Forum members age
 

Just curious the age of all the folks around here. I'm in my 20's and have always loved Lugers, including the Luger squirt gun I got when I was like 5.

A good portion of us are old - real old. It is nice though to have people around who will carry the torch.

Seems like there is a new generation of kids who think plastic toys [coff *Glock* coff] are the cat's meow...Us old fogies like machined steel and hardwood... :thumbup:

Years ago there was a poll on this. Start another, for some reason it ps off some of the young guys.

A lot of us have reached our biblical "three score and ten"...and then some!:)

69 until July.

Gunny :thumbsup:

Hey Gunny, that's cool! :thumbup: A milestone age, and I hit 75 on 14 July.:cheers:

Im 32 physically and about 16 or 17 mentally

I guess that I am in the middle some where. I'm 53

Jeffrey

You're all just babies. I'll be 76 in June, God willing.

I guess after reading Ron Wood's and Neil Young's posts you can count me as one of the "kids" as Sheepherder calls them, wont be 74 until late in the year. :)

Lon

Ron,

You're a youngster; how about Four Score this year?.

John

Yep, some old some young. Its nice to have a mix. I'll be 80 in June if I last that long. Bill:rockon::cheers:

My age is 59 until the 14th of November... it gives me the creeps... (but thanks God I "feel" a lot younger)
Oh, by the way I had two Luger squirt guns when I was litte too!

Three (3) days younger than dirt!! Some mornings, I feel like a thousand, but so goes life, and I still enjoy it very much.

41 going on 14, and hoping that I can still afford to buy lugers in this 'new economy'.:mad:

I find the diversity of opinion and experience here to be very refreshing. I find that the atmosphere of gentlemanly congeniality here to be a pleasant contrast to some other firearms-oriented forums.

I also appreciate very much the fact that beginning and intermediate-level collectors like myself are able to interact with and learn from the true experts and "old hands" in the field.

As I get older, I am starting to appreciate the fact we are all subject to the forward march of time, and that we are all "caretakers of history", in a very real sense.

The more I can learn, the more I can pass on...

I lost my luger virginity at age 47 and continued to lose my luger cherry up to today, age 58!! ~~Eric TKS!

I never owned any Luger squirt guns. Instead, I had an all metal luger capgun made by Lone Star. Sadly I broke it, but had LOTS of fun nonetheless. My dad always liked the P.08....somewhere I picked up his admiration for them. And I agree, hardwood and steel makes the best guns.

As for age, I turned 28 last December.

-Chris

It is all attitude. I keep telling folks that I'm going to live to be an old man if it kills me.:)

Will be 82 if I make it to 16 Apr.. Got my start on $29.00 Lugers.

Ken D

I never any Luger squirt guns, nor for that matter any metal luger capguns. Actually I was given a revolver when I was 12 and when I was 15 I went to the gun store (by myself) and, with the money I had saved, purchased a WWII British Enfield revolver, caliber 38 S&W. A couple of years later I purchased a mis-matched Luger to shoot. Still have both handguns. (The grips on the Luger are now taped on, otherwise they will fall off.)

Thank Goodness there are a few here that are older than I am. That gives me something to shoot for.

I turned 55 this year and have been collecting for about half of those years. This hobby has kept my interest and attention through some difficult times, I hope I can return the favor someday.

Mark

reaching equinox this April. be 57 born in 57. going on 16......:)
here's to you crotchety old coots. may you all live another 100 years!:cheers:

I have a pair of socks I bought for a wedding after I got out of the service.
They are 44 years old.

Lets leave this open but make this easier, see thread on age poll - if you don't want to play, then don't do so ;)

.AGE POLL
http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthread.php?t=32197

Hey Ed, I'm too lazy to look for the poll...how about a link?!:)

I had to make it first ;)

http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthread.php?t=32197

Thank you young man! It is nice to see you taking care of the geezers.
Ron

how old
 

Ladies & Gents,
I am 68. I would like to share a bit or sorrow and ask for prayers. My best friend for many many many years was just diagnosed with prostate and bone cancer. I feel I have part of me in that diagnoses. Please join with me in your prayers. Thanks,

Mike

Mike B,
Prayers outbound for your friend.

With an age span of over fifty years amoung us, we all have one thing in common 'Lugers' Ageless Simplasty~~

72 until October. Shot my first luger at age 15.
Jim S.

Ladies & Gents,
I am 68. I would like to share a bit or sorrow and ask for prayers. My best friend for many many many years was just diagnosed with prostate and bone cancer. I feel I have part of me in that diagnoses. Please join with me in your prayers. Thanks,

Mike

I will be glad to include your friend in my prayers Mike, and you too, as it can be very hard to have a close friend or any one we care about go through the uncertainty of a serious illness.
Lon

My prayers are sent.

Prayers sent.

Mike, our wishes and hearts go out to you and yours

Just over halfway to 100 since a year ago.

P.S. My prayers are sent for your friend too Mike!

P.P.S. My father bought his first Luger when I was 5 years old in the mid 60's. I didn't have any Luger squirt guns but I my father bought for me in the early 70's and I built them these 1:1 scale plastic models of a few pistols that were realistic functioning plastic models (with light metal springs) that on the semi autos that could be cocked and the plastic firing pin actuated (and the revolver would move single or double action). It came with these two piece plastic bullets where the casing had a hole where the primer goes and the plastic bullet had a stem that when fitted together with the casing the end would fit into the casing's primer hole!

Once built, in the semi autos you could load the magazine, install it, **** and fire the plastic bullet and it would fly about 10ft (of course you had to manually **** it every time)! The revolver you could load the cylinder & fire that too. My father bought me the Luger, 1911, & S&W .38 ones and I loved them, played with them and then at some point my mother (the perpetual spring cleaner) threw them out on me when they got in rough shape.

I don't remember if the were Revell models or whose (I was 10 years old) but I can't find anything on them on the internet though I would love to. They certainly couldn't be sold today as they looked too realistic (like the Borchadt C93 replica from Asia) at least not without an orange tipped barrel (which I'd hate)

64 in July, here. I confess to a very late start with handguns, but the allure of the Parabelum pistol finally kicked in around three years ago, and now I have five! This forum is my traditional starting place, backbone, and mainstay of whatever actual knowledge I have accumulated since, so I will take this opportunity to thank everyone involved--John Dunkle, our fearless leader, all the moderators (who are all super moderators in my book), and the many collectors who have worked so hard at this interest over the decades.

Mike, my dad died from pancreatic cancer in 1975, just a week shy of his 70th birthday. It was pretty rough for him, and my heart goes out to your friend for all that must be endured. It is difficult sometimes to accept the indifference displayed by the universe toward our existence, and I wish your friend the best.

David Parker

God Bless~~