An Oddball Shooter? Or Rarity (Not)

[kenfromalaska]

I sold my last two Lugers in 1989 (minty Krieghoff and Simson), got rid of my books, acessories, etc and moved on, ending up here in Alaska where fortuitously I work in a major league gun shop. All my Lugers then were impeccable, all collector grade etc, nothing oddball....

You dont see a lot of Lugers up here in the Land of only 600,000 odd souls. The other day, however, I snagged one. Its a 1916 Erfurt, stamped Germany on both sides of the frame rails, 60% bluing, all numbers matching....but....

The barrel...its 7.65. It has no proofs, no numbers, no nothing...just a subtly differnt blue...and...

Its crooked...the front sight, which looks straight, is canted off to the right. Now this led me to beleive that some numbnuts screwed a new barrel in...but could this be an orignal? Shouldnt a Germany marked frame have no date on the breech in the 7.65 cal? Or ?????

Anyway, I am ready to rebarrel it to 9 mm, but now I am thinking.....???

The ultimate goal was to have TLSS job, but what if its orignal? Now I would be stuck with a 7.65 that I cant shoot! I gave up that non shooting stuff years ago...

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