Diminished activity on LugerForum?
 

Guys, is it just me or has activity here died down considerably over the last several months?

I haven't been following the post numbers, but I can tell you what isn't slowing down and that is the number of registered members. We continue to add about 100 or more registrations every month. If you hover over the name of the latest new member at the top of the main forums page, and look at the status bar at the bottom of the window, it will show you the number issued to that member. Monitor that for a couple of months and the way it adds up will surprise you. We will soon surpass 6000 registrations.

David & Boos,

My opinion it's that there really haven't been any barn burning posts lately. Most of them just people asking for advice and wanting parts. It seems as though it goes in cycles. We're just on a down turn right now.

OR....The Mother Ship landed and took everyone to Micheal Jackson's Neverland Ranch!!!http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/popcorn.gif

There are firearm discussion forums and there are firearm technical forums; this is the latter. Conversation is direct, relevant, and specific to the subject of Lugers. Not a lot of irrelevant banter going on here. The information previously recorded is available for research so many of the answers can be located without posting on one of the forums.

Hi rk

"There are firearm discussion forums and there are firearm technical forums; this is the latter."

That's a fact. I have visited numerous other forums. Several firearms related, Militaria, knife and Vehicle forums.

For the most part, all they do is grab A$$ around , curse and flame each other basically like a bunch of spoiled college boys looking for attention and demonstrating their disrespect and disregard for others .

By far the 3 most sophisticated, intelligent and well run forums that I have visited. Where the members treat each other with respect. Are The Luger Forum, Jan Still's Forum and the P.38 &PP/PPK forum. Not necessarily in that order.

As I have said before, I visit them to learn, get expert advice from all aspects, and to teach the new members what I have learned, or help them in finding the correct answer. I should have been a teacher (hate kids) of some type. I love to see and to show new things and study the past.

I'm comfortable on each of the 3 forums.

Sorry for the speil...

Ron

No spiel Ron... just fact. I love educating young (and old) new Luger enthusiasts... it is even better than the mind stimulating conversation and sometimes educated speculation on the history of the technical marvel of engineering, manufacture and use of a pistol design that is over 100 years old and is virtually timeless... by documenting these discussions we are making history of our own of sorts... I think that the facts and databases that have been compiled since the inception of this forum, not to mention the international cooperation and friendships that have been formed are unprecedented. I am proud to be a part of all three of these forums.

Then there are exceptions............:cheers:

RK,

Long time no see...welcome back!

Tom A

I have to admit, I've been busy doing different things as well.

There's several book projects, one of which is going a bit slowly saleswise(the 'Moderne Gewehrfabrikation' reprint). A visit with several authors to Germany is being planned at the moment and I got the chance to take over the 9x19, 7.63 Mauser and 7.65 Para ammunition part of a collection, which also needs some time to sort out.

In between all of that, I'm trying to weld a 1980 Mercedes-Benz back to civilisation again :D

http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/ww2_all_small.jpg

28 years of Dutch rain and de-icing salt in the winter did their job pretty well. I must say, most problems were found along the edges. No serious structural damage. :D

http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/300sd6.jpg

Aw, we just wrote it off to your being a cranky old curmudgeon. :icon107: :p

Tac,

It's a US-Market 300SD (W126) that never made it to the USA. The license plate starts with my initials, and since we don't get to choose license plate numbers over here, I just have to keep it :D

904 Dark Blue with tan leather trim, electric seat adjustment and the lousy MB Airco.

http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/mvc440s.jpg

Hi Gerben is that the one I had the ride in.

Regards Richie

Tac,

The R107 and the W126 shared an awful lot of details and the W126 was designed to follow the design pattern which started in the R107, so they share a lot of of details. They were produced side-by-side for almost a decade.

@Richie: Nope, that was the follow-up, the W140 S-Class, an S350 Turbodiesel from 1993. Great cars, bad engines :) A pity that those cars have become too expensive to run on a daily basis. 150 Euros a month in taxes alone was a bit too much. The one above is exempted from road taxes because of it's age (25+ years old), so it became more economical to run. (our liter price is your gallon price x 2 :)

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Busy reading "Central Power Pistols"...... one downside of this book..... it inspired me to acquire another 9m/m. I had thought I would not acquire any of those anymore, but I could not hold it after reading that book :):)

One C/M and one C/J now. Both have scooped magazine followers.

Inspection is fun:
http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/red9.jpg

Assembled back:
http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/red9a.jpg

Brotherhood:
http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/red9b.jpg

Very nice "broomie's" Alvin

Roadkill... where Have you been? It is not in your nature to be gone for so long... you must be part of the diminished activity! :D

Hi Gerben, many years ago I had a Mercedes 230 SL, fantastic car..
here is my roadster-cabriolet now, funny in Paris..:cheers:

Christian,

Isn't "Citro�«n" the French word for Lemon? :D

(sorry, I just couldn't resist...)

How many Miles per gallon or kilometers per liter do you get with your car?

John, don't know..just sure that this old car (Citroen 2cv) is an abyss of fuel !
but very pleasant to drive on the Champs Elysees, the car topless, in the sunshine.. would you want to test it John ?...:)

Yes, but under just those conditions... :) with the top down, and in the sunshine... unfortunately, due to the miserable exchange rate, our trip to Paris will not happen this year in the fall as we had planned. Hopefully next year things will be better.

ok John, I will try to rapatriate the old Jeep Willys for this occasion..:bigbye:

Very nice 2CV Laoshi! Have a friend that 'collects' them. He has two that he has restored. If I remember right, he told me that one of them where made in the mid 80's? Do you know when they stoped making them?

These old MB's needs a bullet to stop running!

I had a 1979 mod 300 diesel that has traveled 735 000km (!) when I got it. Must have been a taxi or something in it's earlier years.. It was getting quite rusty in the area where the foot parking brake was. Could see right trough it and down to the asphalt. Other than that, it was in remarkable good shape to the bitter end.


It ended it's life on a military shooting range in 1999, about 200 enlisted men with A3's and MG's used it as a target during a miliraty exercise. Some cardboard figures where placed behind it, to find out where it could be safe to hide. The only safe spot was behind the wheel caps :)

""Guys, is it just me or has activity here died down considerably over the last several months?""
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I do not post much, but I do a lot of research on this forum which I believe is the best I came across from all the forums I participate. The information I accumulated from this forum about the Luger, I can produce a small book. So it seems that the scope of the forum is being met, that is to learn about our favourite pistol, the Luger.
I learned a lot from day one I joined and all this is thanks to you guys who take the time to reply to inquires that are posted, I am indebted to you all, thank You.
Alf.
:cheers:

Personally, I wish there was more activity here.. more pictures in the threads and that you guys where better looking. But that's just the way it is I quess :)

For those of us living on the flip-side of the earth (compared to our american friends), we often stumble in the dark while the most active forum member are having their sweet dreams. Probably something about lugers or women ..perhaps both.

hi Steinar, the last 2cv was produced in 1989 in France, but some ersatz were made after 89 in Portugal I think. Here is a link in french about this funny car. If I had money I would buy a Jaguar Type E, not the same kind of car, but really terrific car !...:)

http://www.2cv-legende.com/

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I have been blabbering about it before.. but this is my little weakness. Have have restored these two after the picture was taken :)

Nice,

Looks like classic guns and classic cars go well together.

Gerben, maybe WE are the classics... not the items :D

Definitely.

Only a few websites (including this one) have a bunch of "classic" collectors. Most of gun sites that I visited have people playing C&R in a very different way. They are busy rebluing, "upgrading", and shooting C&Rs. Why C&R? I found very few modern guns can compete the price of C.A.I. MN91/44, Lee, M48, SKS, CZ52, etc, etc..... I confess that I also have a few of those for shooting, but I notice people are accumulating them, in number of 30, 50, even 100+. A different type of fun.

John,
I fear you are right. Our penchant for century-old guns may in fact show our knowledge and good taste, but it also shows our age. Still, I canâ??t imagine anyone of any age or background honestly looking at a modern piece of combat tupperware and claiming it to be a work of art unto itself.

Neither Glocks nor the Backstreet Boys will have significant entries in the history books.

Probably too early to tell. I am trying to imagine this scene: 100 years from now, in 2108, my grand, grand.... son will study Glock 17L like my studying Artillery Parabellum, Glock 26 like Bolo, Glock 18C like Schnellfeuer..... :):) not impossible..... and his reference book is "Glock -- Pistol that Started an New Era".... plastic era.

alvin,

Your history book writing privileges are hereby revoked! :D

tac -- Too sad.... what should I say.....

I always start from books, but it's not an easy task for me to fully grasp what authors mean without samples. Sure, I am interested in certain types before I read books, helping studying the book material is probably an excuse of collecting fancy guns.

I haven't understood gun collecting yet. My collection is very small..... even for this small collection, they sit in the gun safe 99.9% of time. I don't even know why I acquired them -- Shouldn't read books good enough? That returns to my first point. It's a loop.

tac,

If you send me the $50k, I'll be happy to buy guns and send you photos. :D

tac, we've always been your friend. This just shows the lengths we wil go to prove it!