One of the prerogatives of being a freelance gun’riter is I’m not tied into one area of interest. With some gun magazines whose writers are contracted, their editors actually resist letting them step away from a pre-set “persona.” GUNS Magazine just lets me follow my nose or perhaps better expressed, my curiosity, wherever it leads me.

This month it’s Lugers. Why Lugers? Well it went like this. A couple of years back the Montana winter seemed ceaseless. In March the wind was still blowing the snow sideways so shooting was out of the question. For entertainment I started browsing a couple of the Internet firearms auction sites. Somehow I ended up in a section on Lugers and one chambered for the .30 Luger caught my eye. It looked clean in the photos and wasn’t priced outlandishly as a “buy it now” item so I did.