Miniature C96s
 

On auction now. Not mine. Function like a full scale one. A little bit less than 3".

That's the biggest penny I've ever seen!

What auction?

In fact there are four differents C96!

http://www.proxibid.com

Searching "broomhandle"

LOL! Must be from Texas.

- WOT

Thanks Alvin. Interesting site.

The auction says 2 5/8" barrel...a penny is ~.750"...that would make it ~6 1/2" OAL...about half-scale...

http://www.proxibid.com/asp/LotDetai...57480#topoflot

Quite impressive...although I don't recognize the cartridge...image is too blurry...

I can't afford it...alvin - buy it... ;)

Struggling.... I've cancelled my lifetime vacations for guns. I suffer in vacation and don't enjoy anything else anyway, not a problem for me. But other family members have different view on this. Where to cut extra corner without causing family trouble is a big headache..... hmm.... cigarettes.... hopefully this time I can quit.

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Quit smoking, and I will have my car running for another five years. It's 180K miles now, and have some issues, but it still rolls. As long as it can carry me from point A to point B, I can go with it. The air conditioner was broken but the summer is over. I just replaced 4 tires in Costco, that $$ needs to be recovered anyway. That's the plan. I told my brother never spending on car 3000mi checking, 10000mi checking, 20000mi checking.... oil change plus fixing on-demand is good enough....checking for what.... it's finally a throw-away item after certain mileage no matter how new the chairs look like, and junk yard paying by car's weight. He did not listen to me.

That C96 is a little beauty. The cartridge doesn't appear to be bottle-necked so it may be 9mm.

Charlie

Too small...a 9mm would be ~1/2 the width of the penny...that cartridge is ~1/4 the width...I've never seen a 4mm, but possibly that...or maybe just a home-machined cartridge as well as the pistol...a .22 RF would be logical but maybe not correct in the builders mind...

I don't have a .25ACP on hand, but the little cartridge in the pics looks too slim and long to be .25...

There's a CostCo in Madagascar??? There's not even one here in WNY but they can open one in Madagascar??? :mad:

Sorry, I misspelled it. Never been to Madagascar, but my place carries a similar weird name. Not sure the name came from which language. :roflmao: Probably Indian. But I will keep Madagascar there, for unknown reason, I like that name.

For the craftsman who can make this scaled model, creating a customized cartridge for display should be a piece of cake. If there were a mini clip, things would be better.

Q: is this thing considered being a firearm, FFL required? C&R? Or like airsoft no control?

I suppose you'll want a 20 rd detachable magazine for it... :D

No. What I chase is CORRECTNESS.

If it's a Schnell model, sure. For semi-auto model, no. Also, I am not fancy on a particular variation, all of them are equal to me. The most attractive one to me is the one that I don't have.

No one knows. I called them. No FFL required.

Who's the seller of these things? Not many people have these. Back a while ago, I saw a NAPCA member selling those, not sure coming from the same source or not.

Now I understand where the six-penny-length comes from. The text description says barrel length being 2 5/8", I misread and thought that's the total length. Full scale barrel is 5 1/2", half of that is 2 3/4". So half scaled miniature.

That thing is just too cool. I like :)

Ironically, this real one comes with matching stock was a little bit cheaper than the mini toy. Pix copied from German auction site. Sold a few days ago, 2100 EURO... roughly USD 3087

Miniature is another taste. Probably unusual.