replica luger. buying suggestions

[rocinante]

Not sure if I will get any bites but real lugers are out of my budget but I have always wanted to hold one. Honestly I have a fair number of firearms now and I get almost as much enjoyment owning, handling, and looking at them as firing them. I would be content with a replica luger but they seem to range from about 70 to 150 and above in price. The cheaper ones are made by Denix (sic?). I am asking for recommendations on where to get a good quality replica at a good price. Wood grips would be nice.

 

[elrod]

rocinante replica lugers

Don't know about replicas, I have run across several "real" lugers that had been plated, and thus were selling for $400 or so. Would something like this fit your budget?

 

[22luvr]

Recommend a Stoeger Luger replica

The .22 LR Stoeger Luger replica was my very first handgun. It was deadly accurate and never jammed or otherwise misfired. One of the most ergonomically perfect pistols I have yet fired. Wish I still had it! Mine came with wood grips.

 

[Jim K]

The .22 "Lugers" are not really replicas - they don't function the same way and the Stoeger Luger in particular doesn't even look or feel like the pistol we normally call a Luger. (Stoeger has owned the name "Luger" as a trademark since the 1920's so legally only Stoeger pistols can be called Lugers.)

Stoeger also sold full size Lugers made by (IIRC) Mitchell Arms. They were investment cast and of only so-so quality and many buyers expressed disappointment.

There have been some better replicas. John Martz converted some original Lugers to other calibers (.45 among them). In the 1970's Interarms got the Mauser factory to obtain the Swiss machinery and resume Luger production. The guns were excellent, as would be expected, but the problem was that they had to be sold for more than surplus "real" Lugers were selling for. Interarms took a financial hit and Mauser pulled out of the deal.

And that is the problem today. Making a Luger, even with modern manufacturing methods, would mean a retail price at least as high as a fair-to-good quality original. No one wants a replica when the original can be had for the same price or less.

Jim

 

[Trebor]

No one wants a replica when the original can be had for the same price or less.

I agree if your talking about a "real" firearm.

I think the original poster is looking for a non-gun, non-firing "replica" Luger though. Those should be considerably cheaper then any real gun.

Sorry, but I don't have any suggestions on non-firing replica Lugers. I know some Japanese companies have made such things in the past and they are probably still available. There might be an airsoft version out there as well.

 

[BlindJustice]

The aforementioned Mauser built Luger - I recall getting out of the
USN in late 1978 and returning to Eastern Wash. I was finishing out my
BA at University. I had a Colt Combat Cmmander and bought ammo in the
sportsman shops on DIvision in Spokane. The General Store had a Mauser
built LUger 4" bbl. in a wood presentation case with all the extras fitted spots for magazines, tools etc. At the time the COlt 1911 70 Series was what $ 150? THey wanted $ 450 for the luger and it was
about the highest end gun they carried. Heck S & W 29s went for 2/3rds that price. The luger and SAA Colt I have read are the very best ergos for a naturally poining handgun.

Whats a original Good condition Luger 4" Bbl. go for anyway, today ?

 

[Z71]

I would just shop around for a shooter grade P08 Luger in the lower prce ranges. I bougt a couple "shooters" when they were being imported a few years back. A rough but servicable 1920 DWM cost me $325, while a much nicer, but mismatched Mauser Luger cost me $350.

I know they sell for more now, but still see them sell for $450 give or take.

 

[SigfanUSAF]

Don't know about replicas, I have run across several "real" lugers that had been plated, and thus were selling for $400 or so. Would something like this fit your budget?

I know they sell for more now, but still see them sell for $450 give or take.

Any leads on Lugers at these prices would be greatly appreciated.

 

[jwxspoon]

My Dad inherited a 1914 Erfurt Luger that my grandfather picked up off of the battlefield and brought home at the end of WW1. I fired it many times when I was a kid; I was talking with my Dad a few weeks ago and he indicated he still has it. I told him how much it was now worth and admonished him - "Don't you dare sell that thing!"

jw

 

[rocinante]

thanks for the feedback but I am asking about NON FIRING replicas. I have a Walther P1 which is a P38 and a Bersa 380 which is PPK ish and wanted the grand daddy of the Germany semi autos. I would like a broomhandle mauser for the same satisfaction. I guess from one perspective a non firing gun is silly but of the guns I have some don't get fired much at all but I still enjoy them.