damifinowfish
Ultimate Member
There is a member in my club that has/had a Chinese one. It always had problem. The best one was it would go full auto sometimes. Boy that was scarey!
Mauser Broom Handle
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mawkie
C&R Whisperer
I will say that after I installed new springs (Wolff is the way to go, worked perfectly in mine) my C96 has been very reliable. Much more so than my Luger or Lahti, which have that steep grip angle which makes feeding so much more difficult. Years ago I bought a case of Norinco 9mm ball and the C96 loved it. If I went back in time and was serving in the German Army I would have wanted a C96 as my sidearm, no hesitation whatsoever.
You do need stripper clips to load, I've never tried to load the magazine manually and don't think I would want to. And while not as fast on reload as a removable magazine it's quicker than you would think. About the same as using a period speedloader like the British Prideaux for the Webley revolvers. The Steyr Hahn M1911 is the same way. You'd pull your hair out loading w.o. a stripper. That's another pistol that I had to seriously refurb with all new springs and extractor before it was reliable. Like my C96 it was a badly pitted import that was buffed hard and reblued by the importer but I wanted a shooter and for $200 plus about another $50 for extractor and springs I got a nice shooter.
You do need stripper clips to load, I've never tried to load the magazine manually and don't think I would want to. And while not as fast on reload as a removable magazine it's quicker than you would think. About the same as using a period speedloader like the British Prideaux for the Webley revolvers. The Steyr Hahn M1911 is the same way. You'd pull your hair out loading w.o. a stripper. That's another pistol that I had to seriously refurb with all new springs and extractor before it was reliable. Like my C96 it was a badly pitted import that was buffed hard and reblued by the importer but I wanted a shooter and for $200 plus about another $50 for extractor and springs I got a nice shooter.
mawkie
C&R Whisperer
Had to re-cut the sear and hammer notch on my C96 when I first got it because it was sketchy during dry fire testing. I'm glad I didn't test with live ammo 'cause it would have been heart stopping for sure.
Also had to do some minor fitting to the safety to get it to function reliably. That's the one down side to the earlier C96s, the safety design. They later came out with the NS or new safety version (model 711) which ended the safety problems.
There's a nice site with a fantastic timeline of the C96 development and production. You'll be surprised at all the changes and variations that exist in the C96 line.
KMK1862
Ultimate Member
I forgot to add that I wouldn't recommend going to any high powered loads. 115 gr FMJ should be all these pistols need.
mawkie
C&R Whisperer
KP Shooter
Le Flâneur
When I was in China, I noticed that whenever they had one of their Sino-Japanese War Soap Opera's on tv, they were always carrying broomhandles. I didnt realize that so many of them were shipped of to China. Guess you learn something every day
JWBanshee
Active Member
- Jul 1, 2009
- 399
Mawkie,
That looks like the same gun That I am looking at.
JW
That looks like the same gun That I am looking at.
JW
Nemesis
Russian Grizzly Adams
i would love to have that...really would...
hehe, its the Red9 from resident evil =P so it already has a zombie killing pedigree.
