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ithacaartist · 02-24-2021, 12:15 AM

I'm a latecomer and won my first at an RIAC auction in early 2011. My first Luger was also my first pistol, a very nice, all-matching 1917 DWM Artillery--with the stock lug ground off. Fine tune rear sights, not in front. G.T. hooked me up with a segment of rear grip frame with intact lug, from some other project where somebody chopped up a Luger, I presume. The plan is to excise the offending area from the gun and TIG weld the replacement into place, then spot-refinish.

The stock iron in my Pakistani repro holster rig fits the replacement part nicely.

02-24-2021, 12:15 AM	#29
ithacaartist Twice a Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Atop the highest hill in Schuyler County NY Posts: 3,288 Thanks: 7,035 Thanked 2,482 Times in 1,323 Posts	I'm a latecomer and won my first at an RIAC auction in early 2011. My first Luger was also my first pistol, a very nice, all-matching 1917 DWM Artillery--with the stock lug ground off. Fine tune rear sights, not in front. G.T. hooked me up with a segment of rear grip frame with intact lug, from some other project where somebody chopped up a Luger, I presume. The plan is to excise the offending area from the gun and TIG weld the replacement into place, then spot-refinish. The stock iron in my Pakistani repro holster rig fits the replacement part nicely. __________________ "... Liberty is the seed and soil, the air and light, the dew and rain of progress, love and joy."-- Robert Greene Ingersoll 1894