Paul Harrell and Mark Novak 👌

Very entertaining thats for sure 👍

Wow!

Yeah, me too. I often find myself watching through my fingers - terrified of what Mark is doing.

All the non-bubba'd Lugers I've handled had crisp good triggers.

So I am not the only one to think of that joke when he said French whorehouse.

I followed a major in the barber chair at Ft. Polk before vietnam. The major didn't have enough hair to pinch, but the barber worked him for 20 minutes. Major finally finished I got in the chair, took the barber about 90 seconds to do a Spec 4.

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Oh, that's PRICELESS. Thanks.

You can, he has a Patreon that you can use to pay him money directly.

Don't forget to heat treat the pin once its working. Firing fin tends to do strange stuff when they aren't (ok this is more of an issue for rifles, but still, you dont want an stuck firing pin on even a blowback 6,35mm/acp

Make sure your hammers are mirror polished, or ol' Saint Novak will be stuffing coal into your possibles bag come Christmas. :)

Burn zie hexe

very few "gunsmiths"out there with the skills that this man posesses...mark is one i would trust with anything ....i would give my eye teeth to be able to study under him...he still practices a dying art and is a real jewel to the trade.those people are few and far between anymore...when you find one best to listen and learn while you can

Was your uncle Russian? The final US / British lines were a long way from Berlin at the end of the war so it is highly unlikely that the old family story is true. I have seen many Lugers that have similar tall tales attached to them, some even more far fetched. The fact is that most take home pistols were obtained from depots of surrendered arms, especially by officers who were allowed to obtain "war trophies" in a non-lethal setting. Sorry for the reality check but Luger collectors have heard that exact same story thousands of times and it just does not add up. You might want to research where your uncle actually served during the war and see if there is a more likely story. Even so, keep it in the family because once gone you will never get it back.

@@TheLawDawg He was a liason officer for the US Army and an interpreter.

@@TBullCajunbreadmaker Makes sense that he could have picked one up that had been stored after surrender but by the time he would ever have been to Berlin the fighting would have been long over and the bodies and weapons gone. However, I am firmly of the belief that it is an uncle's sworn duty to tell tall tales to his nieces and nephews to cement his place as "being way cooler than Dad" :) Just for curiosity, if you happen to know, there should be a date above the chamber and some sort of marking on the toggle. Do you know what they are? that can tell you a lot about the gun's history. Some Lugers were first made before WW1, hidden after the war, refitted by the Nazis in the early thirties and used right to the end of the war. I have one that was made prior to 1910 and after WW2 was restamped by the Russians for use in East Germany after the Cold War ended a lot of these made their way over here. Since nobody ever wanted to toss out a Luger some of them have very long histories. The story of your family's trophy might be far more fantastic than you suspect, just for different reasons.

@@TheLawDawg I don't really know who has the gun. My Uncles and my father have all passed on. I think one of my male cousins has the gun now in Oklahoma. IIf I remember there was a manufacture date of 1932 or somewhere in there. I am pretty sure my Uncle was in Berlin though even though I do not know when. He was with a general as part of the staff officers is all I remember. I was just remembering a little of my old age anyway, it's not such a big deal to me. I have a Japanese Katana also from one of my other Uncles though, I did get that because he had no kids and I was his favorite nephew. That an a 7.7 mm Arisaka.

It is funny you say that, since the Luger was just somebody slightly changing the Borchardt C93. Everything is an incremental improvement over what the last guy did.

@@VexChoccyMilk eh, calling it a slight change is a bit of an understatement...More like taking the working principle and completely reorganising and massively improving it.

Yes, the Parabellum can be used as a 1-shot emergency pen.

If your grandad knew better gun safety you would have a Luger now.

Mr Mark will u do a sr25 soon sir