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Originally Posted by alanint
The barrel muzzle protrudes significantly beyond the front sight and the barrel thickness at the sight is dramatically larger than the balance of the barrel, indicating it is some sort of gunsmith's special, not a factory item.
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Which is not necessarily a bad thing...I make a lot of my own barrels from blanks, and I chamber a 9mm Luger to .003"-.004" headspace. Most OEM Lugers I've checked are way beyond that.
I like long barrels. I have long barreled Lugers, long barreled Mausers, a long barrel Lahti, a long barrel S&W 659...Pretty much anything I work on gets a long barrel...
If you can get this for a reasonable [read 'shooter'] price, then I think the long barrel is a big plus. The flip rear sight is junk, but the v-notch should be ok for plinking...
The grips are a matter of personal preference. They are a firing-line attention getter, for sure...and they do sort of accentuate the engraving...
It would be an interesting basis for a target Luger... 
Mount a micrometer rear sight on the toggle, higher front sight, drill the trigger for a setscrew... 