Frankenstein Luger

[Burnt-Offering]

Okay guys, I don't know if anyone here is still following this thread, but just in case I thought I'd give you guys a little update on my Luger progress here.

This weekend was a long weekend here in Canada for "Victoria Day." I hit the ramge Saturday and Sunday and put about 350 rounds through the Luger. It's the most action this gun has seen in at least 40 years.

One thing that happened after 200 rounds on Saturday, once home I noticed I lost one of the little screws on the back toggle. These were the add on sight screws that sombody cobbled on to the back of this thing. I guess one of them worked itself loose and was lost. (A bit of a shame, but I'm not too worried about it. I'm sure I can find replacements and it's not like they were OEM.) You guys weren't kidding about the toggle being a violent place for add ons.

Other than that, no real issues with the piece. The hold open mechanism still comes on more than I'd like but I opened it up and tried to bend a bit on the leaf spring as Rick suggested. It seemed to help a bit but I also made a deal with LugerDoc for some new parts, so hopefully soon those will be coming. I also ordered another pistol to shoot from Marstar, being that this Luger is over a hundred years old I don't want to be going to hard on it.

Still after 350 rounds in two days, I feel like I'm getting better at shooting it. Even without the rear sight, I find it's most acurate for me when I shoot intuitively with both eyes open, either one handed or two handed from a kneeling position. The gun also attracts a lot of attention at the range as most gun people in Canada never get to see these guns.