Reply With QuoteI use to have a broomhandle, 1912 with a stock. Great pistol.Originally Posted by nougabol
100 year old (almost) German tac sling...
Sweetlooking thing...anybody shot on of these ?
I use to have a broomhandle, 1912 with a stock. Great pistol.
Does it have the same caliber round then PPK pistol ?
Fired a Red 9 and a 7.63 one but not with the stock on. Wish to hell I owned one.
Nice find. No one on the corner got swagger like him.
Ha, just like modern single points, let it hang and it always lands in the same place...
Tactical operator, old school.
PPKs were 6.35mm (.25), 7.65mm (.32) and 9x17mm (.380), among others. The Mauser 96 was originally chambered in a 7.63mm bottleneck cartridge, and later in 9x18mm.
9x19, 9x18 is Russian cartridge used in Makarovs etc.
You are correct, my mistake.
Short video about the C96 with buttstock. Really nice pistol, but looks a bit difficult to reload, though. Is it just the guy in the video or is the use of stripper clips really a bit tough?
I've run a couple of stripper clips through one with the stock on, but not with the stock plus sling. It was cool. The manual of arms with loading the stripper clips just isn't as smooth as popping a new mag into a modern pistol design.
You really have to put everything in the right context. Mauser C96 dates back 120 years or so (pre-dating the 1911 morethan a decade), of course it is not have the finesse of a modern service pistol. This gun was the first real alternative to service revolvers, and I guess it could be said that it was the proof of concept and first magzine pistol capable of frontline use. I believe even Winston Churchill himself used one in his early career when he was fighting in Africa.
The round was called .30 Mauser in the states. IIRC, it is basically a low power 7.62x25 round. I was told that the new Tokarev round would disassemble the broomhandle.
The stock also was the holster. The butt was hinged and when opened allowed the pistol to go inside.
Very hipster. Tactical before it was cool.
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