost part by part, dimension by dimension, measurement by measurement, concluding that Vickers did indeed manufacture the Vickers luger and ended up losing large sums of money in the process. It is questionable that ANY DWM parts found their way into the Vickers luger.