[Wilhelm]

Well, I decided to buy it. I like to shoot my stuff so this provides me with an almost matching example I can enjoy at the range without fear of destroying a valuable pistol. The magazine has a real bakelite bottom so I assume it's original. As stated, someone replaced the grips Russian with resin repros unfortunately. Surprisingly, there is no RC "X" to be found but I know the reblue must have been done by them or, at least somewhere in Eastern Europe because of the crude import mark in the white. As far as I can tell, other than the alredy mentioned repro grips, remarked commercial side plate and the WWI grip screw, everything else appears to be matching to when it was made in 1941. Ivan doesn't seem to have gone crazy with the buffing either because most of the markings and edges are crisp. But I'm no expert by a million miles so please tell me if I am wrong about my assumptions please. I plan on doing a write-up on some non Luger forums (you guys already know all this stuff ) called "Anatomy of a Russian Rework P08" or something along those lines so I would like to get my facts straight before I start. So, thank you in advance! Here are a BUNCH of pictures for your perusal: