It’s one of those guns that turns heads and a great number of shooters over the years, from soldiers to generals from directors to royals, have holstered the unconventional C96 ‘Broomhandle’ Mauser to seemingly elicit this very response from would-be onlookers. Jun 19, 2012 So instead I will leave you with this excellent series of photos of the Mauser 1896 “Broomhandle” pistol, sent to us by reader Roberto. The C96 has a really intricate “we don’t need no skinkin’ pins” trigger mechanism, and these photos show.
Field stripping the Mauser C96
- The first four stripping steps
- The takedown latch is of paramount importance
- Dismounting the firing pin in very early models
- The bolt retainer
Advanced dismounting the Mauser C96
- The extractor
- The rear sight blade and latch
- Magazine floorplate plunger and trigger
- Dismounting the lock sub-frame
- Hammer and safety lever
- Sear actuator and sear spring
- Mainspring plunger and rocker coupling
- Mainspring and guides
- When replacing the rocker coupling (tip 1)
- To assemble the barrel group (tip 2)
- To reassemble the action frame and the barrel group (tip 3)
Technical description of the Mauser C96
- The Mauser C96 pistol consists of four main parts
- The barrel and extension
- The magazine well
- When the bolt is drawn rearwards with a empty magazine
- The rear and front sight
- The bolt stop
- The barrel extension
- The bolt
- The receiver
- The lock sub-frame
Operation of the Mauser C96
- A 'prop-up' type of locking
- Close-up animated sequence
- Full size animated sequence
- Hammer and sear relation
- Disconnecting work of the forward mainspring plunger
- Locking and unlocking of the bolt
- The bolt's rear travel
- Disconnection in early models
- The ejector
The safety of the Mauser C96
- Long type safety lever on early models
- Late safety of the first type
- Late safety of the second type or 'NS' safety
- Hammer-operated safety lever
- Universal safety
- Model 1902 safety prototype
Prototypes and pre-production Models
- A working prototype materialized by the summer of 1894
- German patent (No. 90430)
- Six-shot and a twenty-shot model
- The final stage for mass production
- The spur hammer replaced by a 'Cone Hammer'
- The twenty-shot version
- An experimental 6 mm cartridge
- 1896 prototype of a ten-shot carbine
Mauser C96 early Models
- Last minute changes before the mass production launch
- Introduction of the two locking lugs
- Improvement of the lock sub-frame
- The mainspring front plunger
- Minor changes
- From about the serial number 360 onward
Mauser C96 'Cone Hammer' variations
- Modification of the barrel extension
- Cone Hammer 10-shot variations described
- The left rear milled out side panel modified
- Cone Hammer 6-shot variations described
- Cone Hammer 20-shot variations described
- Cone Hammer resold by Westley Richards
- Rear sight with a peep type aperture
Mauser C96 'Large ring Hammer' variations
- At about serial number 15,000, the 'Flat side' variation
- Italian Navy contract
- Modification of the trigger and rear sight
- firing pin with a single locking lug
- The 'shallow-milled' panel variation
- Large ring 'Bolo' 10-shot
- The 'Bolo' variation
- The new two-lug firing pin
- Large ring 6-shot 'Officer Model'
Mauser C96 'Small ring Hammer' variations
- Small ring Hammer 10-shot
- The improved 'NS' safety
- Shorter extractor
- Modification of the barrel extension
- The barrel rifling was changed
- The Mauser banner trademark
- The 9 mm Export
- The 'Red Nine' variation
- Small ring Hammer 6-shot
- The reinforced chamber
Post-War 1920 Reworks and 1930 Model
- 1920 Rework 10-shot
- Under the new German Republic of Weimar
- Mauser pistols out of Germany
- French Gendarmerie
- The long barreled 'Bolo'
- Post War regular 10-shot production
- Post War special and experimental models
- Early 1930 models
- The new 'Universal Safety'
- 1930 model (711) with the frame for the selective fire model
The 'Schnellfeuer' Model
- A selective fire carbine prototype
- Joseph Nickl model
- Karl Westinger model
- Technical description of the Westinger model
- Dismounting the Westinger model
How the Mauser C96 'Schnellfeuer' functions
- The lock frame of the 'Schnellfeuer'
- How act the selecting-fire lever
- The second sear
- The articulated member of the trigger
- A specific area was milled out in the barrel extension
- To render the full automatic option inoperative for ever
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- The first four stripping steps
- The takedown latch is of paramount importance
- Dismounting the firing pin in very early models
- The bolt retainer
Advanced dismounting the Mauser C96
- The extractor
- The rear sight blade and latch
- Magazine floorplate plunger and trigger
- Dismounting the lock sub-frame
- Hammer and safety lever
- Sear actuator and sear spring
- Mainspring plunger and rocker coupling
- Mainspring and guides
- When replacing the rocker coupling (tip 1)
- To assemble the barrel group (tip 2)
- To reassemble the action frame and the barrel group (tip 3)
Technical description of the Mauser C96
- The Mauser C96 pistol consists of four main parts
- The barrel and extension
- The magazine well
- When the bolt is drawn rearwards with a empty magazine
- The rear and front sight
- The bolt stop
- The barrel extension
- The bolt
- The receiver
- The lock sub-frame
Operation of the Mauser C96
- A 'prop-up' type of locking
- Close-up animated sequence
- Full size animated sequence
- Hammer and sear relation
- Disconnecting work of the forward mainspring plunger
- Locking and unlocking of the bolt
- The bolt's rear travel
- Disconnection in early models
- The ejector
The safety of the Mauser C96
- Long type safety lever on early models
- Late safety of the first type
- Late safety of the second type or 'NS' safety
- Hammer-operated safety lever
- Universal safety
- Model 1902 safety prototype
Prototypes and pre-production Models
- A working prototype materialized by the summer of 1894
- German patent (No. 90430)
- Six-shot and a twenty-shot model
- The final stage for mass production
- The spur hammer replaced by a 'Cone Hammer'
- The twenty-shot version
- An experimental 6 mm cartridge
- 1896 prototype of a ten-shot carbine
Mauser C96 early Models
- Last minute changes before the mass production launch
- Introduction of the two locking lugs
- Improvement of the lock sub-frame
- The mainspring front plunger
- Minor changes
- From about the serial number 360 onward
Mauser C96 'Cone Hammer' variations
- Modification of the barrel extension
- Cone Hammer 10-shot variations described
- The left rear milled out side panel modified
- Cone Hammer 6-shot variations described
- Cone Hammer 20-shot variations described
- Cone Hammer resold by Westley Richards
- Rear sight with a peep type aperture
Mauser C96 'Large ring Hammer' variations
- At about serial number 15,000, the 'Flat side' variation
- Italian Navy contract
- Modification of the trigger and rear sight
- firing pin with a single locking lug
- The 'shallow-milled' panel variation
- Large ring 'Bolo' 10-shot
- The 'Bolo' variation
- The new two-lug firing pin
- Large ring 6-shot 'Officer Model'
Mauser C96 'Small ring Hammer' variations
- Small ring Hammer 10-shot
- The improved 'NS' safety
- Shorter extractor
- Modification of the barrel extension
- The barrel rifling was changed
- The Mauser banner trademark
- The 9 mm Export
- The 'Red Nine' variation
- Small ring Hammer 6-shot
- The reinforced chamber
Post-War 1920 Reworks and 1930 Model
- 1920 Rework 10-shot
- Under the new German Republic of Weimar
- Mauser pistols out of Germany
- French Gendarmerie
- The long barreled 'Bolo'
- Post War regular 10-shot production
- Post War special and experimental models
- Early 1930 models
- The new 'Universal Safety'
- 1930 model (711) with the frame for the selective fire model
The 'Schnellfeuer' Model
- A selective fire carbine prototype
- Joseph Nickl model
- Karl Westinger model
- Technical description of the Westinger model
- Dismounting the Westinger model
How the Mauser C96 'Schnellfeuer' functions
- The lock frame of the 'Schnellfeuer'
- How act the selecting-fire lever
- The second sear
- The articulated member of the trigger
- A specific area was milled out in the barrel extension
- To render the full automatic option inoperative for ever
Since the year 2000, 'HLebooks.com' is specialized in textbooks on collectable firearms.
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