NiteScout LLC .22LR Luger

mrerick · 01-03-2016, 08:13 PM

I dropped by one of our local gun stores yesterday, and they had this newly manufactured .22LR caliber "Luger"...

Made by "NiteScout LLC" in Waterbury, Connecticut USA is "features" a stamped metal toggle assembly, and what looks and felt like lightweight cast metal frame, barrel and receiver. The barrel was not lined.

Here's a link and some pictures:

https://www.facebook.com/Nitescout-582894048405787/

It looks like a copy of the Stoeger .22LR Luger (right down to the magazines)...

mrerick · 01-03-2016, 08:20 PM

These are new and apparently currently being manufactured. IIRC, the price was in the $400-$450 range, with dealer cost at around $320.

It was not particularly well made. The safety lever felt loose. The company's other products look like stamped metal copies of the UZI and other "evil" looking and inexpensive guns...

ithacaartist · 01-04-2016, 03:26 AM

Sure looks like the Stoeger .22 Lugers, down to the screws piercing the grips in the middle. All the plans and tooling for them had to wind up somewhere, if not destroyed. I'll bet there's a connection.

rhuff · 01-04-2016, 02:35 PM

It is good to see that a company has an interest in the "Luger shape" and toggle action. I agree, it looks an awful lot like the Stoeger .22 models of yesteryear. I think that I have a mag for the Stoeger .22cal. pistol.

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mrerick Super Moderator - Patron LugerForum Life Patron Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Eastern North Carolina, USA Posts: 3,900 Thanks: 1,370 Thanked 3,094 Times in 1,503 Posts	These are new and apparently currently being manufactured. IIRC, the price was in the $400-$450 range, with dealer cost at around $320. It was not particularly well made. The safety lever felt loose. The company's other products look like stamped metal copies of the UZI and other "evil" looking and inexpensive guns... __________________ Igitur si vis pacem, para bellum - - Therefore if you want peace, prepare for war.

01-04-2016, 03:26 AM	#3
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 2,476 Times in 1,319 Posts	Sure looks like the Stoeger .22 Lugers, down to the screws piercing the grips in the middle. All the plans and tooling for them had to wind up somewhere, if not destroyed. I'll bet there's a connection. __________________ "... Liberty is the seed and soil, the air and light, the dew and rain of progress, love and joy."-- Robert Greene Ingersoll 1894

01-04-2016, 02:35 PM	#4
rhuff Patron LugerForum Patron Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Az. Posts: 2,270 Thanks: 2,686 Thanked 958 Times in 704 Posts	It is good to see that a company has an interest in the "Luger shape" and toggle action. I agree, it looks an awful lot like the Stoeger .22 models of yesteryear. I think that I have a mag for the Stoeger .22cal. pistol.