Dwight,
I, too, have several lugers and seen others in which the barrel witness marks look authentic and seem to have been struck by one blow with hammer & chisel, but the two halves are just a bit off-center from each other. Ths offset is usually not even as wide as half the width of the witness mark itself...
Would an advanced expert as Bob Simpson be wrong with his reported comment ? That is difficult for me to believe...
p.s. Just some wild a** speculation on my part, but...did lugers routinely go back to an arsenal or field shop for a complete disassembly and inspection? Maybe during the service life of many lugers, they had their barrels unscrewed for such an inspection ? Mere speculation on my part...
Regards,
Pete... <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />