Problem with Take Down Lever?

Jerry Harris · 09-05-2002, 11:21 PM

John,

By way of clarification - there was a whole thread on the old forum about the kind of hard or "break" line you marked with an arrow. It turned out that 1918 DWM militarys evidently had that line as a standard feature. Several members compared guns to confirm it. The 1918s also had a similar break line on the back of the frame, just above the lanyard bracket.

If such break lines show up on other Luger models and are not typical for that model, they certainly would be consistent with a non-original machining operation.

POSTSCRIPT
I searched the old forum and could not find the thread I mentioned, but did find two relevant ones: Luke's "Interesting machining variation" of 1/5/02, and your (John Sabato's) "Possible serial number fraud on Auction Arms" of 10/10/01

John, I searched backward for 1918 DWM info when I was on the old forum and might have found the thread that way. Would it have been possible for me to look farther back than the present limit of 8 December 2000?

09-05-2002, 11:21 PM	#8
Jerry Harris User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Central Ohio Posts: 64 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	John, By way of clarification - there was a whole thread on the old forum about the kind of hard or "break" line you marked with an arrow. It turned out that 1918 DWM militarys evidently had that line as a standard feature. Several members compared guns to confirm it. The 1918s also had a similar break line on the back of the frame, just above the lanyard bracket. If such break lines show up on other Luger models and are not typical for that model, they certainly would be consistent with a non-original machining operation. POSTSCRIPT I searched the old forum and could not find the thread I mentioned, but did find two relevant ones: Luke's "Interesting machining variation" of 1/5/02, and your (John Sabato's) "Possible serial number fraud on Auction Arms" of 10/10/01 John, I searched backward for 1918 DWM info when I was on the old forum and might have found the thread that way. Would it have been possible for me to look farther back than the present limit of 8 December 2000?