What a deal!

[John Sabato]

Originally Posted by nukem556

No...if a barrel is made correctly to begin with it is "trued" by nature of being turned on a lathe. Rifle barrels are sometimes straightened after manufacturing on a fixture but they're 18-26 inches long....nobodys going to "true" a 4in barrel. As far as the rifling, running a rifling button of the correct specs through a worn bore wont cut any metal, as theres none touching the cutter....this is total BS.

AMEN brother! A rifling button? run through a barrel that is already rifled?

IMNSHO What a crock!

I haven't even looked at the photos or the auction, but if that description is any measure of the item... it doesn't even sound as if it is worth my time to look at it, let alone buy it!
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Okay, so I went to look at it... a buffed and refinished Luger... Ho-Hum... It will make a great SHOOTER, not a collectible. Certainly not worth the asking price... $800 tops.

[sheepherder]

OK, I got a response to my question, from the seller. Here it is:

Me:

Hello! This is a very nice looking Mauser Luger! I am a bit confused, however... Is 'Mauser Restorations' the Mauser factory doing the restoration??? You state "The barrel was turned, trued and rifling pulled for accuracy." I'm not familiar with that operation - Could you explain??? Thank you for your time!

Eric [seller on GB]:

Good morning,

I actually went back to the gentleman I took this on trade from as I'm by no means a great Luger mind, below is his response.

My understanding is the company was Mauser trained in Luger restoration. They were the best and highly recommended. The finished product proved them worthy.
As for the barrel work, I was told these operations were needed to bring the pistol back to original factory spec's as it was out of shape. The re-pulling is a procedure performed on lots of high-end rifles and pistol's to re-shape the lands and clean debris from the edges. It just gives a perfect pathway for gas escape without setting up harmonics to disturb bullet performance. That generally is not something performed at the factory on any gun except for one's like the Remmy I sold you, but if you can imagine trash and particle build-up after all those years, the procedure just made perfect sense. I was having it re-done with all intentions of shooting it and from what he told me from the test bullets the pistol is amazingly accurate.

If there is any more information I can get for you let me know,

So it appears the seller is getting his information from a third party.

I am happy that the seller [Eric] answered my question.

[nukem556]

Hmmmmm....we're gonna need bigger hip-waders....it's reallllly getting deep now!