Shenandoah Valley fun

JTD · 07-23-2016, 08:28 PM

A great gathering of friends this week. Best get together of the year IMO. There were many VERY nice items to see. Stuff you would see nowhere else. Brass was flying. A big thanks to the people who make it happen. John

mrerick · 07-23-2016, 08:58 PM

What a great weekend and visit! Great weather, good food, good company, lots of Lugers... That rack in the first photo held some exceptional and rare pistols.

I brought some Swiss Lugers to show. Two of mine (my 1900/06 and my W+F 1906) are 9,999 serial numbers apart. On another table was a 1900 Swiss that was almost exactly 10,000 ahead of my 1900/06... Go figure...

And firing an AO Thompson to boot!

snipershot1944 · 07-23-2016, 09:54 PM

Great fun. Thanks to all who organized the event.

Eugen · 07-29-2016, 01:26 PM

Looks like some folks were creating a lot of noise and having fun. Thanks for sharing the pics and the story.

wayne8661 · 07-29-2016, 01:55 PM

any way to know who the gentlemen in the pictures are for those of us who only know most of you guys by name?

DonVoigt · 07-29-2016, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by wayne8661

any way to know who the gentlemen in the pictures are for those of us who only know most of you guys by name?

I'm second from the left in the first picture.

Neil Young · 07-29-2016, 06:35 PM

I am on the left in the first photo--the one that Don called the Bulldog. Really now, do I look like a Bulldog? On second thought, don't answer that question.

mrerick · 07-29-2016, 06:42 PM

Neil, I'm thinking more Winston Churchill...

I'm behind the sheriff in the second photo, and that's the out of focus back of my head in the third photo...

Marc

snipershot1944 · 07-29-2016, 10:15 PM

I'm the distinguished grey haired gentleman in the third photo in the blue shirt.

DonVoigt · 07-29-2016, 11:23 PM

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Originally Posted by snipershot1944

I'm the distinguished grey haired gentleman in the third photo in the blue shirt.

Got your "good" side, what luck!

DavidJayUden · 07-29-2016, 11:24 PM

Things always get fun when the blue tarp gets spread on the ground...
dju

JTD · 07-30-2016, 07:32 AM

Yellow shirt

kurusu · 07-30-2016, 04:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrerick

Neil, I'm thinking more Winston Churchill...

I'm behind the sheriff in the second photo, and that's the out of focus back of my head in the third photo...

Marc

I agree.

07-23-2016, 08:28 PM	#1
JTD User Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: PA Posts: 424 Thanks: 217 Thanked 407 Times in 148 Posts	Shenandoah Valley fun A great gathering of friends this week. Best get together of the year IMO. There were many VERY nice items to see. Stuff you would see nowhere else. Brass was flying. A big thanks to the people who make it happen. John Attached Thumbnails

07-23-2016, 08:58 PM	#2
mrerick Super Moderator - Patron LugerForum Life Patron Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Eastern North Carolina, USA Posts: 3,900 Thanks: 1,372 Thanked 3,094 Times in 1,503 Posts	What a great weekend and visit! Great weather, good food, good company, lots of Lugers... That rack in the first photo held some exceptional and rare pistols. I brought some Swiss Lugers to show. Two of mine (my 1900/06 and my W+F 1906) are 9,999 serial numbers apart. On another table was a 1900 Swiss that was almost exactly 10,000 ahead of my 1900/06... Go figure... And firing an AO Thompson to boot! __________________ Igitur si vis pacem, para bellum - - Therefore if you want peace, prepare for war.

07-29-2016, 01:26 PM	#4
Eugen User Join Date: Apr 2016 Location: Newburgh,IN Posts: 768 Thanks: 372 Thanked 603 Times in 320 Posts	Looks like some folks were creating a lot of noise and having fun. Thanks for sharing the pics and the story. __________________ “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” ― Mark Twain

07-29-2016, 06:35 PM	#7
Neil Young Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Scottsboro, Alabama Posts: 540 Thanks: 546 Thanked 438 Times in 165 Posts	I am on the left in the first photo--the one that Don called the Bulldog. Really now, do I look like a Bulldog? On second thought, don't answer that question. __________________ Neil The hurrier I go the behinder I get. Sometimes it takes me all day to get nothing done.

07-29-2016, 06:42 PM	#8
mrerick Super Moderator - Patron LugerForum Life Patron Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Eastern North Carolina, USA Posts: 3,900 Thanks: 1,372 Thanked 3,094 Times in 1,503 Posts	Neil, I'm thinking more Winston Churchill... I'm behind the sheriff in the second photo, and that's the out of focus back of my head in the third photo... Marc __________________ Igitur si vis pacem, para bellum - - Therefore if you want peace, prepare for war.

07-23-2016, 09:54 PM	#3
snipershot1944 User Join Date: May 2003 Location: Virginia, part of the occupied Confederacy Posts: 299 Thanks: 15 Thanked 33 Times in 24 Posts	Great fun. Thanks to all who organized the event.

07-29-2016, 01:55 PM	#5
wayne8661 User Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Kennett Square Pennsylvania Posts: 591 Thanks: 15 Thanked 334 Times in 104 Posts	any way to know who the gentlemen in the pictures are for those of us who only know most of you guys by name?

07-29-2016, 10:15 PM	#9
snipershot1944 User Join Date: May 2003 Location: Virginia, part of the occupied Confederacy Posts: 299 Thanks: 15 Thanked 33 Times in 24 Posts	I'm the distinguished grey haired gentleman in the third photo in the blue shirt.

07-29-2016, 11:24 PM	#11
DavidJayUden Patron LugerForum Patron Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 4,047 Thanks: 578 Thanked 1,414 Times in 887 Posts	Things always get fun when the blue tarp gets spread on the ground... dju

07-30-2016, 07:32 AM	#12
JTD User Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: PA Posts: 424 Thanks: 217 Thanked 407 Times in 148 Posts	Yellow shirt