What Is Your Favotrite?

cirelaw · 04-09-2011, 06:12 PM

Bar none is my 1920 9mm Luger Carbine

Ron Wood · 04-09-2011, 06:19 PM

I like the ones with the toggle action.

cirelaw · 04-09-2011, 07:24 PM

Ron, How many varieties were there? I can't find much written on this one.

cirelaw · 04-09-2011, 07:32 PM

Simpson has a most beautiful luger carbine stock for $675, Its a almost dead on accurate, especially its hardware. Please take a look. Maybe a spare!!

cirelaw · 04-09-2011, 07:40 PM

OOPPS,The carbine stock Simpson is selling is missing the all to important srew swivel. Have you ever seen a swivel replica?

Hugo Borchardt · 04-09-2011, 11:28 PM

Eric:

Beautiful! I concur with Ron; every one has its own character and appeal!

Clark

Edward Tinker · 04-10-2011, 04:14 AM

Ok, I will take a stand, my favorite is one of these three

1. Test Luger / bannerman number (but I have to settle for a in range right now, and yes, I have owned 1 or 2 test numbers

)
2. 1900 American Eagle
3. 1925 Simson

Ed

SteveM · 04-10-2011, 09:13 AM

1900 AE, because it was my first. I was 14 yrs old when it found it's way to me.

cirelaw · 04-10-2011, 10:06 AM

Ed, why is it we don't hear much around Simsons? Until Your book I was unaware they even existed?

cirelaw · 04-10-2011, 10:18 AM

I wondered wheather there has ever been a firearm other than our favorite with so many varieties or models.

Edward Tinker · 04-10-2011, 10:19 AM

There were only 12,000 made, so you encounter them less, plus not as well made as the Krieghoff, but to be fair to them, they also were made 10 years before the Kreigs, so they were used much longer and harder, as they were issued straight to the military and police.

Ed

cirelaw · 04-10-2011, 10:25 AM

What is their rarest variation?

Edward Tinker · 04-10-2011, 10:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cirelaw

I wondered wheather there has ever been a firearm with so many varieties or models. Just how many are there?

Eric, I know you have asked this recently and no one has answered you.

I think its because no one knows, some writers have speculated that there are something like 250-350 variations. Military, Police and commercial....

Since it was made by Erfurt, DWM, Simson, Krieghoff and Mauser and then the Swiss, plus each model, the amount is in the hundreds, unless you just counted the specific 'model variations", then it would be a score or so?

Ed

cirelaw · 04-10-2011, 10:55 AM

Ed its just so facinating to me. Authors like yourself have been so monumental in keeping it interesting and alive. Twenty years from now its your words that will have written the history for which they will stay alive. You not only write history but from whom it will be judged. A pat on your back and a few others are classically justified!

Edward Tinker · 04-10-2011, 11:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cirelaw

What is their rarest variation?

Of Simson's

in this order

1926 dated Simson
1925 dated Simson
S toggle
police Simson (whether S toggle or Simson toggle)

cirelaw · 04-10-2011, 11:46 AM

Thank You, I'm going to spend sometime with your book today!

StarOfTheWest · 04-10-2011, 01:49 PM

I love them all.
Each has a story, from the rarest of the rare, to the old beat to death "junkyard dog".
Every one speaks to me, and I do my best to listen.
It's like trying to pick your favorite child, or dog.
Can't really compare one to another, except for $.

cirelaw · 04-10-2011, 01:52 PM

Donna truer words have never been typed!! But I would love to adopt a few of your!

Jasta2 · 04-10-2011, 01:56 PM

Most any correct Navy!

cirelaw · 04-10-2011, 02:02 PM

an 1908 Navy

04-09-2011, 06:12 PM	#1
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	What Is Your Favotrite? Bar none is my 1920 9mm Luger Carbine Attached Thumbnails

04-09-2011, 06:19 PM	#2
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	I like the ones with the toggle action. __________________ If it's made after 1918...it's a reproduction

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Hugo Borchardt User Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Tennessee Posts: 370 Thanks: 338 Thanked 131 Times in 47 Posts	Eric: Beautiful! I concur with Ron; every one has its own character and appeal! Clark __________________ My militaria collection is dedicated to the memory of my Grandfather, Marine Gunnery Sergeant Dave Hill, Jr., wounded in action at The Assault of the Second Marine Division on Betio Island, Tarawa Atoll, 20-23 November, 1943. http://www.tarawa1943.com/pages/casualties%20tarawa.htm

04-10-2011, 10:19 AM	#11
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	There were only 12,000 made, so you encounter them less, plus not as well made as the Krieghoff, but to be fair to them, they also were made 10 years before the Kreigs, so they were used much longer and harder, as they were issued straight to the military and police. Ed __________________ 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

04-10-2011, 01:49 PM	#17
StarOfTheWest User Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: East Texas, CSA Posts: 208 Thanks: 81 Thanked 15 Times in 12 Posts	I love them all. Each has a story, from the rarest of the rare, to the old beat to death "junkyard dog". Every one speaks to me, and I do my best to listen. It's like trying to pick your favorite child, or dog. Can't really compare one to another, except for $. __________________ Sorry, I take that back. I have no problem with the horse you rode in on.

04-09-2011, 07:24 PM	#3
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	Ron, How many varieties were there? I can't find much written on this one.

04-09-2011, 07:32 PM	#4
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	Simpson has a most beautiful luger carbine stock for $675, Its a almost dead on accurate, especially its hardware. Please take a look. Maybe a spare!!

04-09-2011, 07:40 PM	#5
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	OOPPS,The carbine stock Simpson is selling is missing the all to important srew swivel. Have you ever seen a swivel replica?

04-10-2011, 04:14 AM	#7
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	Ok, I will take a stand, my favorite is one of these three 1. Test Luger / bannerman number (but I have to settle for a in range right now, and yes, I have owned 1 or 2 test numbers ) 2. 1900 American Eagle 3. 1925 Simson Ed

04-10-2011, 09:13 AM	#8
SteveM User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Texas Posts: 1,016 Thanks: 94 Thanked 275 Times in 137 Posts	1900 AE, because it was my first. I was 14 yrs old when it found it's way to me.

04-10-2011, 10:06 AM	#9
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	Ed, why is it we don't hear much around Simsons? Until Your book I was unaware they even existed?

04-10-2011, 10:18 AM	#10
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	I wondered wheather there has ever been a firearm other than our favorite with so many varieties or models.

04-10-2011, 10:25 AM	#12
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	What is their rarest variation?

04-10-2011, 10:55 AM	#14
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	Ed its just so facinating to me. Authors like yourself have been so monumental in keeping it interesting and alive. Twenty years from now its your words that will have written the history for which they will stay alive. You not only write history but from whom it will be judged. A pat on your back and a few others are classically justified!

04-10-2011, 11:46 AM	#16
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	Thank You, I'm going to spend sometime with your book today!

04-10-2011, 01:52 PM	#18
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	Donna truer words have never been typed!! But I would love to adopt a few of your!

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Jasta2 User Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Lakeland, Fl. Posts: 514 Thanks: 349 Thanked 101 Times in 52 Posts	Most any correct Navy!

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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	Can't beet an 1908 Navy Attached Images