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Friend found this in her garage after it had been sitting there for a while. I know the info on it, since she asked me (she needs money and this has just been sitting there). Just thought I'd share this find with you guys because it's a nice piece that could have been used in any number of events due to its age, make, and eventual importer.
Your “broomhandle” Mauser was one of my first jigsaw puzzles. I had an uncle that was a gunsmith. He would bring weapons with him when he visited. He would take them apart and leave them on an old kitchen table and it was up to me to put them back together. I loved the Mauser and the Lugers. There was such a difference between the German engineering and our American Engineering. The German weapons (if I recall correctly) only had the one screw holding on the grip.
Anyway; I love your pictures – it brings back old times. Do you have the detachable stock?
I found this YouTube video of the field stripping and reassembly: C96 disassembly and reassembly - YouTube It has been so long since I was eight years old and my uncle let me reassemble these that I forgot. I remember that I liked the Lugar's better and hated the Brownings. I always wanted to own one; but never did.
back in the mid 1980's they use to have crates of these in gun shops and they were all in fair to poor condition priced at $89.99 each , the store owner said he wouldnt recommend firing them
I noticed the numbers don't match on some of the parts, that limits collector's value.
It could still be a good shooter. I have an American Eagle Luger, I shoot it with a 93 grain cast round nose Lyman bullet, and a moderate load of Unique powder, it will stay on a 12-ounce beer bottle at 40 yards if I do my part.
It would be prudent to have a good gunsmith check it out for headspace, etc. before shooting it.
A lot of the Chinese ones had worn out barrels from being used so much. If the barrel is good any other problem is pretty easy (barrels can be relined but that isn't cheap). Sometimes the bolt stops are cracked or peened out of proper fit, firing pins worn out, and it's usually good to replace all the springs.
I was a fan of the broomhandle mauser for a while, but never wound up buying one. When the 'assault weapon' debate was going in the early 1990's, people would always talk about the 'new breed' of 'high tech' , 'high capacity' guns such as the Glock, Mac 10, Uzi, that were so deadly that they were game changers. "Oh you mean guns like the 1896 Mauser," I would retort, "it's hundred-year old technology."
I've got a book somewhere about them that I bought back then. The original design had a fixed mag, but it wasn't too many years before models were made with detachable mags in 9mm. I'm not a collector at all, but if there is one collectable-type gun I would buy, that would be it.
Friend found this in her garage after it had been sitting there for a while. I know the info on it, since she asked me (she needs money and this has just been sitting there). Just thought I'd share this find with you guys because it's a nice piece that could have been used in any number of events due to its age, make, and eventual importer.
Enjoy.
Nice!
Here is my C96:
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