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lew1 · 02-15-2014, 06:07 PM

I never any Luger squirt guns, nor for that matter any metal luger capguns. Actually I was given a revolver when I was 12 and when I was 15 I went to the gun store (by myself) and, with the money I had saved, purchased a WWII British Enfield revolver, caliber 38 S&W. A couple of years later I purchased a mis-matched Luger to shoot. Still have both handguns. (The grips on the Luger are now taped on, otherwise they will fall off.)

Neil Young · 02-15-2014, 06:31 PM

Thank Goodness there are a few here that are older than I am. That gives me something to shoot for.

mcg · 02-15-2014, 06:58 PM

I turned 55 this year and have been collecting for about half of those years. This hobby has kept my interest and attention through some difficult times, I hope I can return the favor someday.

Mark

fred p · 02-15-2014, 07:09 PM

reaching equinox this April. be 57 born in 57. going on 16......

here's to you crotchety old coots. may you all live another 100 years!

MikeP · 02-15-2014, 07:19 PM

I have a pair of socks I bought for a wedding after I got out of the service.
They are 44 years old.

Edward Tinker · 02-15-2014, 07:44 PM

Lets leave this open but make this easier, see thread on age poll - if you don't want to play, then don't do so

.AGE POLL
http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthread.php?t=32197

Ron Wood · 02-15-2014, 07:50 PM

Hey Ed, I'm too lazy to look for the poll...how about a link?!

Edward Tinker · 02-15-2014, 07:51 PM

I had to make it first

http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthread.php?t=32197

Ron Wood · 02-15-2014, 07:53 PM

Thank you young man! It is nice to see you taking care of the geezers.
Ron

Mike B · 02-15-2014, 08:19 PM

Ladies & Gents,
I am 68. I would like to share a bit or sorrow and ask for prayers. My best friend for many many many years was just diagnosed with prostate and bone cancer. I feel I have part of me in that diagnoses. Please join with me in your prayers. Thanks,

Mike

318is_Parabellum · 02-15-2014, 08:57 PM

Mike B,
Prayers outbound for your friend.

cirelaw · 02-15-2014, 09:24 PM

With an age span of over fifty years amoung us, we all have one thing in common 'Lugers' Ageless Simplasty~~

Jim Solomon · 02-15-2014, 09:59 PM

72 until October. Shot my first luger at age 15.
Jim S.

Arizona Slim · 02-15-2014, 10:49 PM

Ladies & Gents,
I am 68. I would like to share a bit or sorrow and ask for prayers. My best friend for many many many years was just diagnosed with prostate and bone cancer. I feel I have part of me in that diagnoses. Please join with me in your prayers. Thanks,

Mike

I will be glad to include your friend in my prayers Mike, and you too, as it can be very hard to have a close friend or any one we care about go through the uncertainty of a serious illness.
Lon

lew1 · 02-15-2014, 11:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mike B

Ladies & Gents,
I am 68. I would like to share a bit or sorrow and ask for prayers. My best friend for many many many years was just diagnosed with prostate and bone cancer. I feel I have part of me in that diagnoses. Please join with me in your prayers. Thanks,

Mike

My prayers are sent.

Curss · 02-15-2014, 11:37 PM

Prayers sent.

Edward Tinker · 02-16-2014, 12:07 AM

Mike, our wishes and hearts go out to you and yours

Shadowsix · 02-16-2014, 08:17 AM

Just over halfway to 100 since a year ago.

P.S. My prayers are sent for your friend too Mike!

P.P.S. My father bought his first Luger when I was 5 years old in the mid 60's. I didn't have any Luger squirt guns but I my father bought for me in the early 70's and I built them these 1:1 scale plastic models of a few pistols that were realistic functioning plastic models (with light metal springs) that on the semi autos that could be cocked and the plastic firing pin actuated (and the revolver would move single or double action). It came with these two piece plastic bullets where the casing had a hole where the primer goes and the plastic bullet had a stem that when fitted together with the casing the end would fit into the casing's primer hole!

Once built, in the semi autos you could load the magazine, install it, **** and fire the plastic bullet and it would fly about 10ft (of course you had to manually **** it every time)! The revolver you could load the cylinder & fire that too. My father bought me the Luger, 1911, & S&W .38 ones and I loved them, played with them and then at some point my mother (the perpetual spring cleaner) threw them out on me when they got in rough shape.

I don't remember if the were Revell models or whose (I was 10 years old) but I can't find anything on them on the internet though I would love to. They certainly couldn't be sold today as they looked too realistic (like the Borchadt C93 replica from Asia) at least not without an orange tipped barrel (which I'd hate)

ithacaartist · 02-16-2014, 09:51 AM

64 in July, here. I confess to a very late start with handguns, but the allure of the Parabelum pistol finally kicked in around three years ago, and now I have five! This forum is my traditional starting place, backbone, and mainstay of whatever actual knowledge I have accumulated since, so I will take this opportunity to thank everyone involved--John Dunkle, our fearless leader, all the moderators (who are all super moderators in my book), and the many collectors who have worked so hard at this interest over the decades.

Mike, my dad died from pancreatic cancer in 1975, just a week shy of his 70th birthday. It was pretty rough for him, and my heart goes out to your friend for all that must be endured. It is difficult sometimes to accept the indifference displayed by the universe toward our existence, and I wish your friend the best.

David Parker

cirelaw · 02-16-2014, 11:24 AM

God Bless~~

02-15-2014, 06:07 PM	#21
lew1 Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Kentucky Posts: 1,108 Thanks: 82 Thanked 204 Times in 112 Posts	I never any Luger squirt guns, nor for that matter any metal luger capguns. Actually I was given a revolver when I was 12 and when I was 15 I went to the gun store (by myself) and, with the money I had saved, purchased a WWII British Enfield revolver, caliber 38 S&W. A couple of years later I purchased a mis-matched Luger to shoot. Still have both handguns. (The grips on the Luger are now taped on, otherwise they will fall off.) __________________ charlie

02-15-2014, 06:31 PM	#22
Neil Young Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Scottsboro, Alabama Posts: 540 Thanks: 546 Thanked 438 Times in 165 Posts	Thank Goodness there are a few here that are older than I am. That gives me something to shoot for. __________________ Neil The hurrier I go the behinder I get. Sometimes it takes me all day to get nothing done.

02-15-2014, 07:09 PM	#24
fred p User Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: N.C. usa Posts: 86 Thanks: 10 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	reaching equinox this April. be 57 born in 57. going on 16...... here's to you crotchety old coots. may you all live another 100 years! __________________ if it's broke I'll either fix it or I'll fix it so no one else can fix it.

02-15-2014, 07:50 PM	#27
Ron Wood Moderator 2010 LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Santa Teresa New Mexico just outside of the West Texas town of El Paso Posts: 6,986 Thanks: 1,065 Thanked 5,088 Times in 1,674 Posts	Hey Ed, I'm too lazy to look for the poll...how about a link?! __________________ If it's made after 1918...it's a reproduction

02-15-2014, 07:53 PM	#29
Ron Wood Moderator 2010 LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Santa Teresa New Mexico just outside of the West Texas town of El Paso Posts: 6,986 Thanks: 1,065 Thanked 5,088 Times in 1,674 Posts	Thank you young man! It is nice to see you taking care of the geezers. Ron __________________ If it's made after 1918...it's a reproduction

02-15-2014, 06:58 PM	#23
mcg Patron LugerForum Patron Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Houston, TX. Posts: 89 Thanks: 252 Thanked 28 Times in 20 Posts	I turned 55 this year and have been collecting for about half of those years. This hobby has kept my interest and attention through some difficult times, I hope I can return the favor someday. Mark

02-15-2014, 07:19 PM	#25
MikeP User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: ILL Posts: 686 Thanks: 36 Thanked 452 Times in 198 Posts	I have a pair of socks I bought for a wedding after I got out of the service. They are 44 years old.

02-15-2014, 07:44 PM	#26
Edward Tinker Super Moderator Eternal Lifer LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: North of Spokane, WA Posts: 15,909 Thanks: 1,986 Thanked 4,500 Times in 2,076 Posts	Lets leave this open but make this easier, see thread on age poll - if you don't want to play, then don't do so .AGE POLL http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthread.php?t=32197

02-15-2014, 07:51 PM	#28
Edward Tinker Super Moderator Eternal Lifer LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: North of Spokane, WA Posts: 15,909 Thanks: 1,986 Thanked 4,500 Times in 2,076 Posts	I had to make it first http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthread.php?t=32197

02-15-2014, 08:19 PM	#30
Mike B Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: South Louisiana Posts: 979 Thanks: 1 Thanked 271 Times in 99 Posts	how old Ladies & Gents, I am 68. I would like to share a bit or sorrow and ask for prayers. My best friend for many many many years was just diagnosed with prostate and bone cancer. I feel I have part of me in that diagnoses. Please join with me in your prayers. Thanks, Mike

02-15-2014, 08:57 PM	#31
318is_Parabellum User Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: West Virginia Posts: 130 Thanks: 80 Thanked 75 Times in 31 Posts	Mike B, Prayers outbound for your friend.

02-15-2014, 09:24 PM	#32
cirelaw Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: PORT ST LUCIE, FLORIDA Posts: 12,216 Thanks: 6,209 Thanked 4,133 Times in 2,173 Posts	With an age span of over fifty years amoung us, we all have one thing in common 'Lugers' Ageless Simplasty~~

02-15-2014, 09:59 PM	#33
Jim Solomon Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Georgia Posts: 193 Thanks: 695 Thanked 173 Times in 66 Posts	72 until October. Shot my first luger at age 15. Jim S.

02-15-2014, 10:49 PM	#34
Arizona Slim Patron LugerForum Patron Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Illinois Posts: 706 Thanks: 1,026 Thanked 409 Times in 225 Posts	Ladies & Gents, I am 68. I would like to share a bit or sorrow and ask for prayers. My best friend for many many many years was just diagnosed with prostate and bone cancer. I feel I have part of me in that diagnoses. Please join with me in your prayers. Thanks, Mike I will be glad to include your friend in my prayers Mike, and you too, as it can be very hard to have a close friend or any one we care about go through the uncertainty of a serious illness. Lon

02-15-2014, 11:37 PM	#36
Curss User Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Florida Posts: 303 Thanks: 304 Thanked 98 Times in 75 Posts	Prayers sent.

02-16-2014, 12:07 AM	#37
Edward Tinker Super Moderator Eternal Lifer LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: North of Spokane, WA Posts: 15,909 Thanks: 1,986 Thanked 4,500 Times in 2,076 Posts	Mike, our wishes and hearts go out to you and yours __________________ Edward Tinker ************ Co-Author of Police Lugers - Co-Author of Simson Lugers Author of Veteran Bring Backs Vol I, Vol II, Vol III and Vol IV

02-16-2014, 08:17 AM	#38
Shadowsix User Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 106 Thanks: 56 Thanked 26 Times in 18 Posts	Just over halfway to 100 since a year ago. P.S. My prayers are sent for your friend too Mike! P.P.S. My father bought his first Luger when I was 5 years old in the mid 60's. I didn't have any Luger squirt guns but I my father bought for me in the early 70's and I built them these 1:1 scale plastic models of a few pistols that were realistic functioning plastic models (with light metal springs) that on the semi autos that could be cocked and the plastic firing pin actuated (and the revolver would move single or double action). It came with these two piece plastic bullets where the casing had a hole where the primer goes and the plastic bullet had a stem that when fitted together with the casing the end would fit into the casing's primer hole! Once built, in the semi autos you could load the magazine, install it, ** and fire the plastic bullet and it would fly about 10ft (of course you had to manually ** it every time)! The revolver you could load the cylinder & fire that too. My father bought me the Luger, 1911, & S&W .38 ones and I loved them, played with them and then at some point my mother (the perpetual spring cleaner) threw them out on me when they got in rough shape. I don't remember if the were Revell models or whose (I was 10 years old) but I can't find anything on them on the internet though I would love to. They certainly couldn't be sold today as they looked too realistic (like the Borchadt C93 replica from Asia) at least not without an orange tipped barrel (which I'd hate) Last edited by Shadowsix; 02-16-2014 at 12:58 PM. Reason: P.P.S.

02-16-2014, 09:51 AM	#39
ithacaartist Twice a Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Atop the highest hill in Schuyler County NY Posts: 3,283 Thanks: 7,007 Thanked 2,477 Times in 1,320 Posts	64 in July, here. I confess to a very late start with handguns, but the allure of the Parabelum pistol finally kicked in around three years ago, and now I have five! This forum is my traditional starting place, backbone, and mainstay of whatever actual knowledge I have accumulated since, so I will take this opportunity to thank everyone involved--John Dunkle, our fearless leader, all the moderators (who are all super moderators in my book), and the many collectors who have worked so hard at this interest over the decades. Mike, my dad died from pancreatic cancer in 1975, just a week shy of his 70th birthday. It was pretty rough for him, and my heart goes out to your friend for all that must be endured. It is difficult sometimes to accept the indifference displayed by the universe toward our existence, and I wish your friend the best. David Parker __________________ "... Liberty is the seed and soil, the air and light, the dew and rain of progress, love and joy."-- Robert Greene Ingersoll 1894

02-16-2014, 11:24 AM	#40
cirelaw Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: PORT ST LUCIE, FLORIDA Posts: 12,216 Thanks: 6,209 Thanked 4,133 Times in 2,173 Posts	God Bless~~