OK, I'll break a promise with one more comment, and then it's bye-bye.
The original discussion was on the "witness" marks on the receiver and barrel of Luger pistols. Being new to the site, I was not aware of the previous discussions. In my ignorance I thought that I could simply explain what those marks are and describe the commonly understood process of using draw lines.
Instead, it appears that no new discussion of any Luger issue is permitted. Luger collectors seem to me to be totally narrow minded and unable to even consider any ideas that have not had the blessings of some book written by people as ignorant as themselves.
So, in reward for my efforts to explain to the newbies what I thought was a well known process, I have been put on trial, my posting has been called nonsense, I have been called names, and people have given me the third degree demanding that I produce evidence. (Why not demand evidence that drills drill holes? It is as simple a process.)
I never intended to explain every variation or possibility, even the radical idea that barrel installers in a peace-time era might have been able to work more carefully than in war time.
I will not be put on trial here; I resent would-be TV lawyers trying to accuse me of everything they can think of because I suggested a reason for those marks other than that "Whoosis and Whatsis" says they have to be there.
Have fun folks, with your error-filled "bibles" and your ideas of manufacture that could never have produced all those pistols you like so much and know so little of.
Jim
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