new pistole showed up at my house last night!

[Jim Mac]

Had some wood tools I no longer wanted. So I advertised them on backpage as a package deal for trade. I got a offer of a iccs? .22 pistol which looks nice and all for a modern gun but I also got a offer on a 1921 Artra 400. Numbers match, 1 grip is cracked, its ugly, ammo is available but more expesive than a .22.
So which do I choose? The astra of course! the serial number put it as issued to the army in 1924. Totallly not practical, but if I was into practical type guns, Id be registered over on glock talk or someplace with the newer types of guns. Wife cant understand the facination with the older weapons. Besides the lugers, ive picked up a P1 walther, arisaka 7.7, nagant revolver and I have a CZ52. One of these days when I pass these things to the kid, she's going to look at the collection and wonder why dad didnt buy newer guns. (I do have a glock, cz75, AR's and others. ) but do like the old stuff. jim