Rate my bore
 

What is your opinion of this bore?

I know those are not award winning photos, but I found it really difficult to make good pictures of the rifling.

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I am not a 'bore' guy and it is something I look at with barely prejudicing me on whether I buy it or not...

Your bore has a lot more than what I would say is freckling or frosting in a description, if I was selling, I would say, 'has light pitting throughout the bore'.

It probably shoots just fine, with pitting you never know, let alone from a luger to the next luger you never know ;)


Ed

The best way to find out is to take it to the range. If it's accurate and consistent, forget about it.

I've seen worse shoot great.
Mike Z.

It doesn't look to bad. If on a collectible will make some difference? If on a shooter it should be fine. These guns were used in War and we cannot expect them to be perfect. Bill

If I were selling "fair to poor."

I agree with all the members that say "shoot it"! bore descriptions are subjective and if the gun is being represented as a shooter, then practical accuracy is all that matters, not how it looks to any inspection.
My MP40 has a dark, speckled bore from the use of cheap, Eastern Block corrosive blanks fired at demonstrations and reenactments.
I can still take that gun and fire single shots dead on at clay disks at 100yards and break 9 out of 10.

Bore frost is unimportant if the gun shoots.

My first Luger was a 1918 Erma that I purchased back in 1961 and the bore looked very similar to yours. At 25 yds or so I could consistently hit beer cans, crab apples and just about anything else I wanted. That was 1961 and looking thru the sights with 15 year old eyes made all the difference in the world.
I think if you stay with jacketed bullets at normal velocities you should still be able to hit pretty good............................

Any chance that would be a 1918 Erfurt rather than Erma?

You are correct; it was an Erfurt! My mistake...................................

Since we're telling tales, I have a 1913 DWM Shooter with a similar bore as pictured. Shot at paper for the first time a few weeks ago from a sandbag rest at 15 yds using a spotting scope to adjust fire. First shot was 6" high and ~1" left. Fired 2 more rounds for grouping, but could not see them on paper. Held low and right to adjust fire. POI was in the bull, 2 more for grouping, and none visible. WTF! Walked out at cease fire to retrieve target, and saw that each hole was a ragged cloverleaf. I have a new respect for that pistol. BTW, it ran flawlessly with a MecGar mag for 50 rds. Here is a pic of it below the Hugh Clark "Baby" I'm trying to sell locally.

Hi:

You have a well worn bore that has seen a lot of corrosive ammo without regular cleaning.

If the crown on your barrel is still tight, I think you may well still have an accurate shooter.

The only way to find out, as others above have stated, it to take it out and shoot it.


Sieger

Thank you all! Yes, it still shoots great in my opinion (if hitting 25 cm (9,8 inch) diameter round steels from 25 meters (27 yards) without a problem is good for this bore ). I was just curios about the opinion of the professionals.