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Unread 11-09-2014, 10:26 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by JTD View Post
Spend the money on bullets. John
Ross, I'm not saying it was re-barreled by Stoeger. It was an 8" LP.08 when it was born. Somebody turned down the barrel and removed the accommodation for a rear sight. A mis-/force matched standard rear toggle link was changed in, its v-notch sight to compensate for the loss of the barrel's sight. After all this heavy-handed surgery, it looks like one of the Stoeger Lugers. They would re-barrel in a number of lengths--some of them approaching outrageous--and the standard rear toggle link was retained.

Even if you found a rear toggle link numbered 37 with no sight notch, you'd need to find an artillery barrel with sight leaf intact, and all those parts would need to match, too. The odds of returning this pistol to number matching are homeopathic!
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