1917 DWM Artillery

TheRomanhistorian · 02-15-2015, 05:29 PM

I finally found some time to take photos after the hubbub of Valentine's Day (homemade beef stroganoff with cheesecake, etc... and I can only say that all this was well-received which means I get to buy more pistols!).

Here are some better photos though it was perhaps too bright today. The magazine has had some weird modified magazine button added to it which seemed to prevent the toggle from unlocking and chambering a round (I had to fire it one round at a time to test things and had to carefully chamber as I think that weird mag button kept the toggle from properly working). The pistol functioned flawlessly with my Triple K magazines and other original Luger magazines (and it also liked this Danish magazine I got from Lugerdoc).

It's a a refinish though not a bad one but the finish is thinning near the safety and the DWM is pretty much faded due to overzealous buffing. The magazine it came with looks like a spare magazine with the + sign, it's marked M.W. 24./9158/Markings which were crossed out/+ (from top to bottom).

02-15-2015, 05:29 PM	#1
TheRomanhistorian User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 301 Thanks: 170 Thanked 88 Times in 64 Posts	I finally found some time to take photos after the hubbub of Valentine's Day (homemade beef stroganoff with cheesecake, etc... and I can only say that all this was well-received which means I get to buy more pistols!). Here are some better photos though it was perhaps too bright today. The magazine has had some weird modified magazine button added to it which seemed to prevent the toggle from unlocking and chambering a round (I had to fire it one round at a time to test things and had to carefully chamber as I think that weird mag button kept the toggle from properly working). The pistol functioned flawlessly with my Triple K magazines and other original Luger magazines (and it also liked this Danish magazine I got from Lugerdoc). It's a a refinish though not a bad one but the finish is thinning near the safety and the DWM is pretty much faded due to overzealous buffing. The magazine it came with looks like a spare magazine with the + sign, it's marked M.W. 24./9158/Markings which were crossed out/+ (from top to bottom). Attached Thumbnails __________________ Michael Nos morituri te salutant - Supposed saying of the gladiators to the emperor ('We, who are about to die, salute you.') 'We are the lantern bearers, my friend; for us to keep something burning, to carry what light we can forward into the darkness and the wind' - From Rosemary Sutcliff's The Lantern Bearers