Mauser Interarms Lugers Question--NEWBIE HERE

03-19-2002, 10:19 AM

Mark,

If you do a Message Board "search" for the topic "Interarms", you should get lots of Forum folks' pros & cons...

There are some nice photos of the 6" swiss style on Guns-America...

I recently bought my 6", 9mm swiss NIB from a Forum member, Tom Heller, at hellerarms.com for $ 825.00 + shipping & insurance. It's a lovely luger.

Yes it has some machining marks and is dipped blue, but I did not care. I was looking for my first luger and wanted a decent shooter.

I went against some advice and made my NIB a shooter. It is a brand new gun and I did not want to possibly chase replacement parts and nurse an older shooter. To me this 6", 9mm gives me all the benefits of shooting a Navy without the costs of $ 4-6K and even higher to get a real Navy. And it has that radical swiss-style front grip...

My Mauser-Interarms, out of the box, is my most accurate shooter (out of 11 different guns, many with 6" bbl and adjustable sights...).

If you read the Forum search results; you will see that some luger purist do not consider these as real lugers, while others do and place them in the 4th. luger era (post WWII), right behind the other luger eras (the Imperial, the Weimar, and the 3rd. Reich eras...). This is a debate that has no right answer and a debate that will not end...

I, too, am a luger beginner; so take my opinions with a grain of salt, as they say...

03-19-2002, 10:19 AM	#5
Wm. "Pete" Ebbink Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Mauser Interarms Lugers Question--NEWBIE HERE Mark, If you do a Message Board "search" for the topic "Interarms", you should get lots of Forum folks' pros & cons... There are some nice photos of the 6" swiss style on Guns-America... I recently bought my 6", 9mm swiss NIB from a Forum member, Tom Heller, at hellerarms.com for $ 825.00 + shipping & insurance. It's a lovely luger. Yes it has some machining marks and is dipped blue, but I did not care. I was looking for my first luger and wanted a decent shooter. I went against some advice and made my NIB a shooter. It is a brand new gun and I did not want to possibly chase replacement parts and nurse an older shooter. To me this 6", 9mm gives me all the benefits of shooting a Navy without the costs of $ 4-6K and even higher to get a real Navy. And it has that radical swiss-style front grip... My Mauser-Interarms, out of the box, is my most accurate shooter (out of 11 different guns, many with 6" bbl and adjustable sights...). If you read the Forum search results; you will see that some luger purist do not consider these as real lugers, while others do and place them in the 4th. luger era (post WWII), right behind the other luger eras (the Imperial, the Weimar, and the 3rd. Reich eras...). This is a debate that has no right answer and a debate that will not end... I, too, am a luger beginner; so take my opinions with a grain of salt, as they say...