Love of Lugers-How it all started

Dwight Gruber · 07-05-2002, 05:59 AM

I had a bakelite faux-Luger single-shot cap gun, it was nearly full sized and extensively detailed (it would probably get you arrested today), before I was eight years old. It fit my hand like a glove, and I recognized even then that it was something special. By the time I was 12 I had bought, on purpose and with my own money, Fred Datig's book. I collected guns and gunsmith-tinkered through high-school, but only had long guns because I was too young to buy handguns.

(A long hiatus, during which I didn't buy guns, and eventually sold most of them. I never lost my interest, and always regretted the sale.)

Six months ago (40 years later) I decided what the heck, there is reallly no reason for me not to indulge. I've been making up for lost time ever since.

--Dwight

07-05-2002, 05:59 AM	#8
Dwight Gruber User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 3,908 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1,330 Times in 435 Posts	I had a bakelite faux-Luger single-shot cap gun, it was nearly full sized and extensively detailed (it would probably get you arrested today), before I was eight years old. It fit my hand like a glove, and I recognized even then that it was something special. By the time I was 12 I had bought, on purpose and with my own money, Fred Datig's book. I collected guns and gunsmith-tinkered through high-school, but only had long guns because I was too young to buy handguns. (A long hiatus, during which I didn't buy guns, and eventually sold most of them. I never lost my interest, and always regretted the sale.) Six months ago (40 years later) I decided what the heck, there is reallly no reason for me not to indulge. I've been making up for lost time ever since. --Dwight