Broomhandled Mauser.

If I recall, Neilblume had a holster stock for one. It was pretty good.

I've seen quite a few pictures of German troops with "broomhandles", mostly "REMF" types though, rather than frontline troops. But, who cares about that? Just use it! They pack quite a wallop apparently.

Yeah, saw the wooden ones, but don't think they take the long mags.

C-96, with wooden holster/stock >-- attachment is not available --

Neils had leatherwork on the outside, which included a couple of mag pouches.

http://www.cmrfirearms.com/shop/index.p ... 34_136_145

Bit of choice there for you

Moved this to "weapons" discussion area.

Yep, that's the ones I saw Joker, but it only takes short mags, and I have exacty....*counts on fingers*.....none of those.

So I wondered if there was another variation that took the long mag version? I mean, if the gun is a replica of the real thing, you'd think that they MUST have had some sorta holster for the long mag one? Or did they just have to load the bugger each time they drew it out?

Sorry Sgt, didn't think it was one for the weapons discussion, as it was mainly the holster I was on about!

Cheers Joker, but once again, all for short mag versions.

The real broomhandle C96 was loaded from stripper clips if I recall, so, no mags. However,the "Bolo" version was magazine fed.

So the long mags are a fiction?? Bugger!!

No, see my edited post above.

" Type: Single Action
Chamber: 7.63x25mm Mauser (.30 Mauser); also 9x19mm Luger/Parabellum and 9x25mm Mauser (rare)
Weight unloaded: 1250
Length: 312 mm (with 140 mm barrel)
Barrel length: 140 mm (also 99 mm and other lenghts)
Capacity: 10 rounds in non-detachable box magazine (also 6 and 20 rounds)

The development of the C-96 began in 1893 or 1894. Most work had been done by the Federle brothers, who worked for the Mauser company. Final design appeared early in 1895 and had been patented by Paul Mauser. Production began in 1896. The C-96 had been offered for the German Military but failed. However, C-96 has a long and sucessfull story on the civilian market - being offered as a pistol-carbine, it outperformed in effective range most of contemorary pistols and revolvers, being especially popular with travelers and hunters in the areas where big animals are rare or absent at all. C-96 first saw military action during the Boer war in South Africa (1899-1902). During the First World War C-96 had been aquired by the German Army due to the lack of the stantart issue Luger P-08 pistols. It also had been used during the World War Two, by some second line troops of the Reichswehr (German Army). C-96 also had beeen widely exported - in the 1920s Soviet Russia purchased large quantities of the short-barreled (99 mm barrels) C-96s in 7.63mm, givint the name "Bolo-mauser" (from Bolsheviks' Mauser) to all short-barreled C-96s. In 1930s China also purchased lots of the C-96s in 7.63mm, and also manufactured copies of the C-96 but chambered for .45ACP cartridge. Surprisingly, these copies were of quite good quality. Many C-96 clones were manufactured in Spain, mostly withouth any license, and mostly by the Astra. In the early 1930s Mauser engineers developed a select-fire version of the C-96, which had been used in limited numbers during WW2.

Technically, the C-96 is a recoil operated, locked breech, semi-automatic pistol. It uses short recoiling barrel with bolt, located inside the large barrel extension. The bolt and barrel are locked by the vertically tilting locking piece with two lugs, that locked into the recesses on the bottom of the bolt. The gun is hammer fired. Early guns had hammers with large, round shaped hammer headss with coned sides. The safety is located at the left side of the hammer and locks the hammer when engaged. The most recognisable feature of C-96 is a non-removable, fixed box magazine, located ahead of the triggerguard. Early models were made with 20, 10 or 6 round magazines, but soon 20 and 6 round models were dropped, and since 1905 or so only 10 round models werere manufactured. C-96 can be loaded with single rounds or from 10-rounds sripper clips. The only way to unoad the magazine was to work the slide all the way back and forward for each cartridge in the magazine. Two other notable features were the distinguishable shaped handle (which give the name "broomhandle" to all C-96s) and removable wooden shoulder stock/holster. Finally, most of the C-96 were fitted with ajustable rear sights, graduated up to 1000 meters. This, obviusly, was more of marketing feature, since at 1000 meters distance the average bullets spread was about 4 meters, but, due to high velocity ammunition (the 7.63mm Mauser round produced muzzle velocities of about 440 meters per second, or 1450 feets per second), the effective range was about 150 or 200 meters, especially with shoulder stock atached.

The C-96 took its final shape in 1912, when new type of safety (marked NS - "Neue Sicherung") was adopted, along with shorter and wider extractor and smaler and lighter hammer. In 1915, due to World War, German Army purchased from the Mauser some 150.000 C-96s, chamberd for the army standart issue 9x19mm Luger/Parabellum round. These guns were marked with large red "9" digits on the both sides of the grip. In the 1931-32 Mauser engineers developed two latest versions of the C-96 - models 711 and 712. Main difference of these models was the adoption of the removable box magazines for 10 or 20 rounds. The Model 712 also featured a fire selector mechanism with the fire mode switch on the left side of the frame. Due to the high rate of fire in full auto (1000 rounds/minute) and light barrel, the full auto could be used with any practical effect only for short time and only with shoulder stock attached. These guns were used in limited quantities by German Army in Second World War.

In general, the C-96 is one of the most distinguishable semi-auto pistols in the history, also one of the first practical designs in its class. It was too heavy and too bulky, and slow to reload, but offered great effective range and firepower, along with good reliability. In short - it is what we usually call CLASSIC. "

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Full auto??? Bloody hell, never knew that!! So where the 20 round ones the mag fed ones??

Full auto??? Bloody hell, never knew that!! So where the 20 round ones the mag fed ones??

Would seem that way.

For your Mastermind specialist subject research - http://www.g6csy.net/c96/database.html

See the version serial no. 872885

Or here - http://www.1896mauser.com/index.html

I've seen pictures of whole Chinese regiments with these during the civil war, don't half look silly with hundreds of troops with them.

IIRC didn't churchill use one in the Boar war?

These GNBB do have a kick in them, but the mag is a bitch to reload in field

Nice!! Though I notice that there is no switch on the side of that model, as on the VFC one (a switch I'm assuming was for the full auto, as it is only decoration on the HFC single action model), and the mag is longer than the airsoft ones. Just an innacuracy with the reproduction I expect. Cool, I think I'll go ahead and get a custom holster done then. Cheers fellas!

Just remembered.
While crawling fleabay I'm sure I saw a holster for one of these that would take a long mag.
I think it was Argentinian in origin. Had a leather 'extension' for the mag cover.

Worth a check

I got a short mag from Wolf Armouries for mine ,makes such a difference pulling a loaded gun out of the holster instead of scrabbling in my pocket for a mag.

the chinese copyed them

as for use, ive got at least 1 photo of ss troops using them maybe more

the one i remember was in france 1940, an ss guy had one hanging in its wooden holster from the font of his belt, right by the buckle.

looked like it would have hurt diving to the prone position
i know the russains used them as well, there is the picture from the reichstag roof, with a soviet soldier shooting one in to the sky, though wether captured or issued i dont know

i owned an airsoft one of these, and it was bloody great

there are marushin kits for the m712 (the long mag full auto version of the c96) both in long barrel and short barrel versions and also they are select fire, but they are plastic so none of the good weight on it that the HFC one has