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Rick W. · 11-02-2018, 11:00 AM

Nice looking pinto. I remember postings about barbecues in the south, folks would come wearing their best pistols or revolvers(plated, engraved, ivory grips, etc); some were revolvers that had bright nickel and blue parts(S&W M27 blue frame, nickel barrel and cylinder comes to mind), hence their term that I recall.........."pinto"............guess as in horse, two colors or more. Never been priviledged to attend such a party; but sounded like a good time.

We all hear about stainless guns being unique in fit; in the same conversations, we hear that the vintage Luger pieces can be interchanged across the board. I would surmise that there is a little poetic license in both statements. Early Lugers were all hand fitted................perhaps today a a more used term is tuned. We all note that some pistols called "matching" have the same number or portion of total number on their parts, some surmise twas a way to keep track during manufacturing processes, ie perhaps disassembly during bluing/fitting, just a stray opinion there.

The pistol appears to have the barrel and barrel extension from a Stoeger stainless Luger. Frame/toggle is blue vintage. appears that maybe the rails have been fitted as well as the interior of the extension..............probably not the only places obviously necessary.

One might be prudent in a headspace/gapspace check of the breeching of these blue/stainless parts. Especially case exposure in my opinion.

As far as being not done too often, I am not of that opinion. Parts is parts, if knowledge and ability of said parts..............to fit one another for a specific function.

My beater target Luger mule has a 12" 30 caliber barrel, in the wildcat 7.65x19, with blue frame/barrel extension; stainless toggle train. It is scoped for my own needs with a Leupold 2x, on a quick release/studded side mount. I had to pay attention to the breeching in this makeup, but is a custom barrel from a blank. Functions like any other Luger so far; other than some of the items mentioned allows me a bit more range than normally I would have.

fwiw

11-02-2018, 11:00 AM	#25
Rick W. User Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 339 Thanks: 81 Thanked 359 Times in 198 Posts	Nice looking pinto. I remember postings about barbecues in the south, folks would come wearing their best pistols or revolvers(plated, engraved, ivory grips, etc); some were revolvers that had bright nickel and blue parts(S&W M27 blue frame, nickel barrel and cylinder comes to mind), hence their term that I recall.........."pinto"............guess as in horse, two colors or more. Never been priviledged to attend such a party; but sounded like a good time. We all hear about stainless guns being unique in fit; in the same conversations, we hear that the vintage Luger pieces can be interchanged across the board. I would surmise that there is a little poetic license in both statements. Early Lugers were all hand fitted................perhaps today a a more used term is tuned. We all note that some pistols called "matching" have the same number or portion of total number on their parts, some surmise twas a way to keep track during manufacturing processes, ie perhaps disassembly during bluing/fitting, just a stray opinion there. The pistol appears to have the barrel and barrel extension from a Stoeger stainless Luger. Frame/toggle is blue vintage. appears that maybe the rails have been fitted as well as the interior of the extension..............probably not the only places obviously necessary. One might be prudent in a headspace/gapspace check of the breeching of these blue/stainless parts. Especially case exposure in my opinion. As far as being not done too often, I am not of that opinion. Parts is parts, if knowledge and ability of said parts..............to fit one another for a specific function. My beater target Luger mule has a 12" 30 caliber barrel, in the wildcat 7.65x19, with blue frame/barrel extension; stainless toggle train. It is scoped for my own needs with a Leupold 2x, on a quick release/studded side mount. I had to pay attention to the breeching in this makeup, but is a custom barrel from a blank. Functions like any other Luger so far; other than some of the items mentioned allows me a bit more range than normally I would have. fwiw Last edited by Rick W.; 11-02-2018 at 02:18 PM.