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The Luger is a natural pointer. Fully extend your arm, lock your eyes on the target, nestle your chin on your shoulder, and squeeze. Chances are you’ll hit what you’re aiming at.

Holsters for the Luger, left to right: Strong Leather pancake with thumb-break snap, post-war East German military, and fast-draw pancake without safety strap from El Paso Saddlery.

The Luger is a gun well worthy of such attention to detail. It is the easiest pistol of all to hit with; nothing points faster or more accurately. It is the most accurate service pistol ever issued. Most Lugers will shoot 10mm groups or less at 25 meters, and the only repeating pistols that I know of that have shot a 1-inch minute of angle group at 100 yards are the Luger and the 8-3/4-inch-barreled S&W .44 Magnum, although the latter hardly qualifies as a service pistol because of its huge size, recoil, and inability to fire rapid fire. Despite the many slanders leaped on it by gun writers over the years, when given the correct ammo and a magazine with a powerful spring, the Luger is also one of the most reliable pistols in the world – the number one spot being held, of course, by the M1911-A1 .45 automatic.