Please help Luger Artillery newb: molested barrel (ewe!)?

[1917garkunkel]

Originally Posted by ithacaartist

The relief notch for the original rear sight leaf clearance is on the frame, which means that this would started out as an artillery. Strictly speaking, I'd call it an Artillery with two major issues. I agree with Doug about the rear toggle link. Way too bad about the barrel... But it is reminiscent of commercial Lugers Stoeger might have re-barreled in the 20s? Aside from the aesthetics and finer points of the approach used on the former rear sight, an 8" Luger with standard sights looks just fine to me. And it would have a sight radius of about a foot. It should be a gas to shoot!

Ahh, cool. you're talking about that little flat that runs transverse just about 1/2" toward the front from the '1917'... hmm, cool observation.

The number stamped into the rear toggle... at first looks like a 32, then i realize the original font would make that first number a 7 then there's definitely a 2... but there's weird stuff going on there: definitely some over-stamping and another strange symbol or lettering/numbering at the upper area of those numbers. Would you happen to know if Stoeger used to stamp their own info on the guns they de-flowered?

i guess it's a little cumbersome to thank everyone individually, so, going forward i'll just exude it and know that you know what i mean.

-Ross