Krieghoff Luger

Vlim · 11-28-2009, 09:07 AM

I examined the frame of a P08 that was found in the Württenberg area last year.

The frame was a common P08 frame, part of a dig find, with a removed stock lug. This seems to indicate that removal of stock lugs was also done for whatever reason in Germany itself.

Personally, I think that some pistols were 'modified' this way under French, British or US allied control in the occupied areas of Germany in the last year of the war. I certainly don't believe that this cutting practice was only done in the USA.

Or someone should explain to me how a German P08 was taken to the US in the 1930s, had it's stock lug ground off, then sent back to Germany and ditched in the Württenberg area only to be retreived some 50 years later.

Of course, anything is possible and proof is lacking, but still.

11-28-2009, 09:07 AM	#20
Vlim Moderator Lifetime LugerForum Patron Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Europe Posts: 5,053 Thanks: 1,036 Thanked 3,990 Times in 1,205 Posts	I examined the frame of a P08 that was found in the Württenberg area last year. The frame was a common P08 frame, part of a dig find, with a removed stock lug. This seems to indicate that removal of stock lugs was also done for whatever reason in Germany itself. Personally, I think that some pistols were 'modified' this way under French, British or US allied control in the occupied areas of Germany in the last year of the war. I certainly don't believe that this cutting practice was only done in the USA. Or someone should explain to me how a German P08 was taken to the US in the 1930s, had it's stock lug ground off, then sent back to Germany and ditched in the Württenberg area only to be retreived some 50 years later. Of course, anything is possible and proof is lacking, but still.