Yet another Newb with a new Luger, and some post shoot questions.

[wlyon]

Welcome to the Club. The initials you refer to are inspectors initials put there during manufacture. The barrel appears to be original. The gun has been buffed and reblued. But for a shooter fine. The witness marks appear to be a little off. The barrel was probably removed during the rehab. You might want to have the headspace checked. I am not sure what your problem is on Assembly. Are you getting the lever on the rear toggle correctly placed on the spring each time? I do not use Eagle ammo. My experience with it is awful. I do like the Win. white box. Anyway Welcome and enjoy. Just remember it is habit forming and you will be getting another. Bill

[L1329]

Originally Posted by wlyon

Welcome to the Club. The initials you refer to are inspectors initials put there during manufacture. The barrel appears to be original. The gun has been buffed and reblued. But for a shooter fine. The witness marks appear to be a little off. The barrel was probably removed during the rehab. You might want to have the headspace checked. I am not sure what your problem is on Assembly. Are you getting the lever on the rear toggle correctly placed on the spring each time? I do not use Eagle ammo. My experience with it is awful. I do like the Win. white box. Anyway Welcome and enjoy. Just remember it is habit forming and you will be getting another. Bill

It's possible I didn't get the hook in right, but I did think I made sure to pay close attention to that when reassembling the gun. I'll try it a few more times and see if it happens again.

So since this gun has the same inspector initials on the upper and grip frame, even though they both have different serial numbers, is it feasible that this could be the upper and grip frame that was originally put together? Would this be one of the guns factory assembled from the parts bins? There's plenty of other numbers in there, but it would be nice to know at least the grip frame, upper and barrel went through life together.

The finish, even the wack polishing on the trigger and sear bar, doesn't bother me on this one, it's a range gun and a great intro to the ins and outs of the Luger. But, I can already see that it would be nice to have one still in it's original finish, nicely aged of course!