1916 Navy Luger to my collection

[Rick W.]

Nice Lugers both of them...........

To me, my interests have changed over the years from collecting to other objects of desire, shooting Lugers and ZR1s.

Navy Lugers to me are a dime a dozen, no offense to the collector types, but the pistol below with the aperature rear sight stirs the blood.

Congrats on your new acquisition, hope it stirs the blood for you; that is what it is all about.

Rick

[Arizona Slim]

Originally Posted by skeeter4206

Yeah i dont think there will a bullet down that barrel as long as i have it. And it does not look like many have. That bore is clean and shiny and for the rest of the insides.

Good decision Glenn, as Ron said, "An all matching Navy doesn't grow on trees" My first Luger was an all matching Artillery with the exception of the rear sight, it shot beautifully, that is until about the tenth round when the receiver cracked. Needless to say I was heart broken as I had wanted a Luger for many years.

Lon

[John Sabato]

Originally Posted by Rick W.

Nice Lugers both of them...........

To me, my interests have changed over the years from collecting to other objects of desire, shooting Lugers and ZR1s.

Navy Lugers to me are a dime a dozen, no offense to the collector types, but the pistol below with the aperature rear sight stirs the blood.

Congrats on your new acquisition, hope it stirs the blood for you; that is what it is all about.

Rick

Hey Rick, I don't think they are really a dime a dozen... remember that most of the German Navy Lugers were not captured but probably ended up at the bottom of the sea... that makes the ones that survived a small group of finite numbers in comparison...

[Rick W.]

I reckon to me,............... they are indeed a dime a dozen. Whether they are to others or not, is really up to those folks. I am glad people have a sense of history, as it reminds us of our past, good and bad.

I just cannot place funny money on some iron and steel that high anymore, those folks that made up all of those, lost two wars and their people suffered greatly. With a last name like I got, kinda hits home still.

I know that a lot of this variation was lost, and not recovered. Does not do a lot for the storied mystique for me really.

The poster has a very nice pistol, really both of them from my point of view. The one with the aperature rear sight is the more interesting, after all these years of gun accumulating. I bet it shoots well, a good friend in Berlin did a pistol up like that and shot it on the same range as G. Luger was a previous member.

Value has context..................always will.

Hope you and yours are well up that way, John.

Rick