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Originally Posted by gill120
So far nobody seems to have what I m looking for. Was hoping Santa might shake one out of you guys tree. LOL Anyway since this will be a one time buy for me its gotta be right. Hope someone takes pity on me and lets one go my way. Thanks Guys, Best to all Dave
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Dave,
Sheer numbers are working to make your goal very difficult.
You want an HK built between 1940-1944.. Let's look at the numbers.
The initial contract was for 10,000 P.08s. They were built between 1935 and 1937 with a few in 1938.
In 1940, they restarted military production and between 1940 and 1944, about 2000 more pieces, at the most were delivered. So your target market is only 2000, basically two times the number of 1900 USA Test pieces which are one of the most scarce of Lugers.
Even if you could find a nice example, it will cost a pretty penny. And, it's unlikely any collector would have a duplicate specimen from which he would part.
If you want a nice HK at perhaps a more acceptable price, I would suggest that you focus on 1936 and 1937 examples. Many more were build in these two years than the others put together.
But always remember, the entire HK production over its entire history represented about ONE MONTH of Mauser's production in its hey day. In total Mauser built about 2 MILLION Lugers to HK's 12-13,000.
Just a little perspective.
John