"If you have seen the inside of, say, a DP 28 light machine gun, this will look immediately familiar." Well yeah, who hasn't stripped a DP 28 light machine gun before? lol Ian, you rock. Walking encyclopedia of guns and their mechanisms.
Yeah, when I'm not boning up on the excesses of modern feminism, I'm learning about obscure weapons I'll never see. Sometimes I mix some pron in there =P
It's outward appearance immediately reminded me of the VZ61. Too bad this pistol was not adopted by Germany with some sort of stock system and in a caliber they were already using for Sturmtruppen. It is way before it's time, and super-neat. I am amazed how your channel constantly educates me about arms I never knew existed.
+J.L. Roberts Select fire, a forward vertical grip (Adding more weight beneath the barrel and being held for stability - Might need a slightly longer barrel to fully fit a hand) and a folding stock and you've got yourself a pretty cool machine pistol.
I've always liked German made (designed) things like that top cover that don't require screws or pins to stay where they belong and the two pins to hold the spring captive is just a bonus.
This pistol is really cool in light of its looks. what I like the most is the feature, where a full magazine is inserted into the gun, the bolt goes forward and chambers the first round making the ready to fire immediately. To me that is a great tactical innovation where an emergency reload is required. I would like to see modern semi automatic pistols have that innovation.
Yeah. Modern designs seems like pure copies of Berettas, Colts or Walthers, but using aluminun and polymers ! In the past, gunsmiths was more innovatives.
Just the amount and quality of the milling, of course done on manual machines, is enough to move to tears anyone who knows anything about steelworking. Then there is the rust blueing process... A magnificent folly of a time where worksmanship was far less expensive than is today. To make it today, even with CNC machines, it would probably cost a 5 digit sum...
But you can't! So just give up on your dream and let your soul turn a palid,cold, damp grey and go work at something unrewarding and miserable. Also, have children with a nondescript woman who turns into a human walrus with about the same personality you would expect. Maybe, if you're lucky, your children will move faaaaaaar away so they cannot disgrace you when they turn LGTQ whatever-the-phuk-else. Go buy a used Ruger P93 DC with only 1 magazine( probably the wrong one, too😂) and never shoot it because you live in some anus licker state like NY or Connecticut. And there you go.
Did you just say 20 rounds? Jeez. This thing is awesome. Its a shame you don't see styles like this any more. For aesthetic purposes, it looks really neat. I'd love to see a replica of this. That auto cambering mechanism is pretty cool too.
+Sir Slam The problem is that people tend to want an accurate gun (read "a long barrel") and the barrel on this gun - for its size- is quite short in comparison to pistols with a grip magazine.
Think about how front-heavy a 20 round clip on the front-half of your gun would be... Only a people who heft giant ornate beer steins since late childhood would have the wrists to use one of these well!😅
@@KickyFut congratultions KickyFut - You have managed to figure out the true reason why we drink beer in very big steins :-) It´s not because we like to drink beer, it's kind of secret shooting-training :-)
+Cullen Mayes Of course, most of the population is right handed after all (militaries back then didn't care for lefties, hell neither did schools etc. until much later (one of my relatives who went to school in the 60's was still punished for wanting to write with his left hand (in Germany) so accepting lefties wasn't the norm)) note: I am not saying that was great or anything, I am just stating a fact!
DreamingFlurry I can understand they did that when it comes to bolt-action rifles and other military weapons. I think even today, left-handed soldiers are adviced to learn to shoot right-handed. It's not as forced as it used to be, though (I think we all can agree that's a step in the right direction, not to force it and instead encourage it).
I agree! Ambidextrous shooting is extremely beneficial in urban environments! I may be a leftie, but it's around 60/40 of my total functions. I can do tons of stuff with both hands well, minus writing/drawing. It drives me nuts in videogames on all right corners that I can't just switch hands!😅
It's like an old-school version of the Tec-9. Except not shitty like a Tec-9. Idk why these weren't more popular, that looks like a relatively compact, powerful, high firepower weapon. Make a few adjustments and frankly that could be an excellent duty or service pistol.
+Will Moon I don't think there could be a way to have the magazine go into the handle while also making the gun smaller - don't underestimate how huge and heavy that thing is right there, that's not something you would want as a modern service pistol.
+Will Moon -- Could have something to do with the bit about the bolt flying across the room. If Ian is leery of it considering the number of weapons he's handily disassembled it's probably not exactly a selling point for a weapon of war. Looking for your pistol bolt in a dark, muddy field while people are shooting at you is probably not a good thing.
Thats why I said it needs a few adjustments. Hey, the DShK is one of the most popular heavy machine guns in the world and it works the same way, clearly it could be a military weapon.
+Will Moon I'd say a pistol grip and the front loading 20 shot magazine are about the only 2 things the weapons really share. Mechanically they have little in common (safety mechanism, barrel length, operating mechanism, so forth). Technically 9mm cartridge being fired, but this is a 9x21 I believe Ian said vs a 9x19.
+Will Moon It had to compete with contemporary designs of the time like the Colt 1911. This was the design of the previous war. Tried, true, but boring to everyone who looked at it. Everyone wanted internal grip magazines, pocket pistols, compact, compact, compact. Mauser also wanted a military contract. It just wasn't marketable.
Feel like the Germans really like the automatically load thing. In the HK VP9, when the slid hold open, and you slam the magazine in there, the slid goes home and chamber the round.. Like in stress situations, you can't get the magazine in on the first try, and you have to slam it in there, it's a useful feature.
If I remember correctly, it's been 40 plus years since I cleaned one, the M60 had a similar trick. There was a yoke that when pulled out allowed the bolt assembly out the rear of the weapon, and then the yoke could be inserted into the buffer assembly (I think) to maintain the spring tension.
The makers of a hundred and one different models of simple blowback pistols tried to increase the caliber to 9mm Parabellum, to keep the simplicity and avoid going to the various locked breech designs. But it looks like this simple flapper-lock could be made into a flapper-delayed blowback action. Such a modification would be a fairly simple addition to a number of blowback pistols, adding relatively little cost or complexity of manufacture.
Thanks, to me, who owned a C96, American Eagle Luger, and other German guns, the Mauser 06/08 had always fascinated me. My Navy Luger was always one of the most elegant handguns ever made, and still is!
This may be hard to believe but, when I was a kid (mid-late eighties), I had a toy version of this exact model. I believe it was meant to fire plastic cap strips, but I never had any.. The toy was all black (no orange tips back then!), had a removable magazine and was made from that super tough plastic which was almost as durable as the steel the gun was originally made from. It's outer dimensions must have been spot-on.. It looked identical to the one you have in your hand here (apart from the black handles). I never actually knew which model of pistol it was based on, until now! A pity they are so rare.. I wonder why the design never took off..?
2:49 As a fellow southpaw, I always hope Ian will demonstrate things like safety operation left-handed as well lol. Unbelievably nifty little pistol, thanks for the video!
I wonder why the "automatic first round chambering" didn't catch on. Seems like a logical feature to have. Are there any objective reasons it isn't used?
I understand the problem with a top-loader like most rifles of the period having the bolt slam forward on insertion of cartridges (Garand Thumb syndrome) but for a bottom loader like this? I think it's a fantastic mechanism.
May depend on the way the prime customers (military, police) prefered the weapon to be carried. In Europe that might very well be "no round chambered" since quick draw situations are very rare
Makes me wonder why this didn't replace the C96. The ammunition perhaps? It seems like a much more user friendly design than the C96, yet the C96 was later adapted to the 9mm Luger cartridge and was still being produced well into the 1930's. This design also seems to be the origin of the detachable magazine used in late production C96's and the Schnellfeuer.
I love your channel, and the vast amount of forgotten firearms you showcase is amazing. I do have 1 minor correction though: it's 9x25mm Mauser, not 9x21mm.
@@davehood2667Cartridges Of The World is an invaluable reference to have in your library, as is Handguns of the World: Military Revolvers and Self Loaders 1870-1945.
Oh, Ian! All those hidden gems that you find.. Every time I think I know something about firearms, you make me realize I really don't know sh**t.. Keep your knowlege pouring over us!
+forgotten weapons i love your videos's i've honestly learned more about guns from you than any where else this is the cool stuff to learn where did the designs we see now originally come from and things like that
The Mauser 06/08 has been my favorite looking pistol ever since I discovered its existence (I even use it in some of my avatars). Next favorite is, of course, the C96. [Wish some company had the balls to make repros of either or both of them].
Mauser's later HSc does that magazine reload/drop slide thing too; there is, as far as I can tell, no other way to get it to close, and it has a magazine safety to boot, so if you lose the magazine you are completely beached.
Ian I'm sure a man with your extensive knowledge of rare firearms must have an impressive collection. If you were ever so inclined as to produce a video on your personal collection I'd love to see it! Also I feel ya on the budget part.
HFS, this is a vundergun. Why didn't Mauser make any more of these things? I think I'd rather have one of these than the ole C96 Broomhandle. This thing was engineering perfection for it's era, with features so common on firearms made today.
+marvin b My guess is the Mauser broomhandle was already out there and had already saturated the market for those who were looking to buy and were happy with the 9mm bore. The Americans weren't - they'd had failures to stop with the .38 in the Philippines (enter the .45ACP) - and the British were also wedded to the large bore after similar experiences in India in 1857. The British, in particular, put their pistols through hell (the dust, sand and mud tests), and a revolver of the times was much more likely to sail through those tests and keep on firing. Automatics have come a long way in a hundred years, and I suspect the current state of the art would do much better.
+jsm666 Look at the close tolerances of the flaps to the bolt carrier and you can see how in that configuration a grain of sand could disable it. Design needs a tweak.
so elegant, beautiful. Just the sounds of it. Or the magasin, Congratulations to the lucky, and properly wealthy owner. I will never forget this rare pistol.
This great flap locked pistol evolved into the Mauser 1912-14 and the rifle Mauser Selbslader that you showed us before. www.forgottenweapons.com/early-automatic-pistols/mauser-191214/ www.forgottenweapons.com/early-semiauto-rifles/mauser-selbstlader/ The use of the clip to lower the slide was a Mauser standard feature from the 1910, 1914 1934 to the HSC. Thanks for your great work.
Whoever it was that refinished this pistol....hats off to you sir. You've done a fantastic job with this beauty.
Great way to reduce the gun's value
@@hoppinggnomethe4154 so we can buy it easier
@@hoppinggnomethe4154 not always the case.
@@bassassassinnn7459 almost always the case
@@hoppinggnomethe4154 as if one in poor condition had any in the first place...
Wow. That might be the most beautiful automatic pistol ever made.
you may well be correct m8
"If you have seen the inside of, say, a DP 28 light machine gun, this will look immediately familiar."
Well yeah, who hasn't stripped a DP 28 light machine gun before? lol
Ian, you rock. Walking encyclopedia of guns and their mechanisms.
+Colonel Angus Funny seeing you here. A fan of Sargon and Forgotten Weapons, eh?
+Jacob Shepard Aren't we all ?
Yeah, when I'm not boning up on the excesses of modern feminism, I'm learning about obscure weapons I'll never see. Sometimes I mix some pron in there =P
Sounds a lot like my life XD
That actually would be a brilliant easter egg in some action movie, doesn't have to be a western either.
"German Skorpion can't hurt you"
German Skorpion:
Glad I'm not the only one that sees the resemblance
German Skorpion: *laughs in 20 rounds of 9×25mm Mauser*
@@Hades8103 yeah that's a lot hotter than what the original skorpion was packing (32 ACP mostly)
It's outward appearance immediately reminded me of the VZ61. Too bad this pistol was not adopted by Germany with some sort of stock system and in a caliber they were already using for Sturmtruppen. It is way before it's time, and super-neat. I am amazed how your channel constantly educates me about arms I never knew existed.
+J.L. Roberts Select fire, a forward vertical grip (Adding more weight beneath the barrel and being held for stability - Might need a slightly longer barrel to fully fit a hand) and a folding stock and you've got yourself a pretty cool machine pistol.
holy shit ive never seen this before, WHY DO ALL THE COOLEST GUNS HAVE TO BE SO RARE
There is one chance you have-build them by yourself :-)
I've always liked German made (designed) things like that top cover that don't require screws or pins to stay where they belong and the two pins to hold the spring captive is just a bonus.
This pistol is really cool in light of its looks. what I like the most is the feature, where a full magazine is inserted into the gun, the bolt goes forward and chambers the first round making the ready to fire immediately. To me that is a great tactical innovation where an emergency reload is required. I would like to see modern semi automatic pistols have that innovation.
Yeah. Modern designs seems like pure copies of Berettas, Colts or Walthers, but using aluminun and polymers ! In the past, gunsmiths was more innovatives.
I like Mauser´s philosphy on their design.
Just the amount and quality of the milling, of course done on manual machines, is enough to move to tears anyone who knows anything about steelworking.
Then there is the rust blueing process...
A magnificent folly of a time where worksmanship was far less expensive than is today. To make it today, even with CNC machines, it would probably cost a 5 digit sum...
You said it was refinished, the gunsmith who did it is a master of his craft. This gun is a beautiful piece of history and engineering.
That thing is exquisitely machined.
That's like a gentleman's version of the C96. I wish I could own one!
Poppycock! The C/96 is already a gentleman's weapon. This one, more so I'll admit, but still.
Well said. The C96 shoots like a staple gun. The grip is an abomination. Still a gorgeous design...but the Mauser is an order of magnitude above it.
But you can't! So just give up on your dream and let your soul turn a palid,cold, damp grey and go work at something unrewarding and miserable. Also, have children with a nondescript woman who turns into a human walrus with about the same personality you would expect. Maybe, if you're lucky, your children will move faaaaaaar away so they cannot disgrace you when they turn LGTQ whatever-the-phuk-else.
Go buy a used Ruger P93 DC with only 1 magazine( probably the wrong one, too😂) and never shoot it because you live in some anus licker state like NY or Connecticut. And there you go.
Did you just say 20 rounds? Jeez. This thing is awesome. Its a shame you don't see styles like this any more. For aesthetic purposes, it looks really neat. I'd love to see a replica of this. That auto cambering mechanism is pretty cool too.
+Sir Slam The problem is that people tend to want an accurate gun (read "a long barrel") and the barrel on this gun - for its size- is quite short in comparison to pistols with a grip magazine.
Think about how front-heavy a 20 round clip on the front-half of your gun would be... Only a people who heft giant ornate beer steins since late childhood would have the wrists to use one of these well!😅
@@KickyFut congratultions KickyFut - You have managed to figure out the true reason why we drink beer in very big steins :-) It´s not because we like to drink beer, it's kind of secret shooting-training :-)
Danke! 🍺😁
20 rounds - how many decades went by before we saw a 20 round mag in a pistol again?
Honestly the Mauser pistols are beauties. I'd trade a kidney for one.
So why should it be...
you and I should get along so awfully?
The real question... Is your kidney *worth* $27k? 😏
Really? What is your blood type?
If hospitals offered guns and munitions for blood and kidneys the world would be a safer place
"If you're right handed, which of course you're supposed to be..."
+Cullen Mayes Of course, most of the population is right handed after all (militaries back then didn't care for lefties, hell neither did schools etc. until much later (one of my relatives who went to school in the 60's was still punished for wanting to write with his left hand (in Germany) so accepting lefties wasn't the norm))
note: I am not saying that was great or anything, I am just stating a fact!
DreamingFlurry I can understand they did that when it comes to bolt-action rifles and other military weapons. I think even today, left-handed soldiers are adviced to learn to shoot right-handed. It's not as forced as it used to be, though (I think we all can agree that's a step in the right direction, not to force it and instead encourage it).
Proper modern soldiers should learn to shoot with both arms in order to effectively shoot around corners without exposing your entire body.
I agree! Ambidextrous shooting is extremely beneficial in urban environments! I may be a leftie, but it's around 60/40 of my total functions. I can do tons of stuff with both hands well, minus writing/drawing. It drives me nuts in videogames on all right corners that I can't just switch hands!😅
Cullen Mayes time stamp plz?
One of those, half a dozen magazines and I would consider myself very well armed indeed.
I've watched a lot of your videos and by far this is the most desirable weapon you've shown, in my opinion.
What a fantastic design. Beautiful. I wonder how much this piece sold for?
27,500 $
Was just thinking the same thing.
Wonder how hard it would be to find cartridges...
Yeah this thing is just awesome
This is why I love u guys getting ur hands on guns that are so rare and old that nobody else can even touch
-Pulls top off- HOLY FUCK ITS DWARVEN MAGIC
It's like an old-school version of the Tec-9. Except not shitty like a Tec-9. Idk why these weren't more popular, that looks like a relatively compact, powerful, high firepower weapon. Make a few adjustments and frankly that could be an excellent duty or service pistol.
+Will Moon I don't think there could be a way to have the magazine go into the handle while also making the gun smaller - don't underestimate how huge and heavy that thing is right there, that's not something you would want as a modern service pistol.
+Will Moon -- Could have something to do with the bit about the bolt flying across the room. If Ian is leery of it considering the number of weapons he's handily disassembled it's probably not exactly a selling point for a weapon of war. Looking for your pistol bolt in a dark, muddy field while people are shooting at you is probably not a good thing.
Thats why I said it needs a few adjustments. Hey, the DShK is one of the most popular heavy machine guns in the world and it works the same way, clearly it could be a military weapon.
+Will Moon I'd say a pistol grip and the front loading 20 shot magazine are about the only 2 things the weapons really share.
Mechanically they have little in common (safety mechanism, barrel length, operating mechanism, so forth). Technically 9mm cartridge being fired, but this is a 9x21 I believe Ian said vs a 9x19.
+Will Moon
It had to compete with contemporary designs of the time like the Colt 1911. This was the design of the previous war. Tried, true, but boring to everyone who looked at it. Everyone wanted internal grip magazines, pocket pistols, compact, compact, compact.
Mauser also wanted a military contract.
It just wasn't marketable.
Very neat operation, I love the thought process behind different mechanisms.
Feel like the Germans really like the automatically load thing. In the HK VP9, when the slid hold open, and you slam the magazine in there, the slid goes home and chamber the round.. Like in stress situations, you can't get the magazine in on the first try, and you have to slam it in there, it's a useful feature.
I wish it was a more common feature.
Its really a RARE gun.
Thanks for showing.
Love it! If they still make it, I would definitely buy one.
Nice one Ian. I like that one: aesthetically, it looks like a Broomhandle made by Luger instead of Mauser, which is no bad thing.
A beautiful piece of engineering and firearms history. Your knowledge of rare and antique firearms is encyclopaedic!
i find this pistol, oddly beautiful. such a work of art.
I wish these were easier to find, I absolutely adore this design.
Now thats a pretty handsome pistol, what a beauty :)
IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL!
If I remember correctly, it's been 40 plus years since I cleaned one, the M60 had a similar trick. There was a yoke that when pulled out allowed the bolt assembly out the rear of the weapon, and then the yoke could be inserted into the buffer assembly (I think) to maintain the spring tension.
This is the coolest looking handgun I’ve ever seen.
flapper locking system? Sounds like some sort of chastity belt..
+Peter Timowreef "Its time we lock your flapper until a suitable groom comes along."
from the 1920s
Flap has been closed so fap has been forced
The makers of a hundred and one different models of simple blowback pistols tried to increase the caliber to 9mm Parabellum, to keep the simplicity and avoid going to the various locked breech designs. But it looks like this simple flapper-lock could be made into a flapper-delayed blowback action. Such a modification would be a fairly simple addition to a number of blowback pistols, adding relatively little cost or complexity of manufacture.
This is the best model of Mauser pistols I've seen!
this is a beautifully engineered handgun!
Incredible condition. The refinishing is top notch
I think this is the most beautiful pistol I've ever seen. It's a shame more weren't made, because I'll probably never be able to afford one.
Such pistols looks so appealing when almost all the modern pistols are like a vertical box with a horizontal box on top.
We need this pistol nowadays.
I love guns.
what a gorgeous handgun this is.
this gun is in beautiful condition,it looks almost brand new
I'd love to see some repros of this.
63Rat Rod Better off just building one from scratch
Does anybody know anywhere we can get a functional reproduction pistol like this? I am in love with this gun!!
+Ian Dalton There aren't any reproductions, sorry.
+Forgotten Weapons Hey Ian, was it sold? If yes at what price?
It seems very rare.
+Anusideral Yes, for $27,500 (first line of the video description).
+Forgotten Weapons Waah sorry, can't believe I missed that.
+Ian Dalton Too bad right? I really want one of these as well!
The shape is beautiful.
The Model 1914 Mauser pistol also closed the bolt when you inserted a magazine - it did save some time but required the operator to pay attention.
Stunning piece of kit .
That would be the pistol I wanted at that time period. 20 pretty strong 9mm rounds, detachable magazines and a well made design
That may be the coolest looking gun ever made.
Aaand again a very cool pistol, interesting design. Thankx, Mr. McCollum!
Thanks, to me, who owned a C96, American Eagle Luger, and other German guns, the Mauser 06/08 had always fascinated me. My Navy Luger was always one of the most elegant handguns ever made, and still is!
Excellent pistol with many revolutionary innovations.
This may be hard to believe but, when I was a kid (mid-late eighties), I had a toy version of this exact model. I believe it was meant to fire plastic cap strips, but I never had any.. The toy was all black (no orange tips back then!), had a removable magazine and was made from that super tough plastic which was almost as durable as the steel the gun was originally made from. It's outer dimensions must have been spot-on.. It looked identical to the one you have in your hand here (apart from the black handles). I never actually knew which model of pistol it was based on, until now! A pity they are so rare.. I wonder why the design never took off..?
Good on Mauser for making this rmr ready from the factory
This is one of my favorite videos of yours! Thank you!
Ah gute alte Zeit!
That pistol is the definition of gorgeous
2:49 As a fellow southpaw, I always hope Ian will demonstrate things like safety operation left-handed as well lol. Unbelievably nifty little pistol, thanks for the video!
I love the sound the mag makes 😍
Am I the only one who wants to get beers with Ian and just listen to him talk about guns?
I wonder why the "automatic first round chambering" didn't catch on. Seems like a logical feature to have. Are there any objective reasons it isn't used?
I suppose to some degree safety. I'm sure some idiot left their finger on the trigger while inserting a new magazine.
The M1 Garand as we all know has something of that nature.
I understand the problem with a top-loader like most rifles of the period having the bolt slam forward on insertion of cartridges (Garand Thumb syndrome) but for a bottom loader like this? I think it's a fantastic mechanism.
May depend on the way the prime customers (military, police) prefered the weapon to be carried. In Europe that might very well be "no round chambered" since quick draw situations are very rare
Maybe for people who carry "safety off, no round in chamber"
BEAUTIFUL pistol!
So aesthetically pleasing
Makes me wonder why this didn't replace the C96. The ammunition perhaps? It seems like a much more user friendly design than the C96, yet the C96 was later adapted to the 9mm Luger cartridge and was still being produced well into the 1930's.
This design also seems to be the origin of the detachable magazine used in late production C96's and the Schnellfeuer.
A fine looking piece I must say, beautiful.
Aesthetically that is a fine looking pistol. Of course I fancy mag before the trigger pistols. Beautiful restoration!
I love your channel, and the vast amount of forgotten firearms you showcase is amazing. I do have 1 minor correction though: it's 9x25mm Mauser, not 9x21mm.
I'd been wondering about that, I didn't think there was any such cartridge.
@@davehood2667Cartridges Of The World is an invaluable reference to have in your library, as is Handguns of the World: Military Revolvers and Self Loaders 1870-1945.
another pistol I wish had been developed further or that someone would make with modern materials, calibers, and manufacturing techniques
This is super cool looking
Such an engineering masterpiece
Beautiful pistol. Really. Excellent depth and breadth of knowledge as well, Ian.
Damn, that's a beautiful pistol.
Mauser were such geniuses. This pistol could rival modern pistols.
Absolutely beautiful. It looks like a miniature interwar submachine gun.
Looks way nicer than the original Mauser.
Very interesting piece of history there
Oh, Ian! All those hidden gems that you find.. Every time I think I know something about firearms, you make me realize I really don't know sh**t.. Keep your knowlege pouring over us!
I love this thing so much, the mechanisms are so intriguing and interesting. If only more of these were made.
I love that design. The mechanical internals is cool as shit.
+forgotten weapons i love your videos's i've honestly learned more about guns from you than any where else this is the cool stuff to learn where did the designs we see now originally come from and things like that
That's totally cool, such awsome condition typically Mauser.
The Mauser 06/08 has been my favorite looking pistol ever since I discovered its existence (I even use it in some of my avatars). Next favorite is, of course, the C96. [Wish some company had the balls to make repros of either or both of them].
Mauser's later HSc does that magazine reload/drop slide thing too; there is, as far as I can tell, no other way to get it to close, and it has a magazine safety to boot, so if you lose the magazine you are completely beached.
Absolutely beautiful, thanks for sharing
Thats some serious compact firepower for 1908. Beautiful design. Someone needs to make repro’s ..
Ian I'm sure a man with your extensive knowledge of rare firearms must have an impressive collection. If you were ever so inclined as to produce a video on your personal collection I'd love to see it! Also I feel ya on the budget part.
HFS, this is a vundergun. Why didn't Mauser make any more of these things? I think I'd rather have one of these than the ole C96 Broomhandle. This thing was engineering perfection for it's era, with features so common on firearms made today.
why this thing wasn't adopted by any military? cost? or just a marketing fail like many others at the time?
+marvin b My guess is the Mauser broomhandle was already out there and had already saturated the market for those who were looking to buy and were happy with the 9mm bore. The Americans weren't - they'd had failures to stop with the .38 in the Philippines (enter the .45ACP) - and the British were also wedded to the large bore after similar experiences in India in 1857. The British, in particular, put their pistols through hell (the dust, sand and mud tests), and a revolver of the times was much more likely to sail through those tests and keep on firing. Automatics have come a long way in a hundred years, and I suspect the current state of the art would do much better.
+jsm666 Look at the close tolerances of the flaps to the bolt carrier and you can see how in that configuration a grain of sand could disable it. Design needs a tweak.
Favorite handgun of all time
out of all the rare guns you've shown, I've gadda say, this is the most attractive of the lot
so elegant, beautiful. Just the sounds of it. Or the magasin, Congratulations to the lucky, and properly wealthy owner. I will never forget this rare pistol.
This great flap locked pistol evolved into the Mauser 1912-14 and the rifle Mauser Selbslader that you showed us before. www.forgottenweapons.com/early-automatic-pistols/mauser-191214/ www.forgottenweapons.com/early-semiauto-rifles/mauser-selbstlader/ The use of the clip to lower the slide was a Mauser standard feature from the 1910, 1914 1934 to the HSC. Thanks for your great work.
A very interesting, retro-futuristic pistol. Would probably make a very handy little sub-machinegun, kind of like the Skorpion.
I really like this pistol. Thank you for sharing!
Short-recoil and flapper locked…
That sounds a lot like the rifle Paul Mauser worked on earlier, if I'm not mistaken.
Beautiful refinishing work. I wonder why the 9 x 21mm Mauser pistol cartridge didn't catch on.
That is one beautiful weapon
I need this in my life.
I would love for someone to make a modern copy of this!!