New member with a Luger project

[tater134]

Nathan, I have worked up several pistols into shooters worse than this one. One neat thing about restoring it to shooter condition will be the lessons learned..Nothing like taking a Luger down to the last pin and spring to familiarize yourself with one.

The appeal of a project like this one is the learning experience not the resale value of the piece when its done. I've bought many project guns already and most of them came out looking pretty nice when I was done with them. (I was one of the guys buying those awful looking Gew88's that were imported a few years ago and fixing them up) I hate to see older firearms end up in the junk pile if there's still a chance they can be put back into working condition.

How is the bore? Usually the outside can look rough and the inside like new. There are quite a few$$ parts missing though! But since you don't have much in it..

The bore is pretty cruddy looking. I may pick up a new barrel since Sarco has them for $89.95. There is a parts dealer near me that may have some decent used ones cheaper than that so I may give him a call tomorrow to see what hes got.

I have one slight concern though and that is..it looks like it may have been in a fire? Maybe not

The story I got with the gun was that it sat in water for awhile which caused the pitting in the photos. This pistol does still have some original bluing in some areas that were hidden (under the toggle) and I would think a fire gun would have no finish at all since all the fire salvaged guns I've come across were extremely rusted because of the affects of the heat.