Mauser C96

it went through the watermelon Hickok 45 what's what I have broom-handle Mauser can you believe it the c96 it only took about five thousand requests and ten years for us to go ahead and get one we want to get right on that didn't want to put it off is that a pretty firearm or what huh let's put the slide down first you got to work the hammer oh I forgot got a touch down Oh magazine follower there we go that's what it looks like when you're about to fire it except this empty right now c96 first time I've ever fired one was this week and thought I'd bring you along and tell you a little bit about it in case you don't know everything about it I certainly know but we're gonna show and guess what this one is a vet bring back brought back from World War two by a veteran cool and in what is even cooler is he still alive and he is probably watching this okay his son lent this to us so this is really cool so we're gonna enjoy shooting this some talking about it and letting you join us here at the range so so before we start though again check the description and if you're not a member of the NRA please consider joining there you get a discount okay go to the link a [ __ ] 45 link and it helps us and it helps the NRA more importantly okay the gun rights movement and then also don't forget Bud's gun shop this did not come from buds but you know many of our firearms do and we appreciate Bud's gun shop calm for all the help they they give us so please support the people that support us we appreciate it let's go up here and take a look at this thing it's what you could call an antique okay is an an antique if it's a hundred years old this is considered to be to have been made manufactured but somewhere between 1911 and nine 18:15 this particular firearm I know what you're thinking well don't you know the serial number yeah but a lot of the records were destroyed after World War two when the Oberndorf factory was destroyed and all the records and all that was destroyed so a lot of a lot of this is kind of hit miss on these they know that ballpark on a lot of them and I looked it up and as best I can see from my research is you know that's the time frame plus all the pieces of it are are indicative that it was a wartime commercial model okay they classify them but a pre-war commercial wartime commercial and some other classifications all that and you tell by the hammer whether the hole is small or large well it has the little thingy there on the hammer you got a the safety the type of safety and in the characteristics of it in serial number two so from all that my research tells me that's when it was made to in 1911 1915 and it's a wartime commercial model all right and most of these were Believe It or Not you may have you've seen these of course you may have the impression that wow this this this firearm this old military firearm was used in you know by so many armies but it really was not it was used by a lot of armies but not as a primary adoption so mouths were sold them here and there around the globe various contracts and different things but the biggest market was commercial actually and the lot em were sold in Britain Britain off British officers loved them a lot of them went there early and so you're liable to see them in any historical movie benefits historically accurate you're just liable to see them anywhere in fact I believe Han Solo had one of these didn't he doesn't he when you watch Star Wars so basically that's what it is and then they dressed it up a little bit so it's it's a Nikon ik piece of hardware no doubt about it just like the Colt single-action army the the aka the ar-15 I guess what else could you say even the Glock I guess you know 1911 you know firearms that all you do is the profile of it and you know what it is yeah c96 no question about that now you you see different variants of it there a lot of variants they made especially early on as I understand you know 20 round mags 10 round mags this is eight six round mags different length barrels just different all kinds of configurations of the thing this as I've read was kind of what it's settled into though about this time period was this was the one that Mauser you know was making pretty much and then you know they were actually used in the military you know as well you know German military you've seen them in movies you've seen them everywhere they are a bit quirky they're a bit quirky so we may have some trouble with it it's been pretty reliable have been shooting it son let me show you this before we get too far afield again a federal doesn't load anything for this it's the C 7.6 3 by 25 millimeter interesting a little round pretty hot little round and so we appreciate all that federal does for us but today they couldn't join the party that's okay they're almost always you know at the party but so we've got some ppyou here we're using and you know so far it's done okay look at this holster though I was gonna wear it you know but this leather is so old and and I just one of the straps here you know it's just it's not really you know tie it's kind of loose I didn't want to damage this stuff is ancient even has a date on it 1916 okay Berlin Berlin it's either an inn or m39 I think it says there so pretty cool has a little cleaning rod there it's nifty so you put that on your belt and what is that you ask now a lot of you already know right it's pretty funny this is part of the reason the Chinese called this the box cannon you know it's calm or Connelly known as a broom handle because the handle I guess looks a little bit like a broom handle doesn't to me really but that's that's what they call it so we know it's clear I shot all 80 rounds it's a little quirky here with a hammer I'll show you getting the slide down and everything and be a little tricky so let's see slide hammer has to be down believe me put it back in the box excuse me holster this is a Fred Flintstone holster house except is to be made out of rocker in it there you go how's that there's your gun so then you put it in a holster and there you go that's it don't strap it in to serve it that's it and put it on your belt and you're already a big eight round magazine at least on this one okay so that's interesting now you might ask why is there a wooden holster most of you probably already know there's a wooden holster because if you're shooting long range out like a thousand metres I think it's got that on the 800 yes the helsing on the site there of course that would be useful in it well maybe you need to well you well you couldn't keep cigars in there too well if you're gonna have a firearm in there but you might want to put a stock on here and turn it into an SBR look at that pow pow how's that for cool so now you have a carbine you could say okay or you could say you have a carbine right depending on how you say that but that's what that was about now that's pretty cool that's not like a little AR 7 in that the survival rifle we did just uh 100 years earlier version of it all right so we'll shoot it both ways here a little bit we don't want to overshoot it whatever that means well shoot it too much I mean it's really old and it's really special the cool thing about this if I can remember a viewer here locally national contacted me it's been months and months ago before Christmas I think and said he had one of these we could use and borrow sometimes yeah we'd like to do it sometime we just couldn't get around to it I saved his information I finally got back to him two or three times we exchanged messages and and the father we just set a date so look we're never going to get to if we don't just set a date so we look on this weekend we'll hook up and we'll do that on it but I told him right away he said his father brought it back from the World War two are you sure you want to lend that to us because you know anything could happen you know house fire you know theft wouldn't be easy lots of security and save some cameras and all that but still if there was ever some catastrophe I always throw it you know what's going to happen well I've got somebody's borrowed special firearm so I'm always paranoid about that I never have liked to borrow machinery from people because you know sure enough if it's ever going to break they're gonna break the day I'm using it so I've always been reluctant on that lawn mower or whatever it was but anyway he really wanted us to do it and he was really adamant about it and you know for the just to put it in a video that a lot of people are going to see his father you know brought this back from World War two and as I said he's still alive and I said you mind if we mention his name does that matter I mean I don't know if there's any reason why we wouldn't I thought why not and he said yeah sure go ahead and so his name is James G Dean James Dean James G Dean she's not the movie star and and he was stationed gosh I think he said he was North Africa first I'm not sure where all he was but he was he's 95 years old right now and he's in pretty good health he's in a wheelchair but he's in pretty good health his mind is clear and everything and and if you're watching James we appreciate you allowing us to borrow this and I think you probably will be watching this maybe not today but tomorrow or some other time right because once something's on YouTube you can watch it anytime all right pretty amazing and if it gets boring James mr. Dean I should be probably saying just click out because that's what a lot of people do I get the rambling not shooting enough they click away and go look at some cartoons or something you can do this but anyway we appreciate you going over there and helping to preserve freedom we really do and the people like you my dad was over there and yes so many men and women a few women too so we appreciate want to thank you for that and then thank you for allowing us to shoot this and thanks for bringing it back your son says you back your 1911 you're able to do that I think and even a po8 so that's really cool anyway mr. Dean you can write a comment I get this wrong but he was involved in forward observation missions and running sorties flying I guess smaller airplanes and their job was to to just scout kind of and see where the enemy is and and you know help align the artillery targets so they would be behind the lines in a field somewhere I guess around where artillery is and and they would fly out it's almost treetop level 3 500 feet or whatever and it's to try to remain anonymous as much as possible and not get shot down by by one of these you know a rifle even and they would kind of give the coordinates of where the enemy is and he flew I think sunset 156 of those missions he lost one crewman he lost one airplane in those missions and got some medals and everything so you know great fellow apparently and we appreciate the you know all that that he did that you did mr. Dean so anyway we're we're especially happy to have this firearm and I'm going to load while I'm talking here because I couldn't I can talk all day you know that so this is really neat it came to you know is i have my import markings or anything and as his son said he was in a sea he was a battalion adjunct I guess near the end of the war and and whatever the all that encompasses and so maybe in the transition and coming back and forth or whatever so he was required I think he said almost to keep his 1911 he carried and keep it with him and bring it back and have it and he was also able to bring some other firearms back and other memorabilia so so like I said he has these things back and not everybody could get that done I know my dad wanted to bring his 1911 home but depending on what you were doing and everything I guess it pin it on that so that's cool let me load it now the firearm is I say it's quirky and one of the reasons there's not a lot of replicas of it being made and and in companies today are not building this gun instead of Glocks in 1911 s and M in peace is it the feeding system is complicated and it's difficult to be really safe with it so I have to be very careful and I'm a [ __ ] it back let me show you what I'm talking about you got a to get that well you can punch it and it does ok and then then it catches on the magazine follower of course but to get the safety to engage like let's say it we're loaded right now here's the safety I can't engage in safety unless I pull the hammer back a little bit more then it will work you know so it's kind of an awkward animal to work with you just can't put can't just put the safety on now you can get it on once you get it on and say I have a round in the chamber the trigger won't pull and then I can off the safety off and fire it so for the first seven eight rounds or however many it holds you know this one holds eight then yeah not bad but then in terms of reloading it and this to operating it quickly the ergonomics of it it's just not quite a 1911 you know just put it that way all right let's load it I'll pull this all way back it catches on the hammer now I'm just and I can't put the safety on hell is that I'm gonna reload this firearm and I cannot have the safety on okay so the safety is usual the most important safety is your brain and I'm gonna try a stripper clip these sometimes they work pretty well one good time it's kind of there we go kind of use your muscles to get it in there okay so he gave me those three stripper clips with it alright now you just have to kind of push it forward and there it goes it's hot so let's see we've had a few malfunctions that's mainly been on the last round well [ __ ] on the target of here put a couple it shoots a little bit to the right it's been my determination I'm gonna hold right in that red and see if it seems to do that I'm not shot on paper yet right now yeah maybe it does maybe dozens try a stop sign now let's hold right in the middle okay it's not too much to the right that's for sure got a light trigger I didn't mean to fire that quickly there we go malfunction on the last round we've been getting a little bit of that but see if I squeeze him back down in there get him back in while the enemy is advancing now it's empty so just on the last round we've had a few issues could be the springs getting weak I don't know why it's only 100 years old so that's what you get right uh so again broom handle that's why it's called that it's featured in a lot of movies you know Han Solo's what a heavy blaster whatever they called it was that and of course the real reason I wanted to use it because I spent a lot of time playing Resident Evil 4 and it's just just a cool gun you know I played that game probably 10 hours a day you know oh gosh where else Western is Joe Kidd Big Jake you know it's just it's just an interesting fireman think about if you're gonna and they do that law obviously in movies right they like to have a cool firearm it doesn't matter if it's the most appropriate for the time sometimes but this of course goes off the scale in terms of looks you know cool factor you know it's just a really cool firearm it's so different so different you got a fixed magazine here and I haven't gotten into the specifics of it but it's a fixed magazine and they were made in different variants the whole different amounts of ammo and what else about it it's it's like a little rifle like John was saying yeah you got your bolt you don't really have a slide that moves on your bolt works you've got a rifle sight it looks like kind of funny and it's it's not the best farm to field-strip I'll probably do it here for you just because I know you like to see me fumble around we probably ought to go ahead and do it let's use this shoots a few more first though okay just yes I don't get it back together okay I got to pull out all the way back it hooked on the hammer again this is seven six three bye bye twenty five-millimeter this ammo is it's a it's considered a hot little round and until whoops 1935 okay I'll see that and we'll lose that until 1935 it was uh it was kind of the hottest pistol round until you know 357 Magnum came out so I'll push it forward see how she does I'll put the safety on look forgot to pull that back put the safety on now it won't fire I'll take the safety off as I'm doing that I'll find some ears to stick in my ears oh let's smoke a little pot here yeah I bet Mauser didn't realize this was going to be so good for that we're shooting two leaders or Cowboys you know what I know what you're thinking is he ever gonna shoot the gong well let's try to try again huh I thought it was pretty good let off let me see everybody's I'll get this yeah while I'm thinking about it you know probably should break it down for you before I forget right so this is I like I said it's a little bit of a complex mechanism and that's the reason it's not used today or you know reproduced it's not the most popular carry gun out there or anything like that and we got of course the you know g.o 9018 plugs bother me here somebody out here we thought that might be appropriate use about the same time right get my screwdriver he's got 1911 out here I would rather have the 1911 I'll tell you what if I was in battle back in 1915 this time period so we'll see how this goes just to show you how it looks and works and I don't want to shoot it too much like I said although the owner mr. Danes son so he gets it out every now and shoots it he went for a period of about 20 years where he said he'd just stayed locked up never touched it and that kind of thing but but he says he shoots it some but you know something this old you never know when something's going to finally break okay first thing you do obviously make sure it's not loaded and then you take the plate off the four plate off of the magazine here and I notice it's getting some age on it yeah yeah yes it's a little like a leader bTW wouldn't take a whole lot of hard yeast for that to break right there pull out the spring follower okay and then you go back here and you push up on this and I forgetting something I don't think so cool Oh touching the trigger here wonder why that was doing that okay yeah there we go let's try and go to wrong way with it and almost forgot okay then that just slides off so that's pretty easy cleaning there okay now here's where you gotta watch it I'm gonna try not to lose any parts from the mecca notes here trigger mechanism everything a sear hammer and you grab this and just pop that off okay a little trouble got the sear out of the slot there earlier and they got ever get back the hammer Woodcock and the locking the bolt comes out like that alright and you find just that screwdriver yes this will do it and you take the firing pin out back here you push it on that go to quarter turn that comes out then do I get for the bolt lock out of their mold block okay so to do that you just push on it and jiggle it a little bit hold your mouth right and it might come out got spring around there we go and then pull out the bolt there you go you got pretty good access to the you know the barrel and everything from the rear you can clean her up there so it's pretty neat and then you've got your your spring in there you can take out or not and you can clean inside that doesn't matter that comes out so all that does pretty accessible now that to that extent and there you have it you know that's as far down as I'm going with it I'm not going to take the sea route any of that I just hope I haven't let myself in Dutch again so let's put this back in and there's your extractor you generally don't have to take it down much for like you know what take the extractor off probably and that sort of thing slide the bolt back in and in order to get the bolt lock back in there you have to put a screwdriver a flat nose screwdriver or something on this got a bigger screwdriver there we go go down far enough and then work in the block there I used too big a screwdriver I think I got it yeah yeah yeah believe it's fine okay and then you put your firing pin in it just goes in one way there you got a little and then you do just the opposite order turn to the counterclockwise okay no that should work all right then you put the locking block I think that is back on I just wanted to learn all this because I never know I might want to build one of these for myself my skills no no bow you know I am bound erease I might just make one of these I kind of remember just from taking this one apart a few times how to do it okay kind of right there that sort of snaps ah into place and I don't you get off on me there now about that okay if you're really lucky this will slide right back on everything will go back together kind of like the way it was yeah this the only place I get hung up a little bit let's see push up on that a little bit some tips and I discovered that a little pressure if I'm a piece of wood helps immensely right there this it's not likely do any damage just wood there we go wood on metal okay I believe that's got it except for the magazine and make sure it's okay she seems okay yeah so that's kind of how they look inside let's put the magazine follow and spring back in yeah John I think we can build one of these maybe next weekend all right I'm gonna get this one back to the owner really soon I don't like to have heirlooms like this too long at all very reluctant borrow on something like this this uh mr. Dean son must just not really know me very well to trust me with something like this right no he's a really good guy and I would guess his father really is as well in addition to to having served so valiantly in World War two pretty cool we're we're honored to fire this thing this is so so special so we'll shoot a couple more times and let's let's load it again okay so pull the bolt back let's see if the numbskull got it back together correctly here did I say I would not want to have one of these have to carry one of these into combat you know I really would not they're rather awkward oh you know what I'm going to hit the gong that just bothers me I don't know whether I was going high or something that's right hold on the bottom of it I think I heard that one there we go yeah I see it moving it's a hot little round without a bow let's try the red plate what the heck let's try I'm gonna try that Turkey up there all right it's worthy of Turkey killing oh look at here we got two liters of stuff and we had a malfunction on the last round again I'll uh I don't know if I'm lip I don't think I'm limp resting I had two hands on it I'm gonna hold right until that stop sign again I think it goes just a hair to the right it's not much it's not much boy that thing oh you know what I haven't shot him I shot it with this note let's shoot it with this one time how's that others put these in my hand here it's cool this is kind of a collector's gun of course it's not something you're going to buy to shoot it you know it just isn't I don't think that you if you want to shoot it a lot because they are fairly valuable and again they're kind of fragile in a way so you'd probably want to just choose occasionally you know it's just the collectors you know firearm more or less so I'll shoot maybe one more time here let me pull it back like that okay think I didn't have the bolt back all the way caught by the hammer there like you see okay yet interestingly enough I don't know if I mentioned this that Paul Mauser did not really design this some people that worked for him did was a five-year halt and his brothers or cohorts or somebody and they kind of kept it a secret and and Mauser didn't really like it that much at all but he saw the financial potential in it and agreed to produce it and I think he what he called mousers military pistol I think at first hoping he'd get some big military contracts with it and that didn't quite happen although he sold some up to the military some of y'all made any more about that but there's so much I mean about this firearm that is out there all the variants wars around the world where it was used various engagements movies okay alright what was I going to shoot I forgot now well let's just got the target that's so let's go back over there and show you a couple things oh I think what I was gonna do get that safety on get that safety on there you got to watch me I get the talking yeah I forget now that safety is engaged really really well I've got to push forward I'll keep it downrange but I'll put the sock on that's what I was going to do there we go short-term memory loss all right what's that hold the top of it for no no no okay there we go let's see if I can shoot it any better I'll go for the gong again we got to keep your thumb out you got to watch your knuckle there it that hammer comes back in hich forgot about that but I was reminded quickly let's see I've hit the gong I'm gonna try a ram okay I'm not sure where it's going I'm gonna move over here closer I don't want to finish on a Miss how about a cowboy who has never been shot and that's empty how's that for a rig that is uh as an interesting looking firearm no doubt about it let's close that bolt again I so awkward you need three hands to manipulate this thing get it off the hammer it's just not easy and get it off the follower there we go so just take a look at that I mean is that beautiful or what yeah I mean it kind of is in a historical sense that the interesting firearm I've seen these my whole life pictures at least and had never fired one now I'm an expert right yeah yeah really did you fare what that hole was for better back up the video rewind you'll figure it out that that's pretty neat that really is okay anything else that I know that I didn't tell you about oh yeah these things were made all around the world it wasn't just Mauser of course and China and Spain made a ton of them as I understand maybe you know mouths are made around in me and they think of them and they also think that possibly China and Spain made that meaning that were unlicensed can you imagine somebody stealing a patent and then just copying something like that but that's that's what they did and I think China I read were the only country rule that actually adopted it as their sidearm you know so finally may know more about that but there were lots of may that's why you see a lot of them a lot of them are not in great shape this one appears to maybe have the original finish on it it actually is in good condition just everything about it so but that's only part of the value in this one of course right I mean can you imagine I've told him that you know that he is so lucky not only have his father still living and his father's 95 but to have these firearms he brought back that is just really neat from World War two that is just extremely special isn't it so the old mauser c96 it's a little bit quirky you might have been able to tell when I took it apart there how the action is and you know just the operation of it and of course I make my awkwardness makes something look even more awkward and quirky right but it really is kind of a quirky thing you I would not want to have to go to battle with it today again though go back to when this was designed 1895 96 1896 there for some of you 1996 is a long time ago you might not even been born in 1996 but let's go back to 1896 and a semi-automatic pistol Wow this has been what would have been like today I don't know we almost can't comprehend what it would be like today think about the most advanced firearm you can think of it's on the market today or that's out there small arm you know a semi-automatic that holds 208 or somehow being held 20 the early ones there were a few fully auto ones they didn't work out so well as I understand so for the times you know I mean you think about it in 1896 seven a lot of people still packing a Colt single-action army and thinking that was probably the best they could carry and actually I think I would rather carry it than this maybe hey but yeah so 1896 do I need to tell you that was a long time ago anyway the c96 I'll quit rambling what else was I going to tell you about it that's just again if I'm going to battle tomorrow it's gonna be with this not this but but it's it's a very interesting and it's it's fun to learn about it and especially one that's this the special so hope you can appreciate how cool that is that the owner really is 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Channel: hickok45

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Keywords: Mauser, C96, C-96, C-96 Mauser, Mauser C-96, 7.63, 7.63X25mm, Paul Mauser, Germany, WWI, WWII, WWII vet, veteran, stock holster, detachable stock

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Length: 37min 35sec (2255 seconds)

Published: Sat May 20 2017

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[u/tkmayhem]

Everytime I see this guy's videos it makes me want to get into shooting. I really love how he appreciates the history behind each firearm he demonstrates.

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[u/CameronHaug]

Han shot first.