GNR Portuguese Contract Luger
 

Can any one tell me was the GNR magazine marked with the same serial number as the gun or did it just have a S/42 code on the aluminium base?
My one just has S/42 but I have heard of another which has a number, bit it may though, not the same number as the gun.
Murray.

Murray,

IIRC, the GNR mag base was wooden and un-numbered. The mag spine had a triangle inside a circle, I think.

Tom A.

Murry, Tom As description is of a M1906 Portugese mag. The correct mag for your GNR should have a nickeled tube with an unmarked Aluminum bottom. Although I have owned a couple that were numbered to the gun, this at best, was probably done later by the Portugese. I would save your S/42 marked mag, as a proper spare for an early WW2 military PO8. TH

Thanks for the correction, Tom. I was relying on a memory that is occasionally unreliable.

Tom A.

Murray, out of curiosity what is the serial number on your gun?

Sorry for the delay Doug,
I had to go to the mainland on business.
My GNR serial number is 2279V.

The other two that I know of here in NZ are 2374V and 2375V and are both owned by the same person.

Regards
Murray.

Ok, mine is serial number 2175v.

Murray,
Although our GNRs aren't consecutive, they aren't very far apart. Mine is 2268v.

Thanks Ron,
Thats interesting, only 11 numbers apart. Still, I suppose that is the chances with so few being made. How many do you believe are still around, still in 7.65mm. I understand that many were rebarrelled for 9mm. Was that so?
Regards
Murray.

I have not encountered any GNR Lugers that were rebarreled to 9mm. I suspect that the majority of the surviving examples are still 7.65mm but I do not know for sure.

Gentleman I have one serial 1982v