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Yesterday I purchased my first P08:cheers: The only thing I am missing is the numbers matching magazines and the holster. I was wondering where is the best source for finding accurate period items? Any help would be appreciated

Welcome to the forum! And congratulations with your new Luger!

There is a "wanted to buy" selection in this forum, you can try posting your wanted list there. It is a good chance that someone can help you with the items. If not, you might also try ebay or look under "Links & resources" on the left side of your screen.

Wish you good luck with the Luger!
Ps. if you need help finding correct type of accessories, pictures of the luger might be helpful.

Scott, welcome to the forum!

See the retail guys for some accessories, see ebay for others and as Morgan said, here on the forum. Be aware that many fakes are out there...



Ed


btw, finding matching numbers is almost impossible, collectors have tried for years, with few successes and having magazines forced matched is wrong...

Congrats on getting your first Luger! I know the thrill since I got my first (and only) shooter Luger not so long ago, and I luvit. And Ed here helped my buddy by getting him his WWI Luger, which we have been looking for
for a while. The guys on this board are the best.

Try Tom Heller of Heller Arms Ltd. aka "Lugerdoc" on this forum.

Probably not in MN State ;)

Simpons LTD has this very nice (and pricy) 1939 dated holster :

http://www.simpsonltd.com/product_in...oducts_id=4196

They show up from time to time on e-Bay in the 1939 and 1940 dates...as well.

Finding a numbered matching magazine will take time and maybe years.

You might consider looking for the "correct" magazine for your pistol and not worry about the serial number. It is always nice to have 2 magazines with each luger. One in your pistol and one in the spare pouch on the holster.

In the theater of war when guns were fired and empty magazines were routinely dropped to the ground to load another, what is the chance that a soldier picked up his emties ?

Much "boosting" of forced-match magaines have been going on by Waffenfabrik-USA for many, many years to inflate the selling price of "matched" luger rigs. Probably elsewere in the world as well.

I see many of these "snakes" in this business running around and buying up all the un-numbered wooden and aluminum bottomed magazines at all the gun shows I attend. Then you see these same crooks or their business partners selling "matched" rigs later on their web sites and mail-out lists; usually in a mint-conditioned luger rig that looks like it left the factory (or someone's factory) just yesterday.

I love looking at their site