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Greetngs!

I'm new to teh forum and new to lugers. I just received a 4" Tikka barrel 9mm Finnish luger, and I'm trying to learn more about it. I look forward to discoverfing more about the gun with you guys!

redbear,

Welcome to the wonderful world of Lugers, prepare to be infected with Lugeritis. Congrats on your first, we'd love to see pictures.

Regards,

Balder

Welcome redbear! Not much to say about your luger without pictures. Perhaps an "imrproved" luger with lathi barrel?

Well, I rececived this 9mm Finnish luger recently as a gift. Thankfully, I do know the provinance of the piece; it is one of the Finn lugers that came from AIM.

It's a somewhat odd piece, though.

First, it has a 4" barrel [most finns have a 5" barrel]. More curious, at some point in time [probably during one of it's refurbishments] it was done up like a BYF [the so called "black widow"] luger; All parts blued [truly blued, I checked], black plastic grips [they are originals, I also checked that as well]. It bears the [SA] finnish property mark on the left hand side. All parts are either un-numbered or are matching; The Takedown lever, barrel, trigger, and toggle arm are all marked with the last two digits of the serial number. The pistol does show some evidence of being refurbed, perhaps several times, by the finns. The toggle is marked DWM, and it bears the import mark of TG guns discreetly on the right side, like all these recent finns do. The bore is excellant, and she shoots amazingly well.

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Amazing piece, shoots great, I really like it!

Joe,

It looks like this gun has as vertical c/N proof on the left reciever, is this true? Could you report the full serial number with letter suffix?

Thanks much.

--Dwight

Dwight;

If I understand correctly, you're refering to the Crown over an N marking? I belive this marking indicated that it was OK for modern Nitro-cellouse ammunition. To the right of that mark is the [SA]. Also, the safety does have the "Geisichert" marking.

I don't belive my gun has a letter prefix, or if it does, it's in some place I'm unfamiliar with. Primary, I'm lookng at the frame just under the barrel. The serial number is 8918. HTH~

Joe,

Thanks for that. Yes, the c/N is the post-War (WWI) commercial nitro proof.

The letter sufix I refer to, if it exists, is a small lower-case cursive letter found underneath the serial number on the front of the frame.

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--Dwight

I belive it is "p"... it's very cursive, but according to the suffix charts on this sight, it's "p".

While a "commercial" in the sense that it was sold on the open market, I understand this to be a Military Luger, in that it was sold to Finnland, and the [SA] mark is the Finnish Army property mark. Correct me if I'm wrong?

What is the signficance of the Suffix code? Thanks!