new member saying hello

[james83]

Hello, my name is james
I'am a new member to the forum and just wanted to say hello to all

I was born in Northern Ireland and grew up in the Northwest of the United Kingdom, I now live in Oregon here in the pacific northwest.

I own mostly modern firearms, Glock pistols, various Akm47 type rifles and my main interest is sporting clays and trap shooting and so I enjoy nice over/under shotguns and side by side shotguns for upland birds.

Recently I have become interested in some of the guns my father owned back in the old country that I remember from my childhood.

He (my father) owned some nice shotguns and a couple of old enfield .303 bolt actions

but what I remember the most was his pistols, He owned a Browning 1910 in .32acp
Beretta 1934 in 9mm kurz (.380 acp?)
Broomhandle Mauser in 7.63?
Browning Hi-powers (one was Nazi marked the other was Spanish I think?) 9mm

But my favorite pistol was the German luger he owned I remember it was all black except the trigger and it was a 9mm

Anyways he turned them all in for destruction back in 1997 when the handgun ban came into law in the UK.

I have been in the states now for a long old time and have mostly enjoyed owning and shooting modern weapons but I recently started to become interested in the guns I remember my father owning.

I put a DWM commercial luger on lawaway at a local FFL and I think I will pick it up on Saturday. Its a .30 luger and I have so far had a heck of a time finding ammo for it, I think I paid too much for it too, wish I had found this forum before I decided to buy the pistol but it was an impulse buy.

I look forward to reading and learning more from this very interesting forum



James83