WTK: 1936 Mauser Luger

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by DavidJayUden

OK, just for the sake of conversation, shouldn't the entire gun be view with greater suspicion if one of the magazines has been boosted?
dju

Grinding/sanding/filing an aluminum magazine base and re-stamping numbers isn't too technical a job. It can be done in your basement with cheap Harbor Freight tools, with no 'finishing' required. The steel pistol itself is a bigger undertaking, and the surface finishing would likely be beyond most amateur mechanics (it's beyond my skillset).

Years ago, I replaced two Luger barrels and stamped the receiving pistol's number and land measurement in them. Not to raise perceived value, but because if the originals had them, it seemed to me the Numrich replacements should too. I imagine many enthusiasts feel the same way about magazines.