A Heck Of A Shooter
 

I just purchased my first shooter having never fired a luger in 15 years. I received mine today from George Andersoon. He obviously designed it to be very special. Here is His description: "Its a reblued 1917 Erfurt. I changed the fireing pin for a fluted Mauser fireing pin. I changed the magazine for a post war East German Haenel Schmeisser mag. Both these changes are in order to make it a better shooter. It has British proof marks indicating that it went from Germany to England before coming to the U.S." I'll try it out next week! Can hardly wait!! Thank You again my Friend and mentor!

That's a beauty, enjoy the shooting!

On a side note, what is the purpose of the fluting, maybe weight reduction or ??

What is that little tool in the 4th picture???

Haven't shot in 15 years??? :eek: Welcome to my world!!! :rolleyes:

(Who has the time??? And bending all the way down to pick up empties?!?!...Torture...)

Its a little mag loader made by one of our members! Its really great and no problem 7 rounds~ He tools it himself and should patent it! This will be my first attempt at loading and fireing a luger. Fifteen lugers later and ten years I can finally fire a luger with no worry! What a rare privalege!! ~Eric

The fluted firing pin was introduced by Mauser. It's purpose was to allow high pressure gasses to bypass the firing pin in the case of primers backing out or puncturing.

On the older design, the pin effectively sealed the area behind the breech block's firing pin hole, and damage would occur to the breech block.

Marc

Every luger has a story!

Hi Eric,

I'm really glad that you bought yourself such a nice shooter, although it's a bit old, surely you have it already had checked by a serious amourer, in any case I believe that especially old WWI Lugers should never be fired with modern high speed/high power ammuntions as they might be structurally unsound.
IMHO
Safe shooting Eric! :thumbup:
Sergio

Interesting that the British, (an assumption) stamped it "Made in Austria" upon importation, rather than "Made in Germany"

I think its a Boehler Stahl replacement barrel, that's why it's marked "Made in Austria" Odd that its Brit proofed, though.

Definitely an Austrian made barrel... proofed during it's time in the UK. A very nice shooter Eric...

Aren't Bohler barrels stamped 'Bohler' on the top of the barrel???

I noticed this unusual proof!
 

It appears more than once~ Eric

It's all over the place! :eek:

Crown over BNP...'British Nitro Proof'??? :confused:

Great new shooter, Eric. I know you'll have a "blast"!!

First of all, Thank you both! According to George the gun spent time in England after it left Germany and that might explain these unusual proofs. I wonder how that happened? Gives a whole new meaning to "shooter" !

Eric
These proofs are not unusual. They are typical British proofs. Fire arms brought into England are required to be proofed. Should make a good shooter. Have fun. Bill

Just like most manufacturers, there never is a "normal"... it varies with the production runs. More than likely, during at least one run, these stamps were overlooked, or maybe not even thought of, if it was one of the early production runs.

As a matter of fact Rich, are you one of those who never does something the same way twice? :cheers:

Every luger has a unique history. One reason why we love them!

I found an article on British proofs~ http://firearmshistory.blogspot.com/...roof-test.html and European standards http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commiss...Feu_Portatives

I am one of those people who can't remember how to do something the same way twice... :rolleyes: