Mauser C96?

glock30 · 11-21-2012, 02:47 PM

Can someone on here please affirm that the Mauser C96 was never adopted by the German military, no one believes me. The weapon was used, but the P-08 was the officially adopted only, not the C96, before or after 1908.

alvin · 11-21-2012, 03:54 PM

Looks like tens of thousands C96s were sold to German and Austrian-Hungarian armed forces before and in WWI. But it was not their "officially adopted" pistol, just an emergency pistol shortage measure. Since it's not adopted by German, it got the chance to spread across the world.

Douglas Jr. · 11-22-2012, 07:30 AM

Certainly not adopted but several thousands were purchased and issued to military units during WWI (and, in a lesser scale, during WWII).

Douglas

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glock30 User Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Obama LAND Posts: 206 Thanks: 18 Thanked 17 Times in 14 Posts	Mauser C96? Can someone on here please affirm that the Mauser C96 was never adopted by the German military, no one believes me. The weapon was used, but the P-08 was the officially adopted only, not the C96, before or after 1908.

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alvin User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: US Posts: 3,843 Thanks: 132 Thanked 729 Times in 438 Posts	Looks like tens of thousands C96s were sold to German and Austrian-Hungarian armed forces before and in WWI. But it was not their "officially adopted" pistol, just an emergency pistol shortage measure. Since it's not adopted by German, it got the chance to spread across the world.

11-22-2012, 07:30 AM	#3
Douglas Jr. User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: South America Posts: 948 Thanks: 598 Thanked 584 Times in 254 Posts	Certainly not adopted but several thousands were purchased and issued to military units during WWI (and, in a lesser scale, during WWII). Douglas