Help ID commercial 12" barrel

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Thank you all for your informative and fast responses!

Sheepherder, the barrel is canted about 2 degrees to the right as you look down the barrel. I have attached a picture of the marks left by someone messing with it previously. I do not have any suitable gun smithing tools to tackle this job myself and would be afraid of screwing it up more if I did. The rear sight is fitted in a dove tail groove on the barrel and I do not see any sign of soldering. It would be great if we could determine if this was an original DWM barrel too. Thanks again.

dju- I am definitely looking forward to shooting this sucker. The long sight radius should make it a tack driver. I really enjoy shooting pistols past the ranges they were designed for and this one should do a good job if I do my part. Thanks for your comments.

John S.- Thanks for your comments and your caution. It would indeed be more fun with a stock with proper paper work, but I agree, not worth a trip to the joint without it. Your comment got me thinking though. I do have a Mauser C96 with original stock and it is listed as GCA exempt in the ATF curio and Relics manual. This would allow me to legally put the stock on and fire it without the SBR form. I took a look in the latest C&R manual and it has listed the following in Section III
, Guns removed from NFA and reclassified to C&R:

" Luger, the 1920 Commercial Artillery model, pistols as mfd. by DWM or Erfurt, having undated chambers, commercial proofmarks, and bearing the inscription Germany or Made in Germany on the receiver and accompanied by original, German mfd., artillery type, detachable wooden shoulder stocks."

It seem that if I were to find an original stock of this era, I could use it without having to file the form to SBR the pistol. Thank you and you have got me doing some research!

Lugerdoc - The rear sight is exactly as you have described. It is good to know that this may have been deliberately put together and is an authentic "variation" rather than a one off constructed by a garage gunsmith. Unfortunately, I do not have Lugers at Random in the library yet but will try to reference that book. Do you do this type of work to fix these problems? I would be afraid to take it to just any gunsmith in my area.

Sergio - Thanks for the comment, I am pretty excited about this one too!


Thanks again to all of you for your advice and comments. Adam