$30 Pistol

If I didn't know better I would think that I just gave some crack head his next fix, but I know the guy personally and he set the price. From what I've gathered it was made late 40s early 50s and has an all steel parts, with real wood grips. I love it, it's a true piece of americana and is well worth over $200. It was sold to me "for parts" because it would no longer fire. I bought it, brought it home and found that the connecting rod had come off of the trigger. I reconnected it, and added a new part to it and it seems to be working fine. Cool

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Cool, that would make a nice little survival pistol Cool

eric

lucky lugur onwner

	turd wrote:
	Cool, that would make a nice little survival pistol eric

That's what I thought too, but my 1911A1 is lighter than this little guy. Shocked

It sure is an ugly little pistol isn't it. Laughing

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Last edited by Azarcher on Sat Jun 02, 2007 1:04 pm; edited 1 time in total

do you own a glock?

It has kind of a weird lookin trigger, but I like it Very Happy

eric

	gearjunky wrote:
	do you own a glock?

G19, but I love my 1911A1 more than the "tactical tupperware" Laughing

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	It has kind of a weird lookin trigger, but I like it

Yeah it's strange. It has a half circle trigger. There is the trigger, but it also loops over your finger and back infront of it too. The fire control group is also something I've never seen before. The trigger has a long rod connecting to a small sear that hold the hammer back. The hammer is a huge (for a .22) moon shaped thing with a ton of spring force behind it. The trigger pulls the sear towards the hammer, and somehow disengages it, even though it looks like it should engage the sear to the hammer tighter. Confused

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Took the "ugly duckling" out today for a trial run. It worked fine as long as I shot slowly, but as soon as I dumped a mag the connecting rod would come off again. What it is, it just a tiny piece of metal that the rod catches, and if it's just slightly off then it misses it completly stopping everything. It's actually really acurate for a .22 pistol, the weight of it helps a lot for holding it steady, and it was very easy to put 50 rounds in a spot that I could cover up with my closed fist at 25 yards off hand. I like it, and got a lot of compliments on it while shooting it. I'm happy as a pig in.... uh... mud. Wink

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you guys are nuts, that thing is beautiful!

Are you going to try to fix it?

eric

	turd wrote:
	Are you going to try to fix it? eric

Yeah I guess there is a guy around here somewhere who is obsessed with the Luger pistols. He has something like 200 of the Nazi germany ones, as well as many of the models including a really rare .45ACP one. He is the guy I need to find to see if there is anything I can do to make it more reliable.

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	Azarcher wrote:
	I love it, it's a true piece of americana

	Azarcher wrote:
	He has something like 200 of the Nazi germany ones

I don't get it, how can it be a true piece of Americana if it's a Germany gun?

eric

The luger was designed by a german, George Luger. He made it based off another gun that had a similar action. This was around WWI or so, Early 1900, and as soon as the pistol was complete he traveled the world trying to find military contracts for it. Switzerland started to produce it, and adopted it for it's army. Then Luger came to the US and started trying to get his pistol adopted there as well. Lugers pistol was taken, and combined with another pistol made by browning which later became the 1911 pistol. The entire time this was going on they were being sold in America, but they never caught on because of their high price. The military was also concerned that the small round of the luger, 7.65 caliber for the swiss, Luger designed a new round which became the 9mm Luger, or what we know today as the standard 9mm. The german army adopted the Luger through out WWI, and then start to phase them out in WWII for the P38, the swiss got rid of them in the '40s for more modern gun, but many are still in use by police forces. The US who now owned the patent through the US company "stroger" since about 1920 started making them again for sale in the states. My pistol was made off of that patent, which is the same (more or less) the same patent that was filed by George Luger himself. The pistols was well recieved here in the States, but were looked upon as a target pistol, and was still much too expensive considering all the Colt, and Browning pistols on the market for much less. So as you can see the Luger pistol has a lot of history here in the US, including have a large part in the American 1911 that I love so dear. Cool

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	gearjunky wrote:
	do you own a glock?

I've been saving for a Glock 19c (compensated), and wanting to outfit it with a laser sight. Beautiful handgun.

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Ok, cool

You sure know you guns, Azarcher Very Happy

eric

	Daffy wrote:
	you guys are nuts, that thing is beautiful!

Yep, absolutely. Great handgun, Azarcher!

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	turd wrote:
	Ok, cool You sure know you guns, Azarcher eric

Yeah I'm full of useless knowledge about them. I'm the guy you don't want to ask a question at the range either. Embarassed

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	you guys are nuts, that thing is beautiful

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	Yep, absolutely. Great handgun.

Yeah I guess it is pretty cool looking. It just fits the hand so nice, and when shooting it, it's just like you are pointing your finger at the target. Cool

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	I've been saving for a Glock 19c (compensated), and wanting to outfit it with a laser sight. Beautiful side arm.

Those are really nice pistols too. Cool

The only reason I didn't go with one of those was because I figured if I ever had to shoot at night, my night vision would be destroyed because of the double flame shooting out the top, and then doing a selfdefense shot from the hip might leave me with a charcloth t-shirt. Laughing

No idea if either of those are based on fact or not, but that's just what I thought. I do really, really, REALLY want a G21 though. I love that pistol, so beefy, and powerful with the .45 ACP and all. *drool* Laughing

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Azarcher wrote:

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	I've been saving for a Glock 19c (compensated), and wanting to outfit it with a laser sight. Beautiful side arm.

Those are really nice pistols too. Cool

The only reason I didn't go with one of those was because I figured if I ever had to shoot at night, my night vision would be destroyed because of the double flame shooting out the top, and then doing a selfdefense shot from the hip might leave me with a charcloth t-shirt. Laughing

No idea if either of those are based on fact or not, but that's just what I thought. I do really, really, REALLY want a G21 though. I love that pistol, so beefy, and powerful with the .45 ACP and all. *drool* Laughing

You know, that's an interesting thought, about the port-flames in the "c" model. I've never really paid attention to it myself, hasn't bothered me, and I am normally focusing on the laser dot... but then I've only been firing one in an indoor range and not in night conditions. Hmm... now ya' got me thinkin'! Laughing

I'll check it out at the range this week.

Yep, you're right, the G21 is very sweet! Little too much gun for me, but I get the sense you're a .45 aficionado. Very Happy

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Yep, I love my .45ACP. Embarassed

Although I don't think I'm a 1911 snob either, because I have two 9mm pistols. One P9 from Khar, and the G19. Both are great guns, and preform awsome. I can appriciate having a nice Glock on my hip with all those fancy rounds available. I also looked into the XD pistols and found that they are almost a hybrid of the Glocks and the 1911s, those are also an option for me to think about. The only real beef I have with Glocks are the saftey, or lack of saftey. I don't consider the trigger saftey a true saftey and that kind of bothers me a bit. We had a class that showed a glock going off when being reholstered. Once the leather strap caught itself in the trigger guard and dropped the hammer, and the other one was those little plastic adjusters a lot of the rain jackets/wind breakers have on them doing the same thing. This wasn't a "sun must be out, has to be 1:32:50 AM on the third wednesday of the third month even even year" type thing either. Everytime it was put away it would snap the cap. That left me a little uneasy carrying the G19, and even now I catch myself hesitating before putting it in the holster.

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