If you were looking to buy a luger.....
 

where would you look, i would like to aquire one but am a bit short of funds as i am a college student. Im not looking for anything to fancy just a shooter grade luger. I know very little to nothing about the guns, just have a bug to get one.

I sure understand the bug to get a Luger. I've bought a few over the last couple of years.

My advice is to read every post here and on Jan Still's board, including those from the beginning. I'd also buy a couple of the good books (You'll see them as you read the posts) at least. Then I'd post here a "Want to buy" ad for exactly what you want.

I know that will require delaying your desire and that'll be hard to do, but it will be worth it in the long run as even a base shooter may run $600.00 or more. Might as well do it right and know what you're getting into.

i was expecting to pay about 550-600 for one so that doesnt hurt me too bad.

Pat, I would suggest that you keep $600 cash at hand with $400 in the wallet and $100 in each of your front pockets. Start attending gun shows and see what you come across. Offer $400 first, another $100 more next and then go home. You'll get what you are looking for.

Spend more time out in front of the show than in the show, that's where you will find your gun.

AHA..."The Anderson Manifesto" , exposed....

thats sorta what i am known to do george, but i need to do some reading before i get too crazy. i know NOTHING about lugers other then they are cool, old and a piece of history.........and that i want one.

Pat, If you want to purchase a luger that works, I suggest that you buy it from a dealer that guarantees it to function properly and get a receipt to that effect. I have repaired many PO8s that were purchased from "unknown" private parties, at a "bargain" price, only to have another $100 or so added for a blown breech block, etc. TH

Doc...amen! good advice, while I like my gun smith business, I hate to see some guy drop another $50/100 on a bargain gun that does not work.

check out this guy he has some shooters and will guarantee they work. He will also test fire them on request. I just bought my first luger from him to be delivered to my door this Saturday. Spent a couple of hours talking to him, nice guy.

http://www.checkpointcharlies.com/sh...2&categoryid=9

Curly, your profile picture always makes me laugh... :D

and with curlys advice i may have just found my first luger. Ill have to call him tommorrow and see what his deal is.

Check the trader board, luscioman has a nice mismatched shooter at a resonable price. You may also want to post a request in the Wanted section. I had alot of contacts that way also.

Dude I belong to another site where a bud says the same thing. glad to be of service. NYUK NYUK NYUK NYUK NYUK

I guess this is probably the wrong place to put this, but I can't help but believe that if one is going to offer guns for sale, particularly at high dollar prices, pix should be included for all offerings.

Feedback is pretty much universally good for Checkpoint Charlie, so I may be the only one to feel this way.

Those 4" C-96 guns are intriguing.

Rod, I think many sellers are still beleiving that simple print outs of basic description will sell guns.

Simson's is doping ti right, so is Houston Gun-collecting, great pictures, with the basic write up.

Ed

Rod got mine today and from Charlie and it lives up to his 1 pic and discription on his site and the converasations I have had with him, very satisfied customer here.

Curly, the single pix don't bother me so much; it's the guns with no pix and the one line that do.

Glad your deal worked out well.

Rod do what i did call em and ask to put up a pic he put up all the lugers he didnt have a pic of when i asked em

Curly, thanks.

Pat, I discovered the hard way that when buying any collector item it is best to go for the highest quality you can afford, even if tries the patience. In my experience the higher quality items can more likely be sold later at a profit than the lower quality items, which frequently must be sold at a loss.

Hi Pat,

If you indicate what State/city you're from, folks here can probably direct you to worthwhile gun shows or luger dealers in your area that can be trusted...

You also might want to chase down one of the 1970's Mauser built "new" lugers...in 9 mm to keep your ammo costs down. These are fine reliable shooters and even collectible if NIB (new in box).

Here is one on Guns-America :

http://www.gunsamerica.com/guns/976685110.htm

I'm new to the forum and not a serious collector, and I hope this question is not on the wrong thread. It appears to me that what I'll call standard infantry issue WW2 vintage Lugers are more valuable than standard infantry issue WW1 Lugers, condition being equal. Am I correct in this observation? I think of the Luger as a WW1 pistol that was surpassed in functional reliability and practicality by the later Browning and Walther designs that made the WW2 scene. By contrast, I believe Colt 1911 pistols fetch higher prices than Colt 1911A1s, conditions being equal.

Lund Yes being new also and having scowered the internet for months now I have found the same to be true, The Nazi or Reich era infantry Lugers do fetch more than the Imperials of same condition.

I think that anything to do with the Nazi era has a big attraction to collectors and drives up the price.

I just purchased a 1911a1 1945 Remington in 95%-97% condition from a private owner for about 1/3 the price of a WW1 era 1911 in the same condition so in that case older has higher collector value.

Agreed, Curley. I note that FNs, Norwegian 1914s and other pistols made outside of Germany but used by the WW2 German army and marked accordingly command more $s than those without the Waffenamt stamp. It seems to be an American and British thing.