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4/21/2017 2:46:56 PM
 
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Section 8: Handguns Subject: Mauser C96 Msg# 979442
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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. |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: To me, the C96 looks ungainly. I have held them. They are not comfortable for ME. I MUCH prefer the 1911, as much as I make fun of the fanboys of them. It IS ergonomic. I can see why the C96 eventually fell out of favor with pretty much everyone except the Chinese. 
Still, I have never fired one, so I can't really say how much they'd recoil. |
