Mauser C96 pistol explained

Dismounting, functioning and markings explained

Field stripping the Mauser C96

- The first four stripping steps

- The takedown latch is of paramount importance

- Dismounting the firing pin in very early models

- The bolt retainer

Advanced dismounting the Mauser C96

- The extractor

- The rear sight blade and latch

- Magazine floorplate plunger and trigger

- Dismounting the lock sub-frame

- Hammer and safety lever

- Sear actuator and sear spring

- Mainspring plunger and rocker coupling

- Mainspring and guides

- When replacing the rocker coupling (tip 1)

- To assemble the barrel group (tip 2)

- To reassemble the action frame and the barrel group (tip 3)

Technical description of the Mauser C96

- The Mauser C96 pistol consists of four main parts

- The barrel and extension

- The magazine well

- When the bolt is drawn rearwards with a empty magazine

- The rear and front sight

- The bolt stop

- The barrel extension

- The bolt

- The receiver

- The lock sub-frame

Operation of the Mauser C96

- A "prop-up" type of locking

- Close-up animated sequence

- Full size animated sequence

- Hammer and sear relation

- Disconnecting work of the forward mainspring plunger

- Locking and unlocking of the bolt

- The bolt's rear travel

- Disconnection in early models

- The ejector

The safety of the Mauser C96

- Long type safety lever on early models

- Late safety of the first type

- Late safety of the second type or "NS" safety

- Hammer-operated safety lever

- Universal safety

- Model 1902 safety prototype

Prototypes and pre-production Models

- A working prototype materialized by the summer of 1894

- German patent (No. 90430)

- Six-shot and a twenty-shot model

- The final stage for mass production

- The spur hammer replaced by a "Cone Hammer"

- The twenty-shot version

- An experimental 6 mm cartridge

- 1896 prototype of a ten-shot carbine

Mauser C96 early Models

- Last minute changes before the mass production launch

- Introduction of the two locking lugs

- Improvement of the lock sub-frame

- The mainspring front plunger

- Minor changes

- From about the serial number 360 onward

Mauser C96 "Cone Hammer" variations

- Modification of the barrel extension

- Cone Hammer 10-shot variations described

- The left rear milled out side panel modified

- Cone Hammer 6-shot variations described

- Cone Hammer 20-shot variations described

- Cone Hammer resold by Westley Richards

- Rear sight with a peep type aperture

Mauser C96 "Large ring Hammer" variations

- At about serial number 15,000, the "Flat side" variation

- Italian Navy contract

- Modification of the trigger and rear sight

- firing pin with a single locking lug

- The "shallow-milled" panel variation

- Large ring "Bolo" 10-shot

- The "Bolo" variation

- The new two-lug firing pin

- Large ring 6-shot "Officer Model"

Mauser C96 "Small ring Hammer" variations

- Small ring Hammer 10-shot

- The improved "NS" safety

- Shorter extractor

- Modification of the barrel extension

- The barrel rifling was changed

- The Mauser banner trademark

- The 9 mm Export

- The "Red Nine" variation

- Small ring Hammer 6-shot

- The reinforced chamber

Post-War 1920 Reworks and 1930 Model

- 1920 Rework 10-shot

- Under the new German Republic of Weimar

- Mauser pistols out of Germany

- French Gendarmerie

- The long barreled "Bolo"

- Post War regular 10-shot production

- Post War special and experimental models

- Early 1930 models

- The new "Universal Safety"

- 1930 model (711) with the frame for the selective fire model

The "Schnellfeuer" Model

- A selective fire carbine prototype

- Joseph Nickl model

- Karl Westinger model

- Technical description of the Westinger model

- Dismounting the Westinger model

How the Mauser C96 "Schnellfeuer" functions

- The lock frame of the "Schnellfeuer"

- How act the selecting-fire lever

- The second sear

- The articulated member of the trigger

- A specific area was milled out in the barrel extension

- To render the full automatic option inoperative for ever

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