70s Mauser Lugers <img BORDER="0" src='http://forum.rennlist.com/luger/pic.gif'>

Dwight Gruber · 04-07-2002, 08:32 PM

Went to a gun show today with no Luger content whatsoever. However, I did pick up a couple back issues of American Rifleman. One of them, December 1979, has an encyclopedically comprehensive article about Mauser's P.08 production in the '70s, written by Francis C. Allen. Lots of excellent information for anyone collecting these guns. The most interesting comment to me, however, is that Mauser prototyped a .45 cal. P.08, but decided that it was too huge and unwieldy to produce (more's the pity!)

The article has a nice double-page spread photograph of the various models Mauser produced in the 70's, I've scanned it in two sections to include here and in the following message.

--Dwight

http://boards.rennlist.com/upload/MauserLugerLeft.jpg

04-07-2002, 08:32 PM	#1
Dwight Gruber User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 3,908 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1,330 Times in 435 Posts	70s Mauser Lugers Went to a gun show today with no Luger content whatsoever. However, I did pick up a couple back issues of American Rifleman. One of them, December 1979, has an encyclopedically comprehensive article about Mauser's P.08 production in the '70s, written by Francis C. Allen. Lots of excellent information for anyone collecting these guns. The most interesting comment to me, however, is that Mauser prototyped a .45 cal. P.08, but decided that it was too huge and unwieldy to produce (more's the pity!) The article has a nice double-page spread photograph of the various models Mauser produced in the 70's, I've scanned it in two sections to include here and in the following message. --Dwight http://boards.rennlist.com/upload/MauserLugerLeft.jpg

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