I Have No Idea Which Luger This Is

[Dariof]

Originally Posted by Mac Cat

Welcome to the forum and thanks for sharing you treasure.

Its an early commercial luger with a 5 digits serial number.
We call it an "AE" because the American Eagle image is on the chamber.
GERMANY was stamped on it because it was intended for export, probably to the US.

7.65mm is sometimes called .30 cal Luger.
It's pretty hard to find right now.
It was pretty easy to find on-line two years ago - it seems to go in cycles.

If you are a reloader, you can look for the brass.

Thank you. I purchased Starline Brass, the RCBS 2-die set, the Dillon Neck Expander funnel and a Lee crimper. I'll disable the crimping and the neck expander on the RCBS dies.

For the projectile I purchased the Hornady .308, 90 GR Hollow point. I'm hoping the hollow point feeds. I think it will because of the shape.

I worked up loads with Quick Load, using both AA7 and Unique. I'm sitting around 6.8 GR AA7 and 4.0 GR Unique. Both give me around 1/2 max pressure the gun will handle, so it should be safe and hopefully cycle the action. I'll find out. I will chrono all loads to get standard deviation and then balance that against the groups.

Always fun working up loads for a new firearm.

Next...the M1 Carbine I also got from my Dad. He and I shot that all the time as I was growing up, many decades ago.