Hi! My name is Lee and I live in Kansas City. A few years ago a good friend of mine passed away and he left me his firearms. Among the pieces was a P.O8 Lange pistole. There was also a 2nd type drum mag and loading tool. Apparently this gun was brought back as a trophy and like many items brought back it most likely languished in a drawre somewhere for years. The guy who brought it back also thought it would look cool or something if he had it nickel plated. I hate the look but I figure that the plating just might have actually saved the gun from rusting away over the years. It's a 1917 DWM make with all matching numbers that are crisp under the plating. The bore is a bit dark but the lands and grooves are sharp and deep. It took me about a year to get the rest of the kit from various places and now it is complete. I have bought extra parts whenever I found them and could afford them. When I shoot 9mm with it I use non matching parts like the extractor and firing pin I've bought so that I won't hurt the guns value if I break them. I also found and bought a six inch barrel that was in pretty rough exterior shape and the bore was gone. This I had cleaned up and reamed out to accept a conversion kit made by Erma so I could slip it on the reciever and shoot .22cal and save the 9mm arty barrel from too much use. I'm thinking about having the plating removed and getting the gun re-blued. I've visited Ralph's website often but never registered to get inside. I'm glad I did! There is a ton of knowledge here to make use of. I will be around.
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