Finnish Military Lugers

Ron Wood · 06-19-2002, 05:27 PM

Hi Luke
The best reference I have found is John Walter's "The Luger Book", originally printed in 1986 and reprinted in 1991. He has a section on Finland that provides the most information on Finnish Lugers that I have found so far. I have one that is a Century Arms import like Kyrie's, and marked in the same manner except that it has the Finnish replacement barrel made by Oy Tikkakoski (I particularly wanted one with the Finn barrel). It is the same length as the early DWM 7.65 barrels, 120mm, but is much "fatter" due to the 9mm caliber. I am looking for a grip or just the brass unit marking disk, found on some of the Finnish Lugers. All of the pictures of these disks for Army unit Lugers that I have seen are for machine-gun companies of rifle battalions. I missed out on a nice one in an auction about a year ago.

06-19-2002, 05:27 PM	#3
Ron Wood Moderator 2010 LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Santa Teresa New Mexico just outside of the West Texas town of El Paso Posts: 7,051 Thanks: 1,121 Thanked 5,287 Times in 1,728 Posts	Hi Luke The best reference I have found is John Walter's "The Luger Book", originally printed in 1986 and reprinted in 1991. He has a section on Finland that provides the most information on Finnish Lugers that I have found so far. I have one that is a Century Arms import like Kyrie's, and marked in the same manner except that it has the Finnish replacement barrel made by Oy Tikkakoski (I particularly wanted one with the Finn barrel). It is the same length as the early DWM 7.65 barrels, 120mm, but is much "fatter" due to the 9mm caliber. I am looking for a grip or just the brass unit marking disk, found on some of the Finnish Lugers. All of the pictures of these disks for Army unit Lugers that I have seen are for machine-gun companies of rifle battalions. I missed out on a nice one in an auction about a year ago. __________________ If it's made after 1918...it's a reproduction