Shooter Artillery
 

Spotted this one on a dealer's site I've done business with. I've been wanting a shooter and I think this will fit the bill with a new right grip. What do ya'll think? Click below pic for right side.


DWM 1914 Artillery Luger 9mm $525

8" barrel. 1918 chamber date. Correct-type, unnumbered wood-bottom magazine. All matching but sideplate. Checkering sanded deeply on right grip. 95% blue, 60% straw.


The bore on the Artillery Luger is excellent. There is no pitting visible with my naked eye either inside or out. This would be a very presentable pistol but for two defects I mentioned in my original listing:

1. Someone has deeply sanded an area on the right grip (presumably to obliterate initials someone carved into them a long time ago.

2. The takedown sideplate is mismatched to the rest of the pistol. (All other numbers match.)





Right Side Picture
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Re: Shooter Artillery
 

JUMP ON IT...or give ME the dealer's contact info!

Re: Shooter Artillery
 

If you don't want it, I'll take it for that price!!! Good Hunting

Re: Shooter Artillery
 

Guess its too late to tell you I would take it, if your not interested in it.

Re: Shooter Artillery
 

Wanna make a $100 profit? :>)

Re: Shooter Artillery
 

Wanna make $200 profit. I'll take that obsolete mismatched rust bucket off of your hands.

Re: Shooter Artillery
 

You probably don't want a mismatched gun like that with a bad grip! You can sell it to me for a $300 profit!

What's this - a feeding frenzy? (EOM)
 

Re: Shooter Artillery
 

Well, the pictures look good but it appears to me, and I have been known to make many mistakes, that the left side picture is actually the right side of the pistol. I have heard of 'mismatched' pistols but to have the left and right side not matched..well, that could account for the low price.

Re: Shooter Artillery
 

As soon as I posted that I saw that I was mistaken, the right side is truly the right side. With only the two options I had a 50-50 chance of being right..but alas, no such luck. Since I can't withdraw my earlier post (hey, Dok, why can't I go back and delete my post?) I will just stop digging the hole I am in. Nice Artillery, buy it.

Re: Shooter Artillery
 

Bill,

are you sure that only looks like the right side but is really the left side turned around to look like the right side, or maybe the right side turned around to look like the left side or maybe the .................

You Guys Have Convinced Me!
 

Check goes out for the Artillery tomorrow (BTW price included shipping). He's going to ship it out with the other Luger I just finished paying for. Got this one for a killer price through some lucky buying and trading which is the only way I can afford guns like this.

PS: I think I fixed it this time so Bill won't get the side and top views confused =;^)



Click for Top View
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Re: You Guys Have Convinced Me!
 

Guess you're not gonna reveal your source for these little gems at bargain basement prices! Can't say that I blame you!

Color me green...


--Don

Re: You Guys Have Convinced Me!
 

Beautiful Swiss!! That picture captures the beauty of the Luger in all of it's splendor. Nice grips, nice blue, nice straw..excellent picture.

Re: You Guys Have Convinced Me!
 

A heavily sanded right grip hints at an EWB luger. Many LP08's and broomhandles were marked with a large EWB crudely cut in the grips and the seller invariably thinks it is a GI's initials carved in to ID his property. In reality, it is a Weimar organization's initials. Sometimes, folks sand off the initials or replace the grips and toss the EWB's!

That really would be a shame!
 

I hope that wasn't the case but there is no way to know. Could of been done 1 year ago or 80 years ago. The sanded area does not look to be dark with age but then neither does the left grip. Will post if they're original when I get it. My luck the right grip was marked "A. H. Cpl."=;^)

Re: You Guys Have Convinced Me!
 

hi guys, i can't believe the price for this ari. 525 $, thats great. buy it. on the right grip could have been two different markings: 1. EWB (Einwohner Wehr Bayern) it means the citizen-force of bavaria, and the 2. the red 9, it was made in some lugers because some gun-smithes in ww 1 misunderstood an order: there were 7,65 mm and 9 mm mauser c 96 in ww 1. it happened often, that soldiers shot 9 mm-ammo in an 7,65 mauser. that was dangerous, of course. so they gave an order, to brand one grip with a big 9 and paint it red. some gun-smithes read on lugers DWM (Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken) but they thougt DWM means Deutsche Waffenfabriken Mauser, thats of course not so.so they branded also some luger-grips. they are very rare.