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Section 8: Handguns Subject: Mauser C96 Msg# 979453
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Yeah, I should view it in terms of evolution or something along those lines. Yes, it was innovative. Shoot, I have seen Old West Pictures with Cowboys carrying this Single Action Piece. No, SASS won't allow it even though they allow the 1897 Winchester Pump gun. 
What was even more amazing about the C96 was that it only uses one screw to keep the grips on. The rest I believe, is friction fit. For it's time. Hell, any time, it's a classic design and one that uses a cute widdle zippy buwwet. |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: You can make those legitimate comments legitimately about the C96, but the fact remains that it was the SECOND successful semi-automatic pistol in history--arguably the FIRST, if one wishes to consider Hugo Borchardt's C93 as simply a lead-in to the later Model 1900 Luger. Either way, at the time there were no predecessors telling designers a slide should reciprocate, or that ammo should be loaded into a box that fit in the butt. Borchardt used a reciprocating bolt inside the action like the first semi-auto rifles, not a moving slide, though he did use a box mag. Mauser used a fixed mag under the bolt--not in the handgrip, and again, a reciprocating bolt within the action. These men were charting new territory. Was the C93 ugly? Was the C96? Arguably yes, and most 21st Century handgunners would probably say laughably so. But that is to consider them within the narrow constructs of 21st Century design, which is to give them extremely short shrift. On the other hand, the M1911 has survived for 120 years largely intact because it works. If I'm a "fanboy," I can only say I was a "fanboy" when you were still a boy. Consistency. |
