Another One

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Dwight and others,

Thanks for your comments on my Frankenluger. I guess it's difficult to tell much about it. I pretty well knew it was a combination of mismatched parts, probably mostly from two guns. I had hoped that the cannon and grip frame manufacturers and the general period of manufacture might be identified.

I should have missed the canon receiver four digit serial number on the front corner sooner. It was probably rebarreled some time ago and the whole thing reblued then since there is similar holster wear on the barrel end, the sideplate high area, and the front end of the rib on the right side of the grip frame. The bluing on the whole gun is pretty good and consistent even where the receiver number has been removed so the removal was probably done before the refinishing.

There is almost no wear on the front and rear grip straps so I suppose the gun was not shot very much since it was rebarreled and refinished (that may be why the barrel is very good). I suspect the receiver number was removed to eliminate any obvious mismatch between the barrel and receiver numbers. I suppose this may have been done during the police reworking (but who knows?).

Oh well, it's still an excellent appearing shooter (if you don't carefully examine the numbers) with a great barrel, a good trigger and I only paid $475 for it.

We'll see if it shoots and, if not, there is another show in February. I can't loose much.