Kind of tough without pictures, and some of the problems you describe can be game changers, lowering the appeal into a shooter category. However on the other hand, you want a Luger, your buddy has one, you can see it in the flesh, versus over the net, and it is, after all, only a grand. You can't go too wrong. If it is a complete roach you will only loose a couple hundred, but I doubt that to be the case.
And right or wrong, I always seem to give pre-WW1 guns a bit more leeway.
Welcome aboard!
dju
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