New to the site and lugers

[mackeyms]

Hello All, New to the site and first off thank you to all of the contributors for sharing your knowledge. I am looking to buy my first and likely only luger (sort of like....honey its just a friendly backrub). Too explain, I am mostly just an accumulator/shooter and not a serious collector. That said I am looking to buy a artillery LP08 luger. So I'll sort of outline what I'm looking for and then some questions. I would like to find a "as matching as possible" shooter that can look its age in the $1000 to 1800 range. So here's a few newbie questions 1) for mostly comparable guns what kind of cost difference does the refinishing/reblueing of a gun make, for example, I have seen some refinished guns advertised on the site for the $900 to 1500+ range. What would they be worth in original condition. 2) along the same lines, what are the cost differences between say a gun with matching numbers (except maybe the mag as long as it was period correct) and a parts gun that was put together (reliability concerns?) 3) if you were to recommend a good book of general luger knowledge and lore what would it be?



Thanks in advance for any help, I hope you guys don't get to annoyed with the newbie questions

Mark
(mackey.ms@frontiernet.net)