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While I'm On A German Pistol Kick.....(9mm Mauser Goodness Inside)

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October 12, 2021, 12:28 PM
jhe888
While I'm On A German Pistol Kick.....(9mm Mauser Goodness Inside)
Very cool, and I've always wanted to shoot one.




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October 13, 2021, 12:14 PM
Rev. A. J. Forsyth
Lt. Mick Malone approves!

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October 16, 2021, 04:57 PM
pillboxesghost
A very interesting C-96. AIR, Mauser delivered about 137,00 9x19 pistols of the 150,000 on the Prussian military C-96 contract.

If yours is an "over run" or assembled from parts made for that contract; I would assume the S/N to be in the 137,009 to 150,000 range with the 'NS' safety and the 50-500 meter rear sight.

The "1920 property mark" became effective in Aug./Sept. 1920. So your pistol (w/o military acceptance marks) must have been in government possession well before 1921.

I am aware of the prewar 9x25mm commercial C-96's as well as the 9x19mm short barrel w/fixed rear sight reworks of (full size) 7.63mm pistols after WW1. One of Jan Still's books has a photo of two post WW1 German rural policemen armed with full sized C-96's.

I have two "Red Nines". an Italian Navy flatside (in pretty poor condition), a number of other Pre/Post war commercial broomhandles and a 7.63mm '1920' C-96 having military acceptance marks.

Always been "suspicious" of any 1920 marked item. It's so easy for an unscrupulous seller to add them (anywhere along the way) for the last 50 years or so.

Anyway -- congratulations; that's a really unique find! Never seen this variation described before.


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October 16, 2021, 06:16 PM
Mars_Attacks
It's a full sized 1913 9mm police with the fixed rear sight.


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November 20, 2021, 05:30 PM
Mars_Attacks
I got to shoot it today.





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November 24, 2021, 01:35 PM
dewhorse
Awesome pistol....I would love to find one some day
November 28, 2021, 03:39 PM
Underdog
Your smile in the video says it all.

Nice pistol and glad you like it so much.

After the red dot and front slide serrations are you going to put a can on it???
November 28, 2021, 09:47 PM
ersatzknarf
A very long time favourite!

So glad you were able to find one and agree, your smile tells the whole story Big Grin




December 06, 2021, 08:25 AM
Mars_Attacks
I put 200 more through it this weekend.

Out of everything I own, this is by far my favorite. While cleaning it, I discovered why the barrel wasn't shortened. It was counterbored by one inch. I guess the rules for police guns were different from the military.

I loaded 115gr fmj with 4.1gr 231. Cycles it just fine.

The rounds in the video were 158gr lead with alox lube, which causes the smoke.


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December 06, 2021, 02:33 PM
h2oys
Congrats Mars.

Very cool "broom handle"!