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Dwight Gruber · 06-28-2007, 11:27 AM

Joe,

According to Bobba these guns are found within the range of 2000i to 3500i. They are long-frame, grip-safety style guns. The guns were rebarrelled by the HÃ?Â¤mmerli firm in Switzerland with 4 3/4-inch, .30 barrels and roll-stamped with the "Abercrombie & Fitch" barrel legend. They were then imported by A&F. Conventional wisdom has it that this was all intnded as a deception to get around the Stoeger import monopoly of the Luger pistol.

There are questionable variations of the A&F marked pistols having to do with barrel length, caliber, barrel legend, and serial number.

There is a discussion of an unusual A&F pistol going on right now on Jan Still's Luger forum, http://luger.gunboards.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12117

--Dwight

06-28-2007, 11:27 AM	#2
Dwight Gruber User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 3,908 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1,330 Times in 435 Posts	Joe, According to Bobba these guns are found within the range of 2000i to 3500i. They are long-frame, grip-safety style guns. The guns were rebarrelled by the HÃ?Â¤mmerli firm in Switzerland with 4 3/4-inch, .30 barrels and roll-stamped with the "Abercrombie & Fitch" barrel legend. They were then imported by A&F. Conventional wisdom has it that this was all intnded as a deception to get around the Stoeger import monopoly of the Luger pistol. There are questionable variations of the A&F marked pistols having to do with barrel length, caliber, barrel legend, and serial number. There is a discussion of an unusual A&F pistol going on right now on Jan Still's Luger forum, http://luger.gunboards.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12117 --Dwight