Site advertising used wooden-bottom mags
 

Worth a look. They're selling used wood-bottom magazines for $49.95:

http://www.sportsmansguide.com/showa...seq=1078143861

There is no such thing as a wood-bottom WWII magazine. Something is badly out of whack here.

Agree with Aaron, aluminum was the fare for clip bottoms during the "second war". Could it be a "typo" and really be WWI? Still a value compared to today's prices.

Don't buy em'!! I got two delivered on Friday, I don't know what they are but they sure aren't original IMO. They appear to be an extruded sheet metal, quite heavy though, and the wood bottoms are shoddily made, certainly not up to normal German workmanship. One of them jammed in the Luger and I had to use a bar to beat it out. Both are going back on Tuesday for a refund. Mec-Gar is probably still the best way to go if you just want spares for shooting.

WWI mags did not sport blued tubes. Aluminum bottoms were authorized, I believe, in May of 1925.

I had the exact opposite problem that Herb had with mine. Mine kept sliding out of the pistol frame after the first shot. See the thread I started called "First Impressions of Shooting a Luger".

Apparently the "cobwebs" in their warehouse took a heavy toll on these relics. Who would go to the trouble to make these?!

These extruded rough wood bottom mags are Scandahovian (not sure if made in Norway, Sweden or Finland) post WW2 production.

Here is a photo of one of the offending magazines. The quality is poor, I just sat it in my scanner.

http://boards.rennlist.com/upload/Sp...deLugerMag.jpg