My 'New' C96 Toy
I wanted to share something that I've been looking for for almost 30 years! The wait finally paid off!
I have a number of other C96 Mausers in both .30 Mauser and 9mm but THIS one's very, very special!
It's a post war (WWI) C96 - production date was about 1928/1929. What makes it 'very special' is that it was converted to 9mm/completely rebuilt in 1983, all new springs, rust blued to 'factory new' by ex-Mauser gunsmiths who were hired by The Oyster Bay Trading Company. 'She' has a new Lothar Walther barrel machined to Mauser specs and expertly installed! The Chinese stock was quality hand carved, numbered to the gun and fitted expertly to the bolo.
The guy who sent them the gun in '83 paid $700 (in 1980's dollars) and it took a year to complete. The old German craftsmen who worked for Mauser during the war are most certainly all gone now. It probably would cost a lot more today to duplicate it.
I've always wanted a good C96 shooter - in 9mm - and it's a tack driver out to about 300 yards.
It's the nicest Mauser Werke, Oberndorf-am-Necker I have ever had the privilege of laying my hands on! She's my newest vault queen!
She only had about 300 rounds put through her when I found her and I've already put another 300 rounds through her without a jam!
As a life long collector of military handguns, I'm really excited about this one and thought a few of you might get a kick out of seeing her!
Scott
I have a number of other C96 Mausers in both .30 Mauser and 9mm but THIS one's very, very special!
It's a post war (WWI) C96 - production date was about 1928/1929. What makes it 'very special' is that it was converted to 9mm/completely rebuilt in 1983, all new springs, rust blued to 'factory new' by ex-Mauser gunsmiths who were hired by The Oyster Bay Trading Company. 'She' has a new Lothar Walther barrel machined to Mauser specs and expertly installed! The Chinese stock was quality hand carved, numbered to the gun and fitted expertly to the bolo.
The guy who sent them the gun in '83 paid $700 (in 1980's dollars) and it took a year to complete. The old German craftsmen who worked for Mauser during the war are most certainly all gone now. It probably would cost a lot more today to duplicate it.
I've always wanted a good C96 shooter - in 9mm - and it's a tack driver out to about 300 yards.
It's the nicest Mauser Werke, Oberndorf-am-Necker I have ever had the privilege of laying my hands on! She's my newest vault queen!
She only had about 300 rounds put through her when I found her and I've already put another 300 rounds through her without a jam!
As a life long collector of military handguns, I'm really excited about this one and thought a few of you might get a kick out of seeing her!
Scott
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I wanted to share something that I've been looking for for almost 30 years! The wait finally paid off!
I have a number of other C96 Mausers in both .30 Mauser and 9mm but THIS one's very, very special!
It's a post war (WWI) C96 - production date was about 1928/1929. What makes it 'very special' is that it was converted to 9mm/completely rebuilt in 1983, all new springs, rust blued to 'factory new' by ex-Mauser gunsmiths who were hired by The Oyster Bay Trading Company. 'She' has a new Lothar Walther barrel machined to Mauser specs and expertly installed! The Chinese stock was quality hand carved, numbered to the gun and fitted expertly to the bolo.
The guy who sent them the gun in '83 paid $700 (in 1980's dollars) and it took a year to complete. The old German craftsmen who worked for Mauser during the war are most certainly all gone now. It probably would cost a lot more today to duplicate it.
I've always wanted a good C96 shooter - in 9mm - and it's a tack driver out to about 300 yards.
It's the nicest Mauser Werke, Oberndorf-am-Necker I have ever had the privilege of laying my hands on! She's my newest vault queen!
She only had about 300 rounds put through her when I found her and I've already put another 300 rounds through her without a jam!
As a life long collector of military handguns, I'm really excited about this one and thought a few of you might get a kick out of seeing her!
Scott0 -
9mm - and it's a tack driver out to about 300 yards.?
Thas got to be a keeper[;)]0 -
Im Happy for you. [8D]
Greg
Former Marine
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The Brooms hold a very special place for me also. I can attest that Oyster Bay produced some fine work in the 90's. Weapons that will be shooting for another hundred years.
Shooting a C96 is like driving an Excalibre. Many go faster, but none go with as much class.
Nice piece.
Stolen from, and with thanks, to Kiwibird0 -
Skyking - Here's a shot of the most embarrassing gun I ever owned ... until 1975!
My grandfather gave it to me - it was a battlefield pick up back in Nov. '14 by an English officer, an Edward Harrington - at the First Battle of Ypes - the manufacture date is 1914, so I guess it was brand spanking new! Harrington carried it throughout the war - took excellent care of it - and in 1918 he befriended my grandfather shortly before his death - due to the Spanish Influenza Epidemic of `18.
Anyway, my grandfather was strictly a bird hunter and tucked it away for 35 years, When I was nine my father bought me a Rem. 511 which I asolutely revered - a true love story!
My poor grandfather decided I was old enough for a gun from him, too, so the grand old guy made me a present (foisted off) of the .30 Mauser C96 ... shortly after I had proudly shown my new Remington around to all my friends and established my newly acquired statis among the boys of rural MI!
I took one horrified look at the Broomhandle - it was the ugliest hunk of iron I had ever seen - quickly thanked him and immediately stuffed it away in the darkest recesses of one of my dad's largest gun cabinets where it stayed hidden for about five years. Then one day some friends and I took it out - they laughed - we fired a couple of rounds through it - they were impressed and I was embarrassed! It was STILL the nastiest plug-ugly gun I had ever seen and in self-defence I quickly tucked it away again until I was about 30!
From the moment that it ws resurrected in 1975 I just couldn't get enough of 'em! Later after acquiring a couple of Red Nines, I always felt a little guilty about shooting away their collector's value. My rebuilt bolo is the shooter I have wanted for a long
time!
Just thought I'd share some history with ya - Broomhandles ARE an acquired taste. I imagine there are some boys out there who have been given 1911 45s that are currently just as horrified when they compared them to their dad's Glocks and Sigs ... and they'll probably hide them away somewhere. In about twenty years there'll probably be a 'slabsides revival' in a lot of households around the country! They'll be telling their kids, "It's an acquired taste!" LOL
Nice to find another who appreciates `true beauty! `
Dialed 911
I'm on hold
Sure wish I had that gun I sold!0
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