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Luger PO8 Question

pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
edited December 2015 in Ask the Experts
Where can I go to read up on Lugers?

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  • rufe-snowrufe-snow Member Posts: 18,650 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    GOOGLE "Luger Forum". You will have to register



    EDIT #1,

    With the advent of the internet in the late 90's. I quit buying reference books, on specific guns like Lugers. There is so much free reference information on the net. The need to maintain a extensive gun library, isn't necessary any more, IMHO.

    To put this in perspective. At times in the past, I had so many gun books. I had run out of space to store them. Sold 2 different collections, of hundreds of books. To book dealers, who bought them for resale.

    Re the OP's request. Specialist books on Lugers aren't cheap. Specially the out of print ones. I would try to do as much research on the net, as you can. Only buy books on specific Lugers. If you can't obtain information any other way.
  • p3skykingp3skyking Member Posts: 23,916 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    There's a pretty good book called
    The Luger Story: The Standard History of the World's Most Famous Handgun Hardcover- November, 1995
    by John Walter

    I've got all the Luger books and this is the best general history and information book out there.
  • perry shooterperry shooter Member Posts: 17,105 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Lugers at Random by Charles Kenyon Jr. is one of my go to books on the LUGER [^]
    EDIT a little more advanced study is in the at least 3 volumes " there may now be more than 3
    by " Jan C. Still" years ago a mentor of mine suggested to spend $1.00 on books for every $1.00 you spend on the guns themselves not bad advise
  • p3skykingp3skyking Member Posts: 23,916 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by perry shooter
    Lugers at Random by Charles Kenyon Jr. is one of my go to books on the LUGER [^]


    Kenyons' book is a nice picture book os specific models that collectors have reported. It offers no real background on Georg Luger, engineering specifications, production numbers, or contract durations except pictures of the Portuguese, Swiss, Turkish, ect, variations.
    I keep a signed first edition on my coffee table for casual readers, but it's strictly an amateur hour book now.

    ADDENDUM: I have all of Jan Stills' books too aquiring "Weimar Lugers" in 2007. They are painstakingly written and well illustrated, but are strictly for the advanced collector who is looking to date minute changes in fit and finish. Along with "Imperial Lugers" and "Axis Pistols" they are probably the finest Parabellum books in the English Language.
  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by p3skyking
    quote:Originally posted by perry shooter
    Lugers at Random by Charles Kenyon Jr. is one of my go to books on the LUGER [^]


    Kenyons' book is a nice picture book os specific models that collectors have reported. It offers no real background on Georg Luger, engineering specifications, production numbers, or contract durations except pictures of the Portuguese, Swiss, Turkish, ect, variations.
    I keep a signed first edition on my coffee table for casual readers, but it's strictly an amateur hour book now.

    ADDENDUM: I have all of Jan Stills' books too aquiring "Weimar Lugers" in 2007. They are painstakingly written and well illustrated, but are strictly for the advanced collector who is looking to date minute changes in fit and finish. Along with "Imperial Lugers" and "Axis Pistols" they are probably the finest Parabellum books in the English Language.
    Thanks guy....I'll see you later...[;)]
  • v35v35 Member Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The Luger Pistol by Datig.
    The U.S. Army rejected them as a service pistol in about 1900.
    Why the Germans took so long in replacing them is a good question.
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