VOPO luger
 

Dear Experts

This pistol recently went up on Gunbroker. Does it look at all as if it might be a VOPO rework, between the awkward reblue and the force matching of disparate parts (and despite the grips)?

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=130549778

Thanks,
Jeff

Internet sales language translation;
"I've never fired it" (here repeated twice in this add) = The gun is unreliable and jambs
"I don't know how to take it apart" = There are mismatched and/or broken parts inside that you will find once you own it
Personally I don't see any mismatched parts in the photos. It looks like a rework with repro grips

It's a 1937 Mauser with a DWM toggle. It could be a VOPO. Ask him if it has import marks anyplace, bottom of the barrel etc.

Many will probably disagree but I'd put a bid of $500-$600 on it, cruddy as it is, just for a shooter. Lugers are tempermental but I've never had one that couldn't be fixed. It might make a fine project gun.

Charlie