Many thanks for the tips! I will try the Wal Mart ammunition, if I can ever find it. Turns out there isn't a Wal Mart nearby.
The Lugers are very interesting pieces. The two I referenced are mismatched shooters. The Mauser is 1936 dated S/42, has a WWII period holster, and maintains a good deal of bluing and strawing. The artillery is a 1914 Erfurt mismatch, currently being reblued and restrawed by Thor. Can't wait to see what magic he intends to do with this one.
I have two others collector Lugers, a completely matching(except the magazine, but I have a WWI wooden bottom magazine in it) 1908 First Issue DWM with Prussian regimental markings and quite a bit of pitting, and which is kept proudly on display in a Teuscher case. Finally, I have a 1915 DWM artillery, again completely matched except for the magazine, and a good bit of blue and straw. I don't shoot that one either, and am awaiting an artillery case for it, which is being manufactured by Les Center. It does have an original mahogany colored WWI holster.
Additional pieces are a beautiful, plum brown Walther experimental finish and nearly flawless P38, manufactured in 1942, with a holster and spare magazine, and which shoots better than any pistol I own (though my heart belongs to Luger) and a nifty little Walther PP, in fabulous condition, again with a holster and a spare magazine.
I'll try and arrange to post photos as soon as the Erfurt comes back from Ted (Thor) Green's terrific shop.
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