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Talk:Luger P08
Other Luger Variants
Do you want to take down the picture of the black luger since we know have MPM2008's images on the page?--Alienqueen11 02:32, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
- Sure. That should be policy. -MT2008 04:05, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
I can think of another movie with the Luger, that is The Land That Time Forgot. Also the Bergman MP-18 is in that movie (anachronistic because the movie is set in 1916 while the U.S. is still "neutral") as well as Mauser 98 rifles and a Webley revolver.
Has a Luger Carbine ever been used in a movie? David.
.45 Luger Pistol
I have found a picture of the famous Luger Pistol chambered in .45 ACP from 1908. It is the only known .45 Luger to still exist today. The other pistol, Serial No. 1, was used in the 1908 pistol test in which it was tested along-side the Colt M1905 Pistol. The original was thrown away after the tests and the other remaning Lugers were either lost or destroyed. This .45 Luger Pistol remains the last of its kind to this day. - Kilgore
- Actually, I remember hearing about a gunsmith who was handcrafting a limited number (around one hundred) of .45 Lugers according to original specifications. However, the high price tags ($10,000-$100,000) meant that the Lugers were more pieces of jewelry than weapons. -Anonymous
- That may be very expensive just for a reproduction, but compare that to the original .45 Luger, which was recently valued at more than $1 Million. - Kilgore
They also made a .45 ACP carbine, link: http://www.weaponscache.com/forum/pistols/2171-worlds-most-expensive-handgun-45-acp-luger-carbine.html
David.
- Actually, the famous "million dollar Luger" sold for that in 1989, in a private sale to an Indonesian businessman (who, incidentally, was not a gun collector and probably overpaid). It went up in auction back in March of this year and sold for $494,500. Combination of the economic climate in the 80s (remember "Greed is good"?) compared to today's recession, and the fact that the provenance of that particular gun is actually somewhat shaky. It's definately a real 1907 .45 Luger but there's real doubt as to whether it's actually one of the US army test guns. DWM made a few .45 prototypes for the commercial market as well before deciding there wasn't a market for it. The idea that there's only one survivor isn't accurate, serial # 2,4,7 are known, as well as the carbine, the authenticity of which is questionned. - Nyles
Gold-plated Lugers in movies
I seem to remember a scene from an old science-fiction/monster movie, maybe from the fifties or sixties, name unknown, in which a gold-plated Luger with the snail-drum mounted (also gold-plated) figured prominently towards the end. I had thought it was "The Day The World Ended" - I'm pretty sure it was that sort of "post-apocalyptic" plot-line, with mutated humans, etc. - but that was in b&w, while the flick I'm thinking of had to be in color, or the "golden" Luger would never have been noticable.
Unfortunately, I saw it so long ago (early seventies) that I can't recall anything else about it and have never seen it since.
Does anyone recognise that extremely-vague description?
In the 60s, "The Day the World Ended" was remade for television as "In the Year 2889" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060536/ . I haven't seen it since the 60s, but I do remember the hero using a Luger with a drum magazine at the end. Don't remember if it was gold, or not, we had a b&w tv set at the time. David.