Just for fun Finally got a Mauser Broomhandle after many many years

[2400]

Nice pistol, please let us know how it shoots on the range.

 

[mark-hunter]

This is one of iconic pistols from history that I would love to have! Congrats on your acquisition! Good shooting!

 

[Red Leg]

Nice pistol, please let us know how it shoots on the range.

Pretty old thread. I hope he had an opportunity over the last four years.

 

[Bruce]

FANTASTIC and we'll snapped up... Would dearly love to have one myself.

 

[perttime]

On a slightly related note:

...a bit of fun, but the slow motion views of the Blaster (Mauser) are pretty interesting too.

 

[postoak]

You've revived the last thread Jcordell posted in. I hope nothing bad happened to him.

 

[Rob404]

Lets us know how it shoots

 

[Ray B]

My dad had a variation of the broomhandle. ATF referred to it as a Mauser carbine. It looked like a broomhandle with the handle missing, the stock slid into tracks on the underside of the action, the stock having something of a pistol grip. It was 9mm and select fire. I understand it was quite valuable, particularly so since the paramour (aka B.....) that broke up his marriage stole it from him. cest la amore.

 

[WebleyGreene455]

It also can be seen in the original Star Wars movie carried by Luke Skywalker. Disguised a bit but none the less in the movie. I think they are cool.

Harrison Ford carried one as Han Solo in the original movie (and used a second non-firing prop for insert shots when he kills the bounty hunter in the cantina) and it's really hard to see but a few Imperial Officers carried resin casts of them with different dressing and no scopes. The one that Luke had was only in Empire Strikes Back, and it and the two different props Han used in Empire and Return of the Jedi were built off Japanese-made fake guns. And the ones used by Han in The Force Awakens and Solo were built off an airsoft copy of the full-auto machine pistol variant.


(I really like Star Wars and all those awesome old guns they use for props in the movies.)

 

[yumastepside]

Didn't Karamojo Bell carry one with a shoulder stock?

Roger

 

[Jcordell]

Pretty old thread. I hope he had an opportunity over the last four years.

Still here and I did get it out to the range. A few weeks after I purchased it my father passed away unexpectedly so there was a long delay before I finally got around to taking to the range as in almost a couple of years.

I replaced the springs with Wolff springs (to include the magazine spring) and put a box of Prizi 7.63mm through it. It shoots just fine without any hiccups. The ergonomics of the pistol isn't great, but I knew that. I can see that the rifle stock is a must, but so far I haven't found one.

 

[Cam Moon]

Glad to see you're back! Cool firearm for sure!

 

[Jcordell]

Glad to see you're back! Cool firearm for sure!

One of those guns that one owns because they are cool and romantic, but not necessarily practical.

 

[Foxi]

In our country this weapon is called Mauser C (18) 96.
Winston Churchill took it with him to Sudan and the Boer War.
Lenin was enthusiastic about this pistol and promised himself the world revolution with it.
And Schillings, an early explorer in German East Africa fended off Masai attacks.
Member HWL certainly knows much more about it.

 

[Sika98k]

In our country this weapon is called Mauser C (18) 96.
Winston Churchill took it with him to Sudan and the Boer War.
Lenin was enthusiastic about this pistol and promised himself the world revolution with it.
And Schillings, an early explorer in German East Africa fended off Masai attacks.
Member HWL certainly knows much more about it.

didn’t Bell have one of these also ?
Anyway I have as much chance as a snowball in hell of ever owning one of these with our draconian firearms laws in Ireland. But 3 classics I would love to shoot are one of these, a Luger ( got that opportunity in a gun shop in Riga, Latvia) and a Webley Mk6, 455. Ah dream on.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

didn’t Bell have one of these also ?
Anyway I have as much chance as a snowball in hell of ever owning one of these with our draconian firearms laws in Ireland. But 3 classics I would love to shoot are one of these, a Luger ( got that opportunity in a gun shop in Riga, Latvia) and a Webley Mk6, 455. Ah dream on.

If you ever find yourself in eastern Canada I can make the webley happen.

 

[Cam Moon]

If you ever find yourself in eastern Canada I can make the webley happen.

That's what I like about this site!! Very nice of you!

 

[HWL]

In our country this weapon is called Mauser C (18) 96.
Winston Churchill took it with him to Sudan and the Boer War.
Lenin was enthusiastic about this pistol and promised himself the world revolution with it.
And Schillings, an early explorer in German East Africa fended off Masai attacks.
Member HWL certainly knows much more about it.

...not really.

The pistol that destroyed the British Empire....!

This pistol saved Winston Churchills life at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898.

Later on in 1940, he denyed peace with Germany....the beginning of the end.....




HWL

 

[flatwater bill]

May it serve you as well as W.D.M. Bell's Mauser Export model served him at the Turkwel River...thanks for showing it...............FWB

 

[Ridgewalker]

I was in a local gun store with a bud a few months back. They had one including the stock and leather case. I went home dreaming about it. A few days later my bud texted me he couldn’t resist and had returned to the store and bought it! Haven’t had a chance to go shoot it with him yet. Looking forward to it.