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Rose-Eclipse [2013-06-15 03:55:33 +0000 UTC]
Pretty Sweet and Most likely a pretty Cool story of Grand-pa even if he won't tell it.
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Rose-Eclipse In reply to Northern-Dash [2013-06-28 14:03:06 +0000 UTC]
(late reply be very late)
True but aren't all great story a little disturbing.
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Cplvan7 [2013-06-14 20:48:49 +0000 UTC]
Interesting. You know I once knew of a man that killed a German soldier that was on horseback. Upon searching the man's body he found the guy's pistol, a beautiful, well-kept Luger P08, I think you know the one. He was always saying that he would really like to find one and take it home with him. And ever since he found it he was showing it off and stuff, and he accidentally shot a tree, because of how touchy the pistol was, and he decided to put it away. After a while his commanding officer heard another shot & he went to gripe him out. When he got to him he seen that the man shot himself with that touchy gun. they could not stop the bleeding because of where it hit him and he eventually died.
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Northern-Dash In reply to Cplvan7 [2013-06-14 21:36:16 +0000 UTC]
I've held one of the PO.8's before. it looked amazing. was a bit pricey tho. but what can you expect from a pistol that only German officers carried and allied soldiers were executed if they were caught with one.
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Cplvan7 In reply to Northern-Dash [2013-06-14 23:19:49 +0000 UTC]
What would you say a PO8 goes for nowadays? (Good condition: Fires effectively, not scratched up, well oiled, etc.)
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Northern-Dash In reply to Cplvan7 [2013-06-14 23:25:52 +0000 UTC]
i'd say (this is coming from right off the top of my head) 3 to 5 thousand dollars. also what bullet does it fire? a 9mm or a 7mm?
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Cplvan7 In reply to Northern-Dash [2013-06-15 00:54:04 +0000 UTC]
Cool. I thought it could it fire both.
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Northern-Dash In reply to Cplvan7 [2013-06-15 17:37:14 +0000 UTC]
it can, but if it's chambered for the 7mm Mauser, it's older and more valuable.
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