How to spot an artillery
 

Came across this today, he is showing a receiver he is selling and he states this; okay, I have never heard this.
Is this another gun show rumor, or do you older collectors believe this too?


:confused:

Ed

Ed, Most letters near the lug on the bottom of luger receivers are just inspector's markings. IF I were to choose a meaning for a receiver marked "Longe" it would be that it required the long threaded (1/8" longer) barrel used on the M1900 and early M1906. TH

Ed,
My one and only Arty has an "N" stamped on the lug. So it must have started out as "not an artillery"...?

This wouldn't be our "Navy Luger analyist friend" from Jan's form would it? Old wind in his shorts or whatever...

Ron

No, this is on ebay for sale; I just it funny how people hear something and then state it as fact. I am no lugger expert, but I am fairly well read, if this was news to me, I assumed it was news to you guys...


Ed

Ed,

My 1917 DWM arty also has an N on the stock lug. Usually the sight notch above the chamber would identify it as an artillery receiver :)

The original army contract noted that letters of the alphabet were tolerated as factory markings on invisible places.

Not impossible, this story, but no evidence in that direction either. We can say that the L alone was not enough, as we have a number of N markings as well.