Interesting Old .22 Luger Thread

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by Rick W.

Sounds like a project for you huh?...............

I already did such a project, based on a Mauser C96. I used a shortened RCBS .223 Remington die set to form .223 Remington brass to ~1.000 (C96 30 cal length). I used a Clymer 256 Win Mag chambering reamer with a .25 cal barrel blank threaded to fit a cut-back C96 barrel extension. I posted a pic of the resulting mongrel some time back. It originally had a quite long barrel, but I shortened it to ~C96 length eventually. I still have the complete barrel/extension here somewhere (pic below).

It worked out very well, but I could not interest any of my then-buddies in it. They all wanted big bore magnums.

I still have my reloading notes, along with a couple hundred leftover bullets. I called it a 256 Cal Mauser.

Couldn't find the pic of the assembled 256 long-barrel C96...Just the barreled extension...And a pic of the shortened 256 Mauser barreled extension, with a pic (shown enlarged) of the '256 Mauser' cartridge...