Bought two pistols

[Curss]

Originally Posted by alvin

While I looked at this Parabellum, I was thinking, why didn't Mauser reproduce some C96s. C96 production cost was similar to that of Luger. If they could reproduce Luger and sell at reasonable price, they should be able to make C96 too. Probably the market is too small for them to do that... people on internet expect Norinco could do that. Norinco definitely can make that... most likely won't be in German quality, but should be better than American small business refurbished/reworked C96.., no problem at all, not hard for for them, and probably cheaper.

I'd buy a newly made C96 in a heartbeat! I love when old guns get reproduced, makes me feel less guilty when an old one breaks or wears out. (Of course it might take me a long time to save up for such a pistol!)

[alvin]

Originally Posted by Curss

I'd buy a newly made C96 in a heartbeat! I love when old guns get reproduced, makes me feel less guilty when an old one breaks or wears out. (Of course it might take me a long time to save up for such a pistol!)

Some C96s are simply stone mint. I saw recent edition of Blue Book presenting a mint Bolo, for example. But there are other stone mint ones. Those should NOT be fired. Keep it in that shape. If it's not stone mint, say, it's a 97% or 98% very high condition gun, firing 10 or 20 rounds won't wear it down to a different gun. And, it confirms an important thing -- it works. That's important. Not firing a high condition gun is a "business decision", but it better works. Really cannot tell without test firing. When a nice gun works, I love it.

I test fired a few dozens of C96s, most were nice ones. Almost all of them works fine without any problem. But I don't fire Tokarev ammo, no need to test those on nice C96s.