Interesting discussion. Personally, I have never paid much attention to the pins. As long as there was a tight fit, the number and markings were correct and the tube was correct and not bent, it was OK with me. But the price is kinda high. Hey John, your getting pretty good at that forensic science. You must be watching a lot of that detective stuff of cable TV.
But lets suppose something else. If you found a matching magazine for one of your prized Lugers but you suspected that the bottom had been changed to an appropriate tube but not otherwise altered, would that change the way you feel about the magazine? Would you still be willing to pay a higher price for the matchup?
A second question that I would like to ask is if you accidentally dropped a matching mag to one of your prized Lugers on the garage floor and then ran over it with your car crushing everything but the wood bottom, would you throw out he entire ruined magazine or try to mount the wood bottom on an appropriate other tube?
Big Norm
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