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Originally Posted by DonVoigt
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Whether or not the dished follower was necessary or not, it is present in many Red 9s; so many that in the past it was "assumed" that a Red 9 without the dished follower indicated a "wrong" follower. I'm talking 50 years ago of course, maybe this has been elucidated since then.
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Purely IME, the mistaken connection of 9x25 Mauser magazine followers and Imperial Army contract C96 pistols seems to date to the early 1990s, and a batch of mismatched C96s imported by CAI. Some fairly large number of those guns had 9x25 Mauser followers, which suggested some interesting lines of speculation concerning their provenance.
That was the first time I saw a 9x25 Mauser follower in a 9x19 C96 (and I had handled and owned my share of "Red Nines" by then). The unique connection between the 9x25 magazine follower and the 9x25 C96 was documented as early as 1967, with "System Mauser" (Breathed & Schroeder).