Here's my first real firearm that I own. Shot a ton of stuff, but I finally own one...
A Wartime commercial C96 Broomhandle Mauser. Mine was made sometime between 1914-1918. All matching numbers and the condition was great. It had a natural patina, and the bore had good rifling with some slight pitting. The only real pitting was under the grips, as they looked like they'd never been removed.
The grips were the worst part, as you can see have seen some use. Apparently some wood boring insect made its way into the grips once.
Otherwise it was a great base to start my conversion to this:
Above it is my MGC replica based Electronics version. It makes pew pew noises.
Real WWI Hensoldt scopes too. ^_^
So there it is. I did some early test firings, but only had some private load ammo that was too light and wouldn’t cycle the gun as you can see in the following videos. I now have some factory fiocchi and new springs on the gun, so will go shoot again soon. ^_^
here’s the early videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4mUl69V1Ok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbJlbVLBj0Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkXTMh4zES8
and the overview video for the mega nerds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yU-LMurFOU
