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Big Norm · 02-23-2002, 03:12 AM

Yah Ron!

That strawing adds just the right amount of machoism. And the bluing is great. My personal favorite is the model 1914 Navy Luger. But I love all the navies and I like the artilleries and the militaries are OK. That order. The navies have just that right balance in my hand.

But with any Luger, I try to pick it up and I try to feel its soul. I wish that it could talk to me and tell me what it went through. I think of Georg Luger trying to start a business from scratch with something new and trying to make a market with it. Trying to please everyone without making too many variations of the basic gun. Trying to make it not so expensive so that nobody could afford it.

I think of the individual hand craftsmanship of a mass produced Luger. Heck, even the grips had to be expensive to make by hand. Even in those days. Millions of them. Even today, with special machinery, we just can't seem to get it right. Somebody should write a book about a German worker making pistol grips seven days a week and ten hours a day. Could you fit all those tiny springs and pins in the breech block or a navy sight for that long of a time? It would drive me nuts.

I think that is why I am getting so interested in the history of 1894 to 1918 Germany. Its also the period when my grandparents came to America from Danzig and German controled Poland and when my parents where born.

Big Norm

02-23-2002, 03:12 AM	#5
Big Norm RIP Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: SE Michigan Posts: 1,864 Thanks: 1 Thanked 6 Times in 5 Posts	Re: I Need Info On A Luger Yah Ron! That strawing adds just the right amount of machoism. And the bluing is great. My personal favorite is the model 1914 Navy Luger. But I love all the navies and I like the artilleries and the militaries are OK. That order. The navies have just that right balance in my hand. But with any Luger, I try to pick it up and I try to feel its soul. I wish that it could talk to me and tell me what it went through. I think of Georg Luger trying to start a business from scratch with something new and trying to make a market with it. Trying to please everyone without making too many variations of the basic gun. Trying to make it not so expensive so that nobody could afford it. I think of the individual hand craftsmanship of a mass produced Luger. Heck, even the grips had to be expensive to make by hand. Even in those days. Millions of them. Even today, with special machinery, we just can't seem to get it right. Somebody should write a book about a German worker making pistol grips seven days a week and ten hours a day. Could you fit all those tiny springs and pins in the breech block or a navy sight for that long of a time? It would drive me nuts. I think that is why I am getting so interested in the history of 1894 to 1918 Germany. Its also the period when my grandparents came to America from Danzig and German controled Poland and when my parents where born. Big Norm