What Is Your Favotrite?
 

Bar none is my 1920 9mm Luger Carbine

I like the ones with the toggle action.:)

Ron, How many varieties were there? I can't find much written on this one.

Simpson has a most beautiful luger carbine stock for $675, Its a almost dead on accurate, especially its hardware. Please take a look. Maybe a spare!!

OOPPS,The carbine stock Simpson is selling is missing the all to important srew swivel. Have you ever seen a swivel replica?

Eric:

Beautiful! I concur with Ron; every one has its own character and appeal!

Clark

Ok, I will take a stand, my favorite is one of these three ;)

1. Test Luger / bannerman number (but I have to settle for a in range right now, and yes, I have owned 1 or 2 test numbers :()
2. 1900 American Eagle
3. 1925 Simson


Ed

1900 AE, because it was my first. I was 14 yrs old when it found it's way to me.

Ed, why is it we don't hear much around Simsons? Until Your book I was unaware they even existed?

I wondered wheather there has ever been a firearm other than our favorite with so many varieties or models.

There were only 12,000 made, so you encounter them less, plus not as well made as the Krieghoff, but to be fair to them, they also were made 10 years before the Kreigs, so they were used much longer and harder, as they were issued straight to the military and police.


Ed

What is their rarest variation?

Eric, I know you have asked this recently and no one has answered you.

I think its because no one knows, some writers have speculated that there are something like 250-350 variations. Military, Police and commercial....

Since it was made by Erfurt, DWM, Simson, Krieghoff and Mauser and then the Swiss, plus each model, the amount is in the hundreds, unless you just counted the specific 'model variations", then it would be a score or so?




Ed

Ed its just so facinating to me. Authors like yourself have been so monumental in keeping it interesting and alive. Twenty years from now its your words that will have written the history for which they will stay alive. You not only write history but from whom it will be judged. A pat on your back and a few others are classically justified!

Of Simson's

in this order

1926 dated Simson
1925 dated Simson
S toggle
police Simson (whether S toggle or Simson toggle)

Thank You, I'm going to spend sometime with your book today!

I love them all.
Each has a story, from the rarest of the rare, to the old beat to death "junkyard dog".
Every one speaks to me, and I do my best to listen.
It's like trying to pick your favorite child, or dog.
Can't really compare one to another, except for $.

Donna truer words have never been typed!! But I would love to adopt a few of your!

Most any correct Navy!

Can't beet
 

an 1908 Navy