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Before anyone jumps on me, yeah, yeah I know it is now 2009 I just scanned this before the new year but didn't get a chance post it until today. While not terribly concealable and sometimes temperamental to ammo choices the luger pistols and in particular the Artillery Model still have this cool sci-fi look to them. In fact in the 24th Century Vipera Vixen has had an original DWM manufactured Artillery modified into a laser pistol for Space Pirates adventures. It even stills toggles the action each time it fires.
Unless you've been living in a Tibetan monastery for the last 50 years with no contact to Popular Culture it is hard to have not seen the Walther PPK. An ever popular choice for TV and movie spies, secret agents, fem fatales, Interpol agents the PPK is the Archetypal semi-auto pocket pistol. Originally put into production in the 1930's the Walther PPK is still made today and its design has spawned rash of copycats and clones. It is still one of the benchmarks that other pocket pistols are measured against.
Unless you've been living in a Tibetan monastery for the last 50 years with no contact to Popular Culture it is hard to have not seen the Walther PPK. An ever popular choice for TV and movie spies, secret agents, fem fatales, Interpol agents the PPK is the Archetypal semi-auto pocket pistol. Originally put into production in the 1930's the Walther PPK is still made today and its design has spawned rash of copycats and clones. It is still one of the benchmarks that other pocket pistols are measured against.
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The Luger combines wonderful, ergonomic grips with one of the worst set of sights ever put on a pistol. The Artillery Luger has an excellent rear sight - for when it's stock is on, but the combination of a huge rear buckhorn and a front inverted V is tough to shoot, especially in the old fashioned single-hand grip. That being said, I've owned four Lugers over the years - a parts-gun Navy model, a mostly-matching 1907, an Erma 'baby luger' in .32, and an Erma full-sized .22. I still have the latter two.
The PPK is a wonderful gun, comfortable to carry and amazingly reliable. In .380, it's an adequate replacement for a snub .38, and in .32 it's an adequate replacement for a pocketknife, as long as you don't try and peel an orange with it. The most common complaint about the PPK is that it's solidly mounted barrel combined with blowback operation encourages the sights to move in relation to the barrel. If you're shooting at a distance where it makes a difference, you're doing it wrong. :)
The PPK is a wonderful gun, comfortable to carry and amazingly reliable. In .380, it's an adequate replacement for a snub .38, and in .32 it's an adequate replacement for a pocketknife, as long as you don't try and peel an orange with it. The most common complaint about the PPK is that it's solidly mounted barrel combined with blowback operation encourages the sights to move in relation to the barrel. If you're shooting at a distance where it makes a difference, you're doing it wrong. :)
Oh, I could do a whole list of runner-up firearms and will probably do sketches of them to like the Chauchat, the Reising submachine gun, the Ross M5 or M10 rifle, the Japanese Type 94 pistol. You could make a whole gallery of dud firearms. By the way which Breda machine gun were you thinking of?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breda_30 <--- that one
feed strips are a fascinating idea to save weight, but other than that it's apparently a bad weapon.
feed strips are a fascinating idea to save weight, but other than that it's apparently a bad weapon.
My father legally own a "Pistole .08" which is it's correct discription made in 1916. Since the Pope justified a new genocide among gay men like the Nazis did, I want to learn shooting with one of those. I'm not sure wether I ever buy one, but they are easy to sell when you don't want it anymore.
I have always loved the Arty Lugers. They are pure elegance.
After having owned/sold/shot/borrowed real and copies of the PP series (PP, PPK und PPKS) I have to say that the copies always functioned better than the originals, which is terrible, because I dearly love Walther Waffenfabrik.
I still love the Mauser HSC over all other pocket pistolen, save for my traesured CZ's.
After having owned/sold/shot/borrowed real and copies of the PP series (PP, PPK und PPKS) I have to say that the copies always functioned better than the originals, which is terrible, because I dearly love Walther Waffenfabrik.
I still love the Mauser HSC over all other pocket pistolen, save for my traesured CZ's.
"Artillery" models always mystified me...
I mean by the time the enemy was close enough to use side arms against, you should have been gone long time ago!
PP = Police Pistol
PPK = Polizeipistole Kriminalmodell (Police Pistol Detective Model)
PPKs = Police Pistol Detective Model Stupid American Modification to comply with 'Saturday Night Special' ban.
I mean by the time the enemy was close enough to use side arms against, you should have been gone long time ago!
PP = Police Pistol
PPK = Polizeipistole Kriminalmodell (Police Pistol Detective Model)
PPKs = Police Pistol Detective Model Stupid American Modification to comply with 'Saturday Night Special' ban.
(Takes one look at the Luger Artillery and falls in love)
I've always thought that the Luger and the American Eagle (Post WWII Lugers made to apeal to the American audience, Lugers in all but name) were graceful guns, and after seeing slo-motion footage with the action of the 'knuckle' revealed for one frame (The blessed thing ejects and chambers the next round in 1/60th of a second, even though the rest of the fire arm and the firer collectively take around 1/3rd of a second to ready for the next shot) I just became obsessed. If this bird ever has to use a firearm for personal defense, it'll be a Luger if at all possible.
Seeing the Luger Artillery appeals both to my obsession with the fine German Engineering as well as by tendencies as a hopeless size-queen.
I've always thought that the Luger and the American Eagle (Post WWII Lugers made to apeal to the American audience, Lugers in all but name) were graceful guns, and after seeing slo-motion footage with the action of the 'knuckle' revealed for one frame (The blessed thing ejects and chambers the next round in 1/60th of a second, even though the rest of the fire arm and the firer collectively take around 1/3rd of a second to ready for the next shot) I just became obsessed. If this bird ever has to use a firearm for personal defense, it'll be a Luger if at all possible.
Seeing the Luger Artillery appeals both to my obsession with the fine German Engineering as well as by tendencies as a hopeless size-queen.
Mmmh... As nice as the Luger looks... Personally, I have a thing for the Broomhandle... As awkward, heavy, and nose-heavy as it is.
Using its own holster as a shoulder stock, though... Plus, it gets around a number of weapon regulations as it has a non-removable magazine. And it's vintage!
Using its own holster as a shoulder stock, though... Plus, it gets around a number of weapon regulations as it has a non-removable magazine. And it's vintage!
Aha! Mystery solved. I saw a Luger in the display case at my range a couple of years ago with no rear sight. Musta been an Artillery model rebarreled with a regular barrel or (more likely) a parts gun assembled with an Artillery knuckle.
Incidentally, Lugers were used as UNCLE Specials (at least in the novelizations), later replaced onscreen with Mausers and the iconic P-38...
Incidentally, Lugers were used as UNCLE Specials (at least in the novelizations), later replaced onscreen with Mausers and the iconic P-38...
I still have to get me a luger one day, though I hear they are a hard gun to keep up and was known for jamming? Haven't fired one so I have no idea. I never did understand the love affiar with the PPK except for James Bond. I love my 2 p38's and both of them were so worth it, but a ppk it just too darn small to fit in my hand. Great info BTW. I didnt know about the artility model of the luger at all, it looks even niftier then the standard one.
The reason the Luger's hard to keep up is also one of the reasons that they can be unreliable: the beautifully machined precision of the working parts. The tolerances in a Luger are usually so close any dirt getting into the works can stop them up. Part of why the AK-47 is so reliable, there's so much 'slop' in the mechanism it practically has to be packed full of mud before it'll jam.
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