Lugers With Ground-off Stock Lugs Data Request

[Don M]

Originally Posted by regul

Don;
I dont know if this will help but my 1920 Commercial DWM .30 Cal., 3-7/8 barrel shooter serial #633 (o) has the stock lug ground so heavily there is a hole in the back grip strap.

Looks like Bubba got ahold of this one.

Barring receipt of new information, I have concluded that two Weimar-era police units removed stock lugs, almost certainly at the insistence of French occupation forces:
* The Hessische Polizei (H.P.) in the occupied portions of Hessen recieved newly manufactured Lugers from BKIW (in the upper u and lower v series) in late 1929 and/or early 1930. There are many examples and all have their stock lugs very professionally removed. There are a number of older Lugers with H.P. markings that do have stock lugs. I believe these were issued earlier to the Schupo outside of the occupation zone.
* The Prussian Schupo in the occupied city of Wiesbaden also removed stock lugs very professionally. Although only three examples are known to me, I a very confident that this modification was done during the French occupation. They all are marked S.W.II.

(See HWIS Chapters 8 and 16.)

Based on this, I think it is highly likely that any Luger with a ground stock lug that is not marked H.P. or S.W.II. was altered here in the good old U.S. of A.