Site Poll - How Long have you Owned/Collected

[Edward Tinker]

Well I can't match some of these great stories!
That is a heck of a note to get into them Big Norm, but interesting [img]tongue.gif[/img]
With me, for some reason I have always liked 65-68 Mustangs, I was 4 1/2 when they came out and so I imagine that I always saw Stangs going down the road. Who knows. With Lugers, I remember seeing World of Luger ads in the back of gun magazines. As a kid, I wanted to buy guns but that is not as easy, even during the early 70's. So, I would go to yard sales, antique stores and ask, "any swords, guns or bayonets?" And pciked up 3 Arisaka, 2 1917 WW1 US, several german and a rash of others, including a Civial War sword. Bought some guns before I joined the army but Lugers and mustangs always seemed not on the market... I was in Hawaii and saw a 1914 Erfurt all matching (not what I said in owners corner, Lord knows why I said that) and it had been reblued. But it was an artillery and I sold my Colt Python and bought the Erfurt. Then a few years later bought a Mauser 1940 / 42 (later sold it to my brother). So I had two Lugers but while in the army didn't play with them much. My last 7 years in the army were in Europe, no gun shows, no Lugers for sale. I was in a small remote spot and so I only hear a few rumors of Lugers sold through the Sportsmens clubs down in Germany (I was in another country) and so not until I got out of the army and back to the ole US of A the last two years have I gotten into Lugers again.
Always read about them, bought Datig's book years ago, but never other guns until the last year and a half, and now have a couple more [img]smile.gif[/img]