OT- Deputy Sheriff old photo, unusual.

[rangerider7]

Check out the sidearm. It's a Luger.

[Hobie]

That's neat!

Didn't Keith mention a mail carrier who had a Luger artillery model with butt-stock?

[.45colt]

Wow, Great picture. Does He ever look like "Doc" from Tombstone. I could hear Him say "why Jonny Ringo You look like someone just walked over Your Grave". Thank You.

[gamekeeper]

There's always someone who must have the latest new fangled devices!

[Borregos]

Neat

[deerwhacker444]

Check out that ring..! Don't see rings on those dudes very often.

[bsaride]

Check out that ring..! Don't see rings on those dudes very often.

City-fied

[Booger Bill]

This is a 1906 german commercial lugar in 7.65 with a ideal shoulder stock I used to own. Would you belive it came from the same area! I bought it 40 years ago from a lockheed engineer that was a early well known pioneer in radar. Col. gary kubasheck. I belive he lived in pasadena! I sold it long ago.

[Gun Smith]

The shape or angle of the Luger grip is regarded as creating one of the best natural pointing handguns ever made.

[BigSky56]

Interesting photo kinda unusual that lugers would be popular before WW1. danny

[Buck Elliott]

That belt & holster rig may be all right for carrying..., but i'd hate to have to get in a hurry with it!

[Booger Bill]

You ever look close at one of the luger holsters? Its a two handed operation just to open the lid! They really are a box with a cover and strap. Inside they even have another string to pull to lift the gun! Really you almost think they are a exicution tool for etreminating polish!

[DixieBoy]

I'm wondering if that's not one of the weapons which showed up down around the border when the Germans were in Mexico looking to stir up trouble during that decade. - DixieBoy

[Blaine]

The knuckles on that right hand have been busted more than once, or he's got RA bad.

My Uncle Mac had a Luger he got off a German for a carton of Lucky Strikes during the occupation....it was stolen in the seventies when his house was broke into.....

[Griff]

Har! Lugers, solitaire diamond rings... Oh wait! "Pasadena, California, 1910." Land of fruits, nuts & flakes, even back then! Maybe a little ahead of his time!!

[ByronG]

In 1900 some .30 (7.65mm) Luger pistols were submitted to the U.S. military for trial. Initial trials resulted in an order of 1,000 pistols being placed and these continued to be tested until 1908. Around the same time a number of similar pistol were made for commercial sales in the U.S.

[Ysabel Kid]

It is at that!!!

[kimwcook]

Reminds me of Patrick Wayne in "Big Jake". As finicky as Lugers can be I'm surprised he's packing it as a duty piece.

[pokey]

another nice one.

[FWiedner]

Har! Lugers, solitaire diamond rings... Oh wait! "Pasadena, California, 1910." Land of fruits, nuts & flakes, even back then! Maybe a little ahead of his time!!

He does seem to have nice skin.

[Gary]

Cool picture!

[Old Time Hunter]

Har! Lugers, solitaire diamond rings... Oh wait! "Pasadena, California, 1910." Land of fruits, nuts & flakes, even back then! Maybe a little ahead of his time!!

My first thoughts also! Very effeminate ain't he?

[TomF]

Didn't Keith mention a mail carrier who had a Luger artillery model with butt-stock?

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Skeeter Skelton spoke of a mail carrier that took a goose or two from time to time with an artillery model.

TomF

[JerryB]

Are ya'll trying to say this lawman might be a little light in his loafers?

[FWiedner]

Are ya'll trying to say this lawman might be a little light in his loafers?

Naw, he's a "man among men".