Mauser Machine Pistol

[drine]

Is there such an animal? Looks like a broom handle mauser but is magazine fed. Supposedly full auto capable. An old soldier I knew had quite a few relics and this was one of them. Said the firing pin was broke so it wouldn't work but I do remember it didn't have a bottom, but a long magazine. He's dead and gone now so I don't know where the thing ended up.

[hunter_la5]

http://world.guns.ru/handguns/mauser_c96_712.jpg

here's one. Ohio Ordnance works sells one for $7500

[turbothis]

i can just see a gangsta throw that baby up in the air side ways and let it fly! awsome looking old pistol though....

[cetme]

there a hoot to shoot! Terrific rate of fire.

[nevada]

They were a favorite of the Chinese, schnellfeur I think they were called. Astra made full auto versions, too.

[Norton]

They were a favorite of the Chinese, schnellfeur I think they were called. Astra made full auto versions, too.

Did they ever issue them to German troops in WW 2? I heard that they may have issued some of them to motorcycle dispatch riders in early WW 2. Is any of that true? I did see a photo of a German troop in battledress holding one with the stock attached.

[Rampager]

You mean like this?

[Norton]

Thats It! Are those SS troops?

[Rampager]

They appear to be SS, looks like the SS insignia on the collar of the one holding the K98.

[M1 Tanker]

That is a broomhandle Mauser he is using, and yes those are SS troops

[Perro]

that is a schnellfeuer - or fast fire / rapid fire pistol


google schnellfeuer

you can tell by the magazine coming out the bottom of it
broomhandles had a fixed magwell built into the lower.

same design, but different pistole

[drine]

Thanks as always for the knowledge. This old soldier I spoke of had a Luger, a full length SS leather coat(traded for a bar tab before he left WW2), and also found himself in the PAcific at the end so he had a Japanese rifle and seems a .22 cal training insert for it. Bunches of badges, daggers, and one helment. He had no direct family so there's no telling who wound up with these things. I did get to shoot the luger and I've said before no pistol quite fits my hand as well as that one did.

[Devastator MBT]

I wish they'd put the 1896 Mauser pistol back into production, but in .45 GAP.

[rustypirate]

Looking back through my photos from the Mauser museum, the only things close to that I have are these:

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/4998/p1000163vi4.jpg
Spanish copy of the C96, with a 20 round fixed magazine.

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/6831/83.jpg
Detachable 40 round magazine carbine modified C96 with handguard at the front.

[drine]

Exactly like a broom handle mauser only a detachable magazine.

[GearShanty]

There was a Clint Eastwood western on TV a month or two ago. He had one of those autopistols in a few scenes.

Sorry, I can remember which movie.

[k98k792]

Joe Kidd

[GearShanty]

Joe Kidd

and THAT is why you're an Admin.

Thanks. I actually came back to the computer hoping someone would post that. It's been driving me crazy.

[97th Signalman]

Here are links to C-96 sites with info on the Schnellfeuer version of the Mauser pistol.

http://www.gunsworld.com/mauser/c96m712_us.htm

http://world.guns.ru/handguns/hg90-e.htm

http://www.northwest-denture.com/mauser1896/

[drine]

Thanks Signalman.

[97th Signalman]

Thanks Signalman.

You are welcome. I have a C-96 but it's not a schellfeuer. At the price of 7.63 Mauser pistol ammo I have little interest in anything that goes through ammo that fast.

Here is mine: