Matching Luger question - Don't Shoot!

[bill m]

Hi,

There are a few small parts that one can tell have been changed if you know what to look for, like the extractor on a Mauser, or the side plate, but most like the rear connecting pin or the trigger in my opinion can not be detected. You are not committing fraud as you are restoring the gun back to an all matching gun from one that isn't. Someone else replaced the part with an incorrect one, and you can speculate all you want as to who, and what there reason was. This does not change the fact that the gun does not now have all matching numbers. You own the gun and you put a value on what is important to you -- all matching or not. In my opinion one should feel good to have restored a piece back to all matching, and shouldn't feel on bit guilty about replacing a mismatched part. Think about this, if you did not personally pick the Luger up at the factory, how do you know that any matching Luger is all original?