Long awaited ebook on the Mauser C96
 

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Just a few words to let you know that we have published a new Ebook on the German Mauser C96 pistol.

The title is : The Mauser C96 Explained

We are sure that the content will be appreciated either by collectors and shooters as beside historic data, a great deal was devoted to the mechanic of the pistol, which is often overlooked in classic books on the subject.

Two technical animated sequences are included with a host of other unpublished documents.

Here is the download url : http://users.skynet.be/HL-Editions/ebook/c96enload.htm

Here is our firearms ebooks full list : http://users.skynet.be/HL-Editions/ebook/liste01.htm

Best regards

H&L Publishing

www.hlebooks.com

Ebook's content

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" works
- 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

MAUSER - Historic details
- The Mauser legacy
- Paul and Wilhelm Mauser
- The Mauser's bolt action rifle
- The Oberndorf Mauser factory
- The Mauser zigzag revolver
- "Waffenfabrik Mauser A.G" a Ludwig Loewe asset
- Mauser semi-auto pistols (C96, Model 1914, Hsc)

Bibliography and Resources

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When will your fine books be available to Macintosh owners?

Dok

For Mac users, it appears that the PC simulator : "Virtual PC" from Connectics works very well. We got that news through a discussion with a customer who bought several of our ebooks and can read them with its Mac (the animated sequences as well)

For Mac users, here is the url where to find Virtual PC

http://www.connectix.com/

Gerard,

Glad you could join us here at the New Lugerforum discussions.

Thanks for the notification of your latest e-book, even if it is off-topic, many of our members also are interested in the C-96.

And also thank you for the information on the ability for Macintosh to use your e-books with with the PC emulation product you mentioned. I have had several inquiries from Mac owners on whether or not your books could be used on a Macintosh.

I liked the advertisement for the Navy magazine much better, and it was noticeably shorter.

Very subtle Johnny. <img src="graemlins/beerchug.gif" border="0" alt="[cheers]" />

I had to read it twice, I knew there was a reason my 1SG told me not to think sober [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

Very true! <img src="graemlins/drink.gif" border="0" alt="[cherrsagai]" />

[quote]Originally posted by Johnny Peppers:
<strong>I liked the advertisement for the Navy magazine much better, and it was noticeably shorter.</strong><hr></blockquote>

And on topic.

Might it be useful to have a Forum section for notices and announcements?

--Dwight

Dwight,

We had such a section in the old forum... Gerard didn't use that then, what makes you think he would use it now?

Dok [img]wink.gif[/img]

[quote]We had such a section in the old forum... Gerard didn't use that then, what makes you think he would use it now?

Dok [img]wink.gif[/img] <hr></blockquote>

So who knew ?

Anyway, a mechanism exist now for a moderator to move a post to another forum-category, yes?

--Dwight

Yes, A mechanism does exist for a moderator or admin to move a message thread...but not an individual post.

Besides, the current Announcement forum is strictly for use by Moderators and Admins for general announcements that relate to the operation of Lugerforum.com and the Luger Discussion Forums... So I guess that this General Discussions is as good a place as any to make a book announcement even it if it was
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Dear Friends,

I downloaded the C96 e-book and discovered that the company also has the same type of book on the Luger. I didn't see any mention in any of the posts that there is such a book on the Luger. Am I the only one who missed mention of it?

What I find valuable in those books is that the mechanics of the pistols are gone into in detail. I haven't run across any other books that do.

Regards,
Jack

Jack,

There are indeed four e-books on the Luger by Gerard Henrotin and they contain wonderful illustrations and details. They are a great buy for the price... I own all four of the Luger e-books and I am very pleased with them. They were previously limited to use by PC users, but the post above that says there is an emulation software that will permit their use on the Macintosh will please many of the forum members who own that type of Computer.

Also please contact me off-line Jack.

john.m.sabato@saic.comPC

John Sabato... [img]mad.gif[/img]

Please don't refer to a Macintosh as a "PC"...

Otherwise Johnny Peppers, Big Norm and I will come over there and beat on your head! <img src="graemlins/cussing.gif" border="0" alt="[grrrrrrr]" />

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

Dok <img src="graemlins/nono.gif" border="0" alt="[nono]" />

OOPS! Sorry guys, it was just a slip in terminology...

I have edited my post to be P.C. [img]rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]biggrin.gif[/img]