What makes this a "nice specemin" ?
Is it the matching serial numbers?
The year it was made?
Or a combination of different things...
You don't know how glad I am to hear from someone, or be validated that it IS indeed "the real deal" so to speak, when it comes to lugers..
Another thing you might find funny ,,,
The "Expert gun store guys" also laughed and said ...
"this is in too good a shape to have been used in a war!"
It came back from WWII and was placed in a chest for 50 years, how much damage could have been done?
It has not been refinished, I have seen ones that have been and they look brand new, or they have funny looks to them so you can tell they were redone...
Not to mention, it was taken off a soldier...
What i was trying to tell the guys at the store, (but I'm a kid (26) what do I know...
Is that during the war they (soldiers) would sometimes use any gun they had right?
In other words if its their personal gun, or "leftover" they would still carry it as a "backup"
Bottom line being, it was used in a war was my point...
I guess they were arguing it wasn't military issued, which Is correct because it was produced by DWM ...correct? this is just going off the little I've read from these posts
Thanks again
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