E German DDR Luger

[maddog350gt]

Hi everyone;

Thanks for the info on the DDR, what information is available on these is very scarce and hard to find. What I know is mostly from here and Jan's forum. I had read in Buxton's book that the program was discontinued due to 'a commitment by the Russian's to provide more modern Russian weapons', I think Tom's interpretation might be closer to the truth.

Dwight, I have pictures of the magazine and will try to post them with this reply. My computer started to freeze up last night while I was uploading the pictures so I stopped and posted what I had rather than risk loosing what I had already uploaded.

Ron, you should come up and "hang out" with Dwight and myself, maybe we can get Russ Witham to show up and we can have a mini forum gathering. There is a show April 20-22, let me know if you plan to come up.

Tom A; any chance you could post some pictures of your DDR? I would love to compare them. On yours, what parts are new manufacture and which ones are leftover WWII parts. I am not sure if mine was all DDR at one point and refurbished or if it started with some leftover parts. There is not enough information on these to truly know at this point. Buxton's notes on the P-38 indicated that some leftover parts were interspersed with the new frames barrels etc.

Thanks,
Bob M.
PS; my computer is still hanging up when I try to upload photos, I am sure it's on my side so I'll try to clean things up and upload the magazine latter.
Bob