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Robert W. Simms · 10-05-2003, 06:07 PM

I'm in the Nashville, TN area and Lugers are easy to find. However, any Luger that is (1) all matching (including wood grips and mag), (2) has no import marks, and (3) has at least 70% finish with some straw is probably a $2,000+ gun down here. Once you start adding one or more of the above delimiters then the price drops accordingly. I failed to mention that this Luger has no import marks, but as I said it has been buffed and re-blued. My gut feeling is that this is a $600 gun, and that is in line with John's thinking. Dwight's "harder-eyed" view would render this as a $400 gun, and might be correct for his part of the country. Even though Lugers are plentiful here, I have yet to see ANY $400 Lugers around here unless they are parts guns with missing pieces. Obviously, I intend to offer less than $700 for this specimen, but it shoots so accurately and reliably that I am willing to go an extra $50 or so to get a premium shooter. That means an offer of $600 and accept a counter-offer of $650. I would probably go for that unless more of you think that $600 is too much for an initial offer.

10-05-2003, 06:07 PM	#4
Robert W. Simms User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Mount Juliet, TN Posts: 16 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I'm in the Nashville, TN area and Lugers are easy to find. However, any Luger that is (1) all matching (including wood grips and mag), (2) has no import marks, and (3) has at least 70% finish with some straw is probably a $2,000+ gun down here. Once you start adding one or more of the above delimiters then the price drops accordingly. I failed to mention that this Luger has no import marks, but as I said it has been buffed and re-blued. My gut feeling is that this is a $600 gun, and that is in line with John's thinking. Dwight's "harder-eyed" view would render this as a $400 gun, and might be correct for his part of the country. Even though Lugers are plentiful here, I have yet to see ANY $400 Lugers around here unless they are parts guns with missing pieces. Obviously, I intend to offer less than $700 for this specimen, but it shoots so accurately and reliably that I am willing to go an extra $50 or so to get a premium shooter. That means an offer of $600 and accept a counter-offer of $650. I would probably go for that unless more of you think that $600 is too much for an initial offer.