A few Mauser C96 examples

[conehammer]

Originally Posted by Vlim

Conehammer, glad you also made it here. It is a real pity that the C96 forum has turned into an unmanaged cess pool with a missing site owner/moderator....

I made a backup of the main 1896-site many months ago, so if the site disappears, at least we will be able to reconstruct it. The forum must be considered lost, as no-one but the site owner has administrator rights there.

Hi Vlim, thanks. I've given up and conceded that the Mauser 1896
site will never recover or be recovered. I can only wonder what happened to Nemo. I've been a member here for some while but
have little to contribute to the greater topic which is this site's focus. I have but three Lugers in my collection, 1 Artillery with wrong grips, a sad .30 which was my very first pistol and a 9mm 'something' that was sold as a Russian WWII rework.

Since the early 1970s the C96 captured my imagination. I began with a mis matched WWII commercial, now long gone that I shot nearly every week end for years with my own hand loads. I number two shooters in all that I have and those rarely see ammo these days. I rust blued them myself after having Redman reline them.

I have not added anything new to my C96 collection in a while having delved whole hog into my 1/10 armor which I displayed here once a while back. But I visit from time to time to see what's going on.

I maintain my collection, realizing that I am fortunate to have them; as with many others I feel that the well being of a certain amount of history has been entrusted to me and it's my responsibility to see them taken care of.

Be well,

Jerry

[abukafura]

About 5-6 years ago I purchased one of the original C96 Turkish contract conehammers. It was not in the greatest shape but I couldn't pass up the chance to have one of these rarities in my collection. I know the purists on the site will cringe (perhaps understandably so), but I just sent it off to be restored to as near original condition as possible. My reasoning is that I will most likely never part with this Broom and I just wanted to to look nice again. When I get it back I will share photos here on the Forum. In retrospect I wish I had taken some "before" photos for comparison.