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 03-04-2010, 12:37 PM | #1 | Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: St. Louis, Missouri Posts: 1,126 |  .45 ACP Luger
OK collectors.... now's your chance! 
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What is this 100m you speak of?! Here in AMERICA we shoot in YARDS boy, a meter is something I use to measure voltage with.
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Wer anderen etwas vorgedacht, wird jahrelang nur ausgelacht.
Begreift man die Entdeckung endlich, so nennt sie jeder selbstverständlich.
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| 03-04-2010, 06:10 PM | #2 | Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Monte Vista, CO Posts: 1,231 |
 Wow, I would almost just like to go to see who would be there! | |
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| 03-04-2010, 07:45 PM | #3 | Result of sheltered life! Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Lebanon, Ky Posts: 3,622 |
One million dollars would buy me 1 hell of a farm! __________________
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| 03-04-2010, 07:55 PM | #4 | Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: St. Louis, Missouri Posts: 1,126 |
Bear,
You forgot the "ire"...... (f irearm) __________________
What is this 100m you speak of?! Here in AMERICA we shoot in YARDS boy, a meter is something I use to measure voltage with.
-- Dillinger
Wer anderen etwas vorgedacht, wird jahrelang nur ausgelacht.
Begreift man die Entdeckung endlich, so nennt sie jeder selbstverständlich.
-- Wilhelm Busch
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| 03-04-2010, 08:15 PM | #5 | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 327 |
Just watched a special on this on Guns of the World. I believe there were only 2 ever made. They were specifically made for the army to test along with the 1911 for the armies new side arm. Can't remember the name of the gunsmith that is actually remaking these for sale to the public. I wanna think he is going to sell them for about 8K each. Would be cool to have one. __________________
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| 03-05-2010, 12:59 AM | #6 | Thank Ya, Very Much! Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Somewhere being Awesome Posts: 8,404 |
Got my flight to Cali booked. Now I need someones couch to sleep on, as I will have no money left for the Hotel room. | |
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| 03-05-2010, 01:04 AM | #7 | Supporting Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Bandera, Texas Posts: 10,294 |
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Originally Posted by Shihan
Got my flight to Cali booked. Now I need someones couch to sleep on, as I will have no money left for the Hotel room. |
A hostel would probably suit you well, dude.  | |
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| 03-14-2010, 10:03 PM | #8 | Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Winchester Posts: 246 |
I was privileged (being friends of a General's son helped) to visit the USMA museum back in the early 70s and hold and fire a shot through the one they had there back then.
A gunsmith named Martz was also chopping up 3 Lugers at a time to make one .45 Luger that same decade. .45 P-38s too. His (immaculate creations) went a little cheaper than this one is being priced. I seem to recall an outfit in Miami (Gangster guns .com?) also making one up for sale fairly recently
I thought there were 10 of the US .45 Lugers, not just 2? Germany declined to continue the testing as 1) they probably knew the War was coming and 2) they didn't want to do the expensive retooling producing the next 200 would require with no assurance of winning the contract.
The Savage pistol almost won the 1911 competition. What killed them was the shipment of 2,000 for the next phase of testing. The guns were (allegedly) loaded onto a box car for railroad shipment to the Army, but the car never made it. Colt then won by default as Savage failed to supply the required number of guns for the field tests. A little skullduggery perhaps? An extension of time to meet the deadline was not granted. The shipment was never located, but every now and then an old Savage .45 pops up somewhere (several in the Southwestern US in the past 40 years) which is strange because Savage never sold one to the public.
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| 03-15-2010, 11:29 PM | #9 | Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: , NC Posts: 792 |
will that thing really bring a million?....
it would be a nice collectors piece...but damn i couldnt aford the insurance fees  | |
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| 03-15-2010, 11:34 PM | #10 | Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Monte Vista, CO Posts: 1,231 |
I hear that. The rate to insure that firearm would be $16,910/year.
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