I think I am of a like mind as you. I have stuck with 1911s as shooters for quite some years and only recently became interested in Lugers as shooters. My experience has been to go with quality products such as Ed Brown and Les Baer 1911s.
As for Lugers, it is mostly one size fits all. I have found that the best shooting Lugers are those built in the late 1930s and early 1940s by Mauser. (I can't afford the Krieghoffs). What you might want to consider is that the Luger wasn't designed to handle hollow point ammunition or any of that Corbon or exotic stuff. It was designed to shoot a full metal jacket 124 grain bullet. I usually shoot a 115 grain round nose from PMC (Korean cheap stuff). It cycles the gun flawlessly, so it must be doing something right.
Something else you might take into consideration is that Lugers are 70 to 100 years old and I have found them to be a difficult gun to shoot when compared with a quality 1911. I have to wear GripSwell shooters gloves when I shoot my Lugers. Some of them have a heavy trigger pull and I find the Luger recoil to be a bit snappy. Even so, they are fun to shoot and you don't see too many people at the range packing the P-08.
Good luck. The only danger with the Luger is their addictive attraction.
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