Reno Gun Show Highlights...

[Pete Ebbink]

Thought I would start a thread and let folks add their comments about the Reno show this past weekend.

My highlights of the show are threefold :

1. Having dinner with 11 Luger Forum gun nuts !!! What a great evening and what a great bunch of luger fanatics !!! Special thanks to Russ Withem and Doc Fisher for being our generous hosts !!!

2. Seeing Lodi Jim's wonderful John Martz luger collection; all cased in a hand-made 5-gun custom case (made by Jim).

3. Having some fellow named (Edited : Sorry,,,name was "Ron") Kenneth (sorry, his last named escaped me...but hoping others caught it...) from Idaho bring to the show the 2nd. Borchardt pistol ever made. Which he acquired in the mid-1990's. This was the pistol Georg Luger brought to the USA in 1904 (Edited : Oops ! Sorry, I think 1894...) for the Navy to evaluate. Kenneth brought a copy of Edward Scott Meadows book which also showed this gun. Ralph Shattuck did a valuation of the piece as well. The gun in person is well worn, has dents and scratches on the grip plates (identical to the photos in the book), and does not have a serial number and does not have Lowe or DWM or DRP patent number markings on the toggle links. Kenneth let all of us hold and inspect this historical piece and even offered to go out and let us shoot it if we had the ammo...unfortunately no one took up this opportunity...too busy making luger gun deals all over the place...

We did invite Kenneth to join the Luger Forum...maybe he will post photos in the near future.

Looking forward to the November Reno gun show. Lodi Jim has already agreed to co-host the Friday night dinner then. As the time approaches, we will need to get a 2nd. volunteer to be co-host... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

Regards,

Pete... <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />