Stoeger Luger 22 LR steel frame.

[Kyrie]

Originally Posted by ithacaartist

These pistols on GB are the cast aluminum frame version. One can tell by the raised letters for safe and fire. The steel frame pistols have a recessed version of these markings. Pretty sure all else is the same...

Yes sir, about what I expected.

The reason I asked is this is an ERMA design but that design was used by a number of different makers to produce these pistols. I don’t know who did the guns for Stoeger, but suspect it was ERMA. The good news on these pistols is they are fairly cheap to buy. The bad news is they were generally well made but used poor materials. The (not funny) joke is there are two kinds of owners of these .22 rimfire “Lugers”; owners looking for parts and owners who will be looking for parts.

Back roughly 1960 - 1980 ERMA designed, produced, and licensed the production of .22 rimfire versions of the M1 carbine, Walther PPK, and Luger. This gun is an example of the .22 Luger design.

Here is another one, made and sold by ERMA as the model La22:





This example went to the Proof House in West Germany in 1966:



The Spanish gun maker Echave y Arizmendi also produced .22 Lugers using the ERMA design. These are rarely seen here in the USA, but I’m a Spanish gun guy, so:







This gun was run through the Eibar proof house in 1968 (proof year code N*1):



The Lur, like the La22, was well made but of poor materials.

Hope this is of some interest.

Kyrie