I still wish I had my 1900 DWM american eagle. It was pristine and I let it go for a song. Young, dumb and listened to someone I thought I could trust. That and I didn't know what i had until a while later. It blew those pistols listed out of the water with regards to it's condition.

Anyone have #15725 out there? I'll buy it back for 3x the money you paid for it.(caveat:what I sold it for) if it's still in the same shape. (only been 28 years...geezus)

At least I got to shoot a box of Win. .30 luger through it. FUN!

Big club, indeed..

I always liked these neat Ari Lugers! Recently handled one from Persia, the owner also has a 1980s Match model.

Met an old guy last week on a response from one of my newspaper militaria ads, Artillery Luger with wood stock, numbers matching,,,,CHROMED,,,I almost cried, he tried to tell me the Germans did it,,,NOT!

Someone broke in recently to my Dad's home and stole his luger amoung others. Not a real high dollar gun as lugers go but it meant the world to him as a war time trophy.

When I was stationed in the Air Force in Germany in 1964/65, my roommate spoke fluent German. He also collected Lugers. He'd knock on doors in the villages and ask if they had a Luger they wanted to sell. Ended up mailing (yes, this was 1965, remember) about 3 dozen like new pistols with holsters - and some unfired - to his folks' home. Usually paid a premium price of around 25-30 US dollars for them as I recall.

Mike

I have a 1920 commercial model in 7.65 Luger that I shoot a Lee cast bullet from. My best five shot group with it at 25 yards is 3/4 inch. I couldn't be more pleased with it. It also shoots to aim point of sights too. I lucked out on it. I haven't found my 7.65 so temperamental to whimpy loads or bullet nose configuration. Before you say it probably has weak spring, I replaced all the spring with new ones. I did have to put a new magazine in it and I used a Meggar which is absolutey flawless.

after WW2, the world shooting championship saw a swiss Parabellum 06/29 win the title @ 50 meters.
A .30 Luger Parabellum is pure joy.

Some eye candy.

My uncle liked them so well that in 1945 he brought one back from Europe. Took it off a German officer of some sort. No word whether he offed the officer or not to get it. Loaned it out to someone he trusted once he got back here and never saw it again...

I have a 1942 byf that has a 6" .30 caliber barrel added to it. The pistol is a little rough, I paid 450 dollars for it some years ago.

But it's a Luger... my Luger

The Parabellum 1900 (not the P 08 that was the regular German Army sidearm) was sold to Russians. The officers purchased their own sidearms and the Parabellum was one of the pistols they preferred although in limited quantity.

Serial number Model 1900 Parabellum Pistols
S/N # Variation
10854 1900 American Eagle 52
11356 1900 Russian 502
12052 1900 Russian 696
12059 1900 Russian 7
12324 1900 Russian 265
12474 1900 Russian 150
12662 1900 Russian 188
12788 1900 Commercial, EJERCITO MEXICANO 126
12821 1900 Russian 33
12880 1900 Commercial, EJERCITO MEXICANO
12918 1900 Russian 97
13181 1900 American Eagle 263

The Bulgarian contract pistols are more common and often mixed up with the Russian commercial contract pistols, markings being in Cyrillic and the word "fire" being written the same way in both languages but "Russian" 1900 Parabellum were not marked in Cyrillic unlike the 1902/1906 model.

Mauser paired pistols as Bulgarian and Russian commemoratives when they remanufactured them.

Very few informations surfaced before 1990 and only a few pistols surfaced after the fall of Soviet Union.

Original "Russian" pistols pictures

My uncle traded his bring back P38 for a cheap .22 rifle for my cousin.

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Originally posted by Duckear:
My uncle traded his bring back P38 for a cheap .22 rifle for my cousin.

Had a childhood friend whose dad took the toggle out of his bring-back Luger. The kid used it for playing army, we could never talk him into letting any of us use it for a day

another- different kid, his dad gave him a Liberator pistol to play army with.

I had to make do with a Mattel Thompson; I had a Schmeisser water gun, too.