Thread: Pipe of the Day

Pipe: 8733 Kaywoodie
Tobacco: Prince Albert (the National Joy Smoke)

Originally Posted by Gunner777

Sailor those P08's are about $4000 for a nice one!!!!!! Uh if you can find one.

Guess i have to forget it for good then. If i had that amount of loose money, i had something better to do with it.
However, living in a country that is far from everywhere, it is still possible to make great bargains every now and then. Not only for guns, but razors, furniture antiques (a passion of my wife) and whatever. Just have to keep my eyes open. People sell old vintage things in estate sales and national internet auctions. Things that cost fortunes in eBay but go almost for nothing in these places. Have to admit that Luger might be not one of these cheap things.
I've seen wartime submachine guns
go with say 50 or 60 euros few years ago. I paid € 50 of my Spitz Dog although i bought it from the Army and not from free market. We'll wait and see..

Originally Posted by ThePhill

Back at last with something special this time guys. My wife went behind my back and had this built by Tim at TRG Pipes in honor of our son with some help form my brother on the shape. A little lovat pipe with my son's initials carved on the shank. Compact lightweight little pipe, should make a great flake pipe. Man I love my wife .


And the baby boy himself.

So big congrats Phil. You have a nice little boy that will be a handsome man some day. Now it is a time for hard and wonderful time on your life to see that little man grow up little by little.
Having 2 kids of my own i would like to say that spend all the time you can with your son and remember every moment you spent with him, every moment of learning and every moment of happiness and sorrow. Sooner than you think he will be a big man.
As my kids were little i spent too much time at work, on a different countries doing things i didn't like for reasons i learned to think were wrong.
My daughter just moved to live on her own and i think it was yesterday when she was just a little girl when i taught her to drive with a bicycle. Time flies away like wild horses over the mountains, like Bukowski said.

Nice pipe too; wifes like that are hard to find

Unknown Italian sitter + Irish whiskey & a Bower's "Sure Fire" to light it with. Have a great weekend.
& congrats to Phill

Tomi, what is the problem to find Luger in Finland?
As I remember Parabellum M23 was in service in Finnish army.
May be, you can ask some villages near the Russian-Finnish border.
Old villagers preserve many old weapons and histories.

P.S. 80% of my weapon collection was from Belarusian villages and forests.

Alex is right Sailor. When the Nazi's took over FN they made mostly the High Power but there were a good number of Lugers in that area and of course Germany. I would think it much easier to find them in Europe than the crazy prices here in the US.

But to find really old Colt 1911 in Europe is more difficult.

And much easier here. The older ones are expensive though. I have a friend with a 1928 1911 that was valued at $4800. It was pristine though. We shot the darn thing before he found out how much it was worth:-)
I'm big on FN Hi Powers but they are hard to come by at least the ones from the 1960's or so.

Originally Posted by manah

Tomi, what is the problem to find Luger in Finland?
As I remember Parabellum M23 was in service in Finnish army.
May be, you can ask some villages near the Russian-Finnish border.
Old villagers preserve many old weapons and histories.

P.S. 80% of my weapon collection was from Belarusian villages and forests.

Now this is a difficult question. Because of the asekätkentä case we still have estimated tens of thousands of military weapons hidden around the country. Within our culture, right to own and carry a gun has always been a right for military and police only, and for those who hunt of course. Now selling unregistered weapon is a serious crime, so those who find or own any war time weapons do not keep much noise. Mostly people destroy the guns they find because selling them would make them criminals. Getting a license for such gun would be difficult also. I have a license for my Glock because i serve in the military, but even my good friend who serves at the police special assault team didn't get a license for a personal gun. "You have been issued with a gun to use in service, you don't need a gun when being off duty" said the officials. So actually my only choice to find such gun would be finding such relative or person who has such thing and would legally sell it to me. My late great uncle served in Viking SS, i could always visit to see her widow to ask if there's any ,but he was so charming and hearth warming person, anti-war gentleman that talking about weapons or war to her wife is something i wouldn't want to do.

Yes, you're right, the law is important thing.
But may be, you can be a weapon collector with a license.
20 years ago I lived in Belarus, and I had a small hunting shop and workshop. May be, you know it was impossible to have nonhunting weapon in Soviet Union. So, I made a collector license and told everyone that I've found any weapon in the forest and restored it.