I know that the 06/29 does not feature strawing and rust blueing, but in terms of mechanics, craftsmans and the like, how would you guys rate this pistol?

I agree with John Walter's statement of the expert consensus: "The Swiss 06/29 W+F is widely regarded as the most perfect form of the Luger."

 

It is the best shooting luger I have.

FN

 

Fluffy,

What color variety did you get...red, brown, or black ?

The serial number range and the color of the plastic on a M1929 should be in the proper range.

 

The 1906/29 Swiss luger was an improvement mainly dictated by economics at the sacrifice of the "eye candy" appeal.

 

Not so. Its toggle train was strengthened, its trigger action was tuned, and its grip safety was scaled up. It is the only Luger model to achieve combat reliability, and the only Luger model to win an international shooting competition. In fairness, the Germans were too caught up in shooting prisoners in the backs of their heads to bother attending to the more generic aspects of their sidearms.

 

The serial number is in the 70,000 range. Here is an actual picture:

 

Leon,

Nice purchase...congratulations !

When you get it home, look inside the front frame well and you will see some numbers stamped such as 6.42. It that example, it would tell you your gun was made in June 1942.

The M1929 Swiss Luger holsters are dated along their backs, so you could look to add a holster as well...with your holster and Luger made in the same year.

The M1929 holster style looks like this one offered on eGun in Germany :

http://egun.de/market/item.php?id=3446647

These holster show up at USA gun shows and even on eBay from time to time. The holster should have a shoulder strap.

 

Swiss Lugers Model 06/29 in 7.65 mm and 9, are indeed very accurate, very well built, but I find them dark and nasty!
Joel

 

Guns are meant to be nasty. If you need nice, stick to flowers.

 

I like the business-like appearance of the Swiss 06/29. The earlier pretty Lugers are sometimes too nice to shoot.

As an aside, I would liken this situation to that of the Smith and Wesson Models 27 and 28. The early Model 27s had a beautiful high polish carbona blue. But the Model 28 was the same gun with a low lustre finish.

I wish I had a Model 28 because I live in fear of scratching my Model 27.


Fluffy

 

Hi Michael, I believe Joël was using the word "nasty" in the sense of "cheap and nasty", not "mean and nasty". Best regards, Norm

 

Michael,
Je sais que vous comprenez le français, j'ai voulu dire que les 06/29 sont mécaniquement parfaits mais qu'ils ne sont pas beaux!
Je les aime bien quand même, j'en ai trois dont un en 9 mm.
Joël

 

Luger -------Model W+F 06/29

Congrats. My '29 was made '5'40- the month and year the Germans invaded France. I've used it many times in our own Swiss Pistol Matches sponsored by various Swiss shooting organizations. It's a pleasure to shoot and zeroed just like Bobba said in his book. Question for you: your own '29 appears to have an after issue front sight; it's thicker and more squared off than mine. Does your rear sight have a "v" shaped notch or a "u" shaped notch?

 

Flyffy,

If you are looking to get a proper, Swiss front sight blade for your M1929, you might drop an email to Stefan Mahrer who lives in Switzerland...I am sure he can hook you up :

http://swissdagger.com/parts1.html

 

Why would anyone change the front sight?

 

It is really only your business if you want a proper sight blade or not...but here is a photo from Stefan's web site that shows what the M1929 Luger left the factory with :

http://swissdagger.com/PA241207.JPG

I think your sight blade was a commercial offering from the Pacific Arms Co. years back. One of my shooter Lugers has the identical blade.

 

I want the proper blade; however, I wonder why anyone would have taken the original blade off the gun in the first place?

Is there any advantage, real or imagined to the replacement sight blade?

 

06/29 front sights.........

Maybe the original front sight was damaged, even only slightly. That alone would throw off the factory setting. Maybe he simply wanted a better sight picture for target shooting. The present sight with a "U" shaped rear sight would lend itself to a better sight picture, translating to better scores. Show us a pix of the rear sight if you would........

 

The Swiss are known for milling the original 'v' shape to a 'u' shape. It is not uncommon to find modified rear sights on Swiss Lugers.

 

Mike,

I am not sure those U-shaped rear sight notches were a milling process...but rather a more simple task with a round hand file...but that only happened on M1900's, M1906, and M1906 W+F.

The M1929's originally came from the Bern factory with the U-shape...so on those the U-shape was shop-machined.

 

Let me see only one Luger M1929 with a "V" shape rear sight....only one.

I use the M1929 Luger for Target Shooting here in Switzerland and I change the front sight blade regularly. For the both distances 25m and 50m and the different Targets I need different front sights,as here is no adjustable rear sight.
Last Sunday we visited 2 local shooting contests and I won 3 of 4 medals.
I had more points as many of the .22lr shooters with their Hitech Pardinis.

 

Yippee! It arrived today. It has the u sight and after I disassembled it, I could not find a date. She is very beautiful.....

 

Mike,

Sometimes you have to rotate the take-down lever to see down into the front frame well and you might be able to see the production date stampings.

 

I took another close look and it is dated "44" just near the takedown lever on the frame. It has only the two numbers, "44" and nothing else.

Fluffy

 

This might be something you would be interested in, only after you verify it's real and not a fake.

Harry
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Swiss-Luger-...b#ht_500wt_971

 

Hi Fluffy,

Thanks for letting us know about the "44" date stamping.

From V. Bobba's book on Swiss Lugers, 5,800 Lugers were made in that year at Bern...serial numbers running from 70291 - 76000.

Does your SN agree with this range for the year 1944 ?

 

The serial number is 704XX. It was probably made in January 1944. I am sure that it is a real Swiss 06/29.