Mr Bill's 1917 Erfurt finds a new home

[padredan]

Mr bill Lyons 1917 luger came to live with me today and we gave it a fond welcome, and no luger celebration is comeplete with out party hats and a sargent Schutze impression. Thanks Again mr bill Lyons for your honesty it has been a pleasure to deal with you. I will give it a good home. All my best Padre

[padredan]

oh and by the way i did not win the schultze look alike contest.

[padredan]

Isn't she a beauty, if i get a chance i will fire a few rounds thru her tommorrow and let you know how she shoots.

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by padredan

Mr bill Lyons 1917 luger came to live with me today and we gave it a fond welcome...

Incredible!!! Your library room looks just like my den!!!

Our decorators must have studied under the same master...

(Nice Luger, too!)

[padredan]

your house must be decorated in early PAWN SHOP then/lol.

[Ron Wood]

Zo, who vass der vinner der Schultz look-alike? I know nossingk.

[padredan]

Ron, wasn't the tall guy in camo/lol. I think we had Schultz ,who i think was played by John Banner http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0037612/ kinda mixed up with artie johnson's german " very interesting " charater from laugh in.

[Ron Wood]

Nah, I knew it wasn't the Artie Johnson character. The "I know nothing" was a Schultz oft-repeated line.

[padredan]

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0037612/ Yes i remember that, this link is about the actor john banner, totaly blown away that he was jewish and had fled the nazi and his entire family had parished in conetration camps during world war two.

[cirelaw]

Eric found a family portrait!

[padredan]

Now back to the subject of the Erfurt, took a little ride during my lunch time down to one of my shooting spots with a few targets and gongs. Fired a couple of magazine through it, worked flawless. one mag was winchester white box the other federal american eagle, not problems with either. Backed off to about eighty yards and six of the eight hit the gongs. So i am pleased , very pleased . Thanks again mr Bill.

[Shadowsix]

Actually most of the major players in Hogan's Heroes who played Germans were Jewish. Werner Klemperer (Col. Wilhelm Klink), Leon Askin (General Burkhalter), Howard Caine (Maj. Wolfgang Hochstetter) were also Jewish. John Banner happened to be in an actor's tour group in Switzerland when the nazis marched into his native Austria so he did not dare go home but insted moved to the US to make anti-nazi movies during the war (and after). Klemperer escaped his native Germany in '39 just in time to survive. Also of note Robert Clary (Cpl. LeBeau) also was jewish and escaped France just in time to escape being sent to a concentration camp.

True fact both Klemperer & Banner would only sign on to do Hogan's Heroes if their characters were always shown as buffoons!

Back to the Erfurt, beautiful piece & very glad it shot well Padre Dan! I am jealous and look forward to getting a shooter I can take to the range (though still enjoy my collector one very much).

[padredan]

Thanks for sharing that info on hogan's Hero's "who would have thunk it" i must now get the series on dvd, john banner appeared in all 168 shows that aired , did not know he had passe away either. Mr bill Lyons , who had owed the Erfurt, really did not see it as an shooter and it probaly is not , it is a much higher grade than a shooter, and since i did not have an Erfurt, so there you go. Mr bill had owned this pistol for 21 years and said had one of the best bores of any he has owned. Just about to fire up my bmw and go get some more ammo for it, thanks for looking. Padre

[cirelaw]

My favorite was Combat your before Vic Morrow lost his head decapited by a helicopter in the making of the 'The Trilight Movie'. I always were intigued by the auto weaons on both sides. Vic Morrow, Rick Jason!. Remember toy guns like Johny Seven? In 1964 Johnny Seven came out with 7 weapons including a grenade launch. Imagine walking in a playground armed with this plastic "I KNOW NOTHING"!!!

[padredan]

I went back and fired the Erfurt again this afternoon, worked flawless. Winchester white box and it shoots pretty much to point of aim.

[tx_oil]

Congrats on a beauty!! Very nice Erfurt, indeed.
On the Hogan's Heroes topic, I believe that Robert Clary (Lebeau) was interned in a German camp during WWII.

[TheRomanhistorian]

Nice work there, padredan! ...and the Luger's pretty, too.

[Shadowsix]

Originally Posted by tx_oil

On the Hogan's Heroes topic, I believe that Robert Clary (Lebeau) was interned in a German camp during WWII.

You are correct. It had been a long time since I had read the article on him and I didn't remember it exactly, he did get interned in a concentration camp as a child!

[Douglas Jr.]

Nice Luger and great pictures of your welcome party!

[padredan]

Thanks, we do try to have a little fun from time to time, the older you get you seem to be able to find humor if you will look hard enough. Took a little shooting time again today and the more i shoot mr bill Erfurt the more i like it, he said it had one of the best bores of any he has owned and i realy belive it. It is the best shooter of any the lugers i own and has functioned flawless. Mr Bill Lyon is so honest he sent me part of the shipping back on it, which was not necessary. Not many like Mr Bill in this world. To me this will always be Mr Bill's Erfurt.