The C96 is just an overall beautiful pistol in every configuration, a marvelous showcase of engineering

The sheer optimism of a 1000m sight on a pistol boggles the mind.

@jakekelsey8038

Ай бұрын

Ok frodo 😂

@Noise-Bomb

Ай бұрын

@@jakekelsey8038 damn, I did the same mistake before. Thanks for pointing it out^^

@quentintin1

Ай бұрын

ideas about range were getting out of hand at the time between volley sights, standard sights adjustable to 2km and pistols up to 100m, people had some weird ideas about the firing ranges of the next big war tho for pistols like these, it made some sense as you could buy them with attachment for a stock, where hitting at 100 was a more realistic proposition, but still, why make it with that sight and no stock slot?

@maximus9812

Ай бұрын

I think it was just a carryover from rifles of the time. On rifles those long range settings were intended for mass indirect fire, so it made a bit more sense.

@andyleighton6969

Ай бұрын

@@quentintin1 When Gun Jesus McCollum tried that out - essentially trying to use a stock mounted pistol as a carbine he found it simply didn't work. What it DID do was make you significantly more accurate at pistol rage, out to 20yards type distances where a hand held hit would be possible but more luck than anything else.

‘That my friend is a broom handled Mauser….’ - Max Bygraves, Bolton, circa 2001 😂

Finally, a video on this version of the C96! Thank you Jonathan!

Over 300K subscribers! Thats exciting. Always good to see C96 variants. For those who believe looking cool is more important than capacity, this is your pistol. That one in particular looks lovely.

6 rounds. For when you want a revolver’s ergonomics and capacity with a crisp semi-auto single action trigger pull. Definitely would be a cool detective pistol for the interwar noir era, though there’s tons of semi-autos at that point which are simply more practical.

Always a pleasure to see Jonathan Ferguson, keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries museum in Leeds.

@Kremit_the_Forg

Ай бұрын

Do you mean Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK, which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history?

I'll be honest and say I've not seen that variant before, it puts me in mind of the Mannlicher 1903 somewhat. I see some people are mentioning where they first saw the C96 - well I always remember one being used by Don Stroud's henchman/mercenary character in the Eastwood film "Joe Kidd".

The c96 MopStick

@FEEDMEKITTENS

Ай бұрын

The C96 Swiffer

@samholdsworth420

Ай бұрын

C96 chopstick 🥢

it's adorable. thanks for taking about this model

A recognizable early semiautomatic pistol that has appearances in popular culture as well as in war. Winston Churchill used one before back in his youth overseas in his military service. Has appeared in video games from WW2 shooters to the fallout 3 game to steam punk universes like Bioshock, to even in Star Wars. I remember seeing it in use on Deadliest Warrior in a test both in semiautomatic and in fully automatic with 20 rounds and holster shoulder stock. Showing it does have an incredible rate of fire of 1000 rounds per minute. And someone should inform Jonathan of interesting news of firearms that happened yesterday. The personal engraved M1911 pistol of one of America’s most infamous gangsters, Al Capone, is up for auction. Estimated to be in value of 2-3 million dollars. That would be an amazing piece for a museum or a collector.

Hi, visited the armouries last week a school class was going thru and I was surprised by how well they were enjoying it and thank goodnes😮s you haven't succumbed to "these are all bad things "type of displays,here in Glasgow at Kelvin grove museum they have a katana next to a spoon stating the obvious,well done all. the whole docks area is lovely ❤all the best from sunny Troon 😊

The c96 6 shot looks like some kind of fallout pistol.

@MrSharpClaw

Ай бұрын

Fallouts "chinese pistol" is basically a c96.

@Marcel_Germann

Ай бұрын

@@MrSharpClaw Yes, because the Chinese were always fond of the C96. They even manufactured them locally and even in other calibers like .45 ACP (Shanxi Type 17). The regular C96 was only available in 7.63mm Mauser and in 9mm Luger. Russians were also fond of "comrade Mauser". kzread.info/dash/bejne/iJhk05p-fcvXgrw.html

Wow I always thought Bolo was referencing the machete sword thing. Today I learned thank you

Do we know - did Churchill have a 6 or 10 shot? I would presume 10-shot, otherwise history might have been different, after Omdurman!

@howardmaryon

Ай бұрын

“Did I shoot 10 shots or nine?”

@jonathanferguson1211

Ай бұрын

He owned three ten shot pistols.

Broomhandle? Think “whisk broom.”

Another informative and interesting video review. Thank you 👍🏾

A side by side size comparison with a Webley revolver would be interesting, also weight comparison.

A lovey gun, a collector's wish, and rightfuly so.

Last time I was this early, the Tower of London was getting "remodeled" with Caen stone. '(;

I never associate this gun with Han solo, first time I ever saw it on film was weirdly in a John Wayne western called "Big Jake" not a bad film heavy on the nepotism tho his son plays a character who uses one and installs a spring in the bottom of the holster to make it easier to draw which i always thought was amusing, just bouncing out every time he reholstered.

@jonathanferguson1211

Ай бұрын

How interesting! Thanks, I will have to check that out. I knew about Joe Kidd but not this.

Looks nice!

All shot with a rack of SMLE's in the background. That's a flex.

Jonathon sir, you are a treasure.

I like this channel, but I always finish watching with a bad taste in my mouth that individual collectors in UK can't enjoy weapons like these.

Honest curiosity; just exactly how many different guns do you have there?! 😅 Cheers for an interesting video :)

@abnurtharn2927

Ай бұрын

@ralach According to their website, "several thousands". Honestly, I don´t think they know how many they have 😅

@jonathanferguson1211

Ай бұрын

About 27,100 :)

@Detaleader

Ай бұрын

​@@jonathanferguson1211Does this include the ones in the tower with the staircase? 😮

@jonathanferguson1211

29 күн бұрын

@@Detaleader Yes, and those on loan around the world.

I definitely like the look of this one more compared to the typical one

Why- yes, having that magazine ahead of the trigger _does_ make every other pistol a bullpup including the 1911!

@FindecanorNotGmail

Ай бұрын

Wouldn't a "bullpup pistol" have the magazine _behind_ the grip?

@samholdsworth420

Ай бұрын

Isn't the action technically in line on a 1911? Not quite a bull pup

@samholdsworth420

Ай бұрын

@@FindecanorNotGmail your comment disappeared lol

@biddinge8898

Ай бұрын

The Uzi is now a bullpup smg along with the sten.

@jonathanferguson1211

Ай бұрын

Which is why my book definition involves more than 50% of the firing hand "grasping area" being behind the breech face. Otherwise you end up with a lot of bullpups that aren't.

Had not seen a 6 round version of this weapon and it really does look good to me. sm

The C96 pistols seem to be hard to place in time for non gun/history folk. I remember watching Penny Dreadful with a mate who's neither & he was amazed that "an automatic pistol" turned up in "Victorian times". While the C96 was about 5 years too early in the series; set in 1880/81, the proprietor of the gun shop did say it was a prototype. My mate is used to me being a bit of a pedant when watching historical stuff so wondered why I hadn't burst into expletives at its showing. Must've been an exciting time with the world & firearms changing at an alarming rate.

@sike3000

Ай бұрын

i think you mean 1890/91

@Getpojke

Ай бұрын

@@sike3000 😆Yes I very much did! Cheers for pointing out my mistype. Will go change that.

@sike3000

Ай бұрын

@@Getpojke yeah i read it twice before i noticed

@cyan_oxy6734

Ай бұрын

Maybe thinking in terms of the Anglo view to think of this time as the "Victorian era" is a bit limiting. From the German and point of view the mid 19th century was one of intense civil unrest and with many nationalist moments wanting to found nation states in many central European countries. After at first refusing to be German Kaiser the Prussians later led the German states in a coalition in the unification wars against Denmark, France and Austria and won all of those wars ins small part to a technological advantage over the opponents. The German empire was founded in 1871 and right when the industrialization and metallurgy was quite advanced so everyone in Europe would get busy improving their firearms as Germany steamrolling everyone was fresh in their memory. Britain was busy messing about with their navy and enslaving half the world so they kinda missed the boat on the whole "building good guns thing" and arguably haven't caught up to this day.

@jonathanferguson1211

Ай бұрын

I loved Penny Dreadful so I gave it a pass on the far-too-early C96.

perfectly balanced cut, as all things should be

@samholdsworth420

Ай бұрын

Less bullets equals less balanced 😂

I always thought the 'bolo' referred to a knife, typically seen in the Philippines. Didn't the US army have an experimental bayonet in the 1870s called a bolo bayonet?

@lesjames5191

29 күн бұрын

I have a Spanish bolo bayonet.

when i saw two Mausers i had hoped to see the Akimbo reload from Hunt Showdown

Beautiful weapon.

I know it's a naval weapon technically. But can you please cover the Mark 19. It's was so instrumental in Afghanistan. I may have first hand experience....

@jonathanferguson1211

Ай бұрын

Being naval definitely doesn't stop us covering a weapon :) What did you think of it in service?

@liquidoxygenbar7671

Ай бұрын

@jonathanferguson1211 haha imagine John actually replying to me! I appreciate the effort! 👌

@liquidoxygenbar7671

Ай бұрын

@jonathanferguson1211 man I really wish you were him, I have so much to say.

@liquidoxygenbar7671

Ай бұрын

@@jonathanferguson1211 why does the internet have to suck this way?

"Silence, orators! Your word now tovarish Mauser!" from poem Left March by Vladimir Mayakovsky

@jonathanferguson1211

Ай бұрын

Referring, as you may know, to ‘Deputy Regional Commisar of Justice’ Pyotr Yermakov.

@F1ghteR41

Ай бұрын

@@jonathanferguson1211 Never thought of you as a conossieur of Mayakovsky. 😊

@jonathanferguson1211

29 күн бұрын

@@F1ghteR41 I'm not, admittedly, but I came across it while researching my C96 book :)

@F1ghteR41

28 күн бұрын

@@jonathanferguson1211 I've tried to dig it a bit further, and it seems to be a much later association. The poem was first read in December 1918, but Yermakov's role in the fate of the Romanov's family (and really any notable exploits at all) weren't publicized until much later, and his sidearm during the Civil war was likely the Nagant revolver, per the limited sources available to us on the matter. There's a highly tendentious book ("Маузер Ермакова: цареубийца Пётр Ермаков: между словом и забвением" by Yu. A. Zhuk, it's even on Google Books) about Yermakov which discusses this matter in more detail.

would have been nice to have the terms as described by mauser written out in the video

Are you guys familiar with the newspaper cartoon *Broom-Hilda* ? I always think of the character when people talk about the broom-handle pistol. Hahaha! (The character name is obviously based on Brynhilda , the valkyrie from germanic mythology)

A play list of famous peoples guns, (Sir WC) would be interesting, or the Kings STEN.

C96 Box Cannon. This pistol is iconic in China. Apparently if you hold it sideways, you can better control the recoil if you try to rapid fire it.

It's not too bad a size.

how broomhandly where the broomhandles did it just look like one or did they actually draft a broom making company for the woodwork

I'm surprised it wasn't nicknamed the Kurtz

Is that a cutaway Lee Enfield in the background?

@jonathanferguson1211

Ай бұрын

It is. We have various different cutaway Lees.

It's nice, but it's no WAUSER BROWNINGS BREVETE BREVETE BREVETE.

Quite a svelte c96

I played a character in Call of Cthulhu who used one of these lol

I guess they had jurisdictions that didn't like "high capacity magazines" back in the day.

Mom can we have Mauser C96? No we have Mauser C96 at home Mauser C96 at home:

Just needs a snappy nickname now. The red 6? The dustpan handle?

Dual dolches?

5:30 Well, a lot of things were, since before WW1 C96 was among the pistols recommended for purchase by the Russian officers, and that's not to mention both 7.63 and 9 mm versions captured from the Germans during the war. The variant that got the association with the Soviet Russia is claimed to have been a part of an early 1920s contract that ordered it like that. 10:59 With such prices I wonder if there are fakes on the market. 17:29 If not for technical issues, it would be great.

@zoiders

Ай бұрын

The "Bolo" variant dates back to the Russian revolution. Not the 1920s.

@zoiders

Ай бұрын

The "Bolo" Mauser dates back to the Russian Revolution. Not the 1920s.

@jonathanferguson1211

Ай бұрын

@@zoiders As a variant it actually pre-dates the 'Bolo' nickname - the short-frame, short-barrel pistols were on in 1902. However, as far as I know the variant wasn't available in quantity or necessarily associated with Bolsheviks until the 1940s when collectors (probably) coined the nickname reference the pistol variant. So it's not necessarily incorrect to reference the 1920s since this is when both variant and 'Bolo' nickname start to make sense. But we should be clear that no-one was calling compact C96s "Bolos" until the 1940s.

@F1ghteR41

Ай бұрын

@@zoiders Among the pistols with known Russian Civil War provenance there are ones with longer barrels & the characteristic 'broom' handles. More significantly, you must've missed the fact that during the 1917 Russian revolution Russia was at war with the Germany, and during most of the Civil war relations between the countries were rather strained.

So it's a SMBH, Short Magazine BroomHandle?

How would you reload a 20 rnd C96? Would it have been with 2 x 10 rnd stripper clips or did Mauser offer a 20 rnd stripper clip?

@jonathanferguson1211

Ай бұрын

2x 10rd clips. There's no record of a 20 rd clip and of course you can easily strip two 10rd clips into a 20rd gun, whereas stripping 6 rounds into a 10rd gun from a 10rd clip would have been tricky, hence special 6d clips.

@il6993

Ай бұрын

@@jonathanferguson1211 Ah ok. It must’ve been a pain to load that 20 rnder As I would assume that the bolt would slam forward after the first clip is ejected. Then you have to bring the bolt back and hold it while you insert the next clip. Then you have to deal with the additional spring pressure when thumbing in the next 10 rounds…

@jonathanferguson1211

29 күн бұрын

@@il6993 It would - you'd have to manually hold it open to accept the second clip

Broom handles allways reminds me of Riley Ace of Spies tv drama oh and Han Solo

J. M. Browning's model of 1900, designed in 1896, with a removable 7 shot magazine, in .32" ACP/7.65x17SR. The first semi-auto pistol with a slide. Obviously the 7.63mm Mauser was a far more powerful round but the Browning was smaller & lighter - &, I suspect, a lot cheaper.

Mini broomhandle... so a feather duster handle?

So we have garand thumb, now we need a gun tuber called broom handle finger.

I guess the only real advantages compared to a revolver are the lighter trigger (potentially) and an easier reload, if you have the clips. But the fact that even the Nagant has more ammo capacity makes this pretty underwhelming.

@jonathanferguson1211

Ай бұрын

Not potentially - any self-loader has a better trigger than any 'double-action' revolver.

@ZGryphon

Ай бұрын

@@jonathanferguson1211 And _especially_ a Nagant. :)

The gloves are on

Bolo, the Philippine machete. Could it be they were referencing cutting people down like a sweeping blade through underbrush?

@jonathanferguson1211

Ай бұрын

I don't think so. The first use of it is 1940s from collectors, specifically referencing the short variant, which doesnt' "cut people down" any more effectively than the full-size version.

@F1ghteR41

Ай бұрын

@@jonathanferguson1211 For a brief moment I have considered asking whether the grip might have had the association with that of the Philippine bolo.

@jonathanferguson1211

29 күн бұрын

@@F1ghteR41 The normal 'Bolo' grip is shaped like the traditional broom handle.

Why didn't they use the mechanism to make a carbine? Extend the barrel, put a proper stock on it and with the 20 round magazine, it got a handy gun for manoeuvres through cramped trenches. A stop gap till submachine guns become more common. *Edit* A quick Google search informed me that a carbine does exist.

@ukaszwalczak1154

Ай бұрын

Many carbines infact.

@jonathanferguson1211

Ай бұрын

They did!

How many C96's does he have under that table?

I see firefly pistol

Youd think they wouldve been more of interest to the civilian market.

@cyan_oxy6734

Ай бұрын

With six shots you might as well carry a revolver.

@ZGryphon

Ай бұрын

Also, they were very expensive.

If i can get the 10 rounder, why would i want one that's missing 4 rounds? Mauser must've been a lil high when making this version of the C96.

@zoiders

Ай бұрын

Because pistols are carried a lot and fired very little. The 10 rounder being an utter ball ache to fit in a holster.

@ukaszwalczak1154

Ай бұрын

@@zoiders It's a rhetorical question. Plus, yeah, sure, i get your point, but the 6 rounder was discontinued, while the 10 rounder continued production.

@zoiders

Ай бұрын

@@ukaszwalczak1154 They couldn't sell them as officers just bought Lugers. Stop gamerising everything.

@ukaszwalczak1154

Ай бұрын

@@zoiders What even IS gamerising?

If you dont want it I'll take it 👍

2:04 talk about “attention to detail”. Even your “subscribe” avatar has little blue neoprene gloves on. 😂

I could spend a week oggling over the gun collection you have there, is it possible I could camp in between the racks, I promise not to steal any.

Reminds me of Bergmann pistols

:)

All together now - “its a broomhandled Mauser, it’s not a gun…” kzread.info/dash/bejne/eKpr2LxyhNPKY6w.html

These California Compliance laws are getting out of hand

Im the first to comment and second to like this Video

@samholdsworth420

Ай бұрын

🍪

Happy to see a scholarly channel about gun history that doesn't do a bunch of American gun politics claptrap. Talking to you youtube algorithm, because I like history doesn't meant I want to be convinced all civilians need to be paramilitary assholes

I think this things is rather ugly; like bread that you took out of the oven before it had time to rise completly. But still facinating and deserving of the spotlight nonetheless

500€ for a freaking stripper clip? 500€ for a bent piece of brass? Some people have too much money

@mandowarrior123

5 сағат бұрын

Historic relic to complete their display?

Bolo = Bolsheviks only live once

@Willy_Tepes

Ай бұрын

....once they have tasted blood.

The correct translation for ü is ue. Prüfungskommission- Pruefungskommission. ä-ae, ö-oe, ü-ue

@jonathanferguson1211

Ай бұрын

My bad - I had very little time to review the edit and missing the accent - apologies.