Translated by John Baum
30 pages soft cover
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This is a very important book for the many American owners of Mauser Military Pistols.
Due to a quirk of reassembly wherein many, but not all, of these pistols require a sharp rap with a block of wood or a rubber mallet to go in the last quarter-inch in reassembly. This is never covered previously in the literature on this gun but it does appear in the back of this manual under “Notes.”
This quirk, on some of these pistols, has resulted in stories of how hard this pistol is to put back together when in reality it is one of the fastest and easiest. You just have to know this trick if you run into one like this. There are other helpful tips in the “Notes” section as well.
Some people regard this, the first successful military automatic pistol, as an obsolete curiosity yet it stubbornly remains the best ever for some applications and performs up to modern standards in all practical applications for a combat pistol.
While it looks and feels clumsy in the hand, beauty is as beauty does and the Mauser Military pistol is one of the steadiest and easiest to control pistols, in terms of accuracy, ever made. Attach its shoulder stock and grab the front of the magazine well with your left hand and it becomes the only rock steady micro rifle ever made.
Most so-called survival rifles are so unsteady and hard to hit with that they are practically useless for the average man in a survival situation. Not the stocked Mauser pistol. It hits what you are aiming at easily and offers a powerful defensive capability that the others lack while still being a smaller package. If you think that a skeletonized over and under .22 rimfire and .410 shotgun is going to protect you from a wolf pack or an irate grisly or moose, much less a gang of criminal humans, you are delusional.
The Mauser has 10 fast shots of 7.63mm ammunition and each one has the penetration of a .357 magnum armor piercing round. That’s 10 chances to make a successful brain shot at point blank range on a charging moose or bear and it’s in a rock steady, accurate gun. It has proved devastatingly effective in all scenarios since it first came out in 1896. Today it is the only compact survival rifle worthy of the name and if you need this sort of gun there simply is nothing else satisfactory.
This translation of the original German manual for this pistol covers everything the user needs to know in typical precise German fashion. Exactly how the parts interact when the gun functions, how to load, unload, disassemble and reassemble, all with plenty of pictures for clarity.
The virtues of this gun justify paying collector’s prices for a using pistol for many people. When you need it there is simply no substitute for it in the modern world and once you have it you need a manual.—Jim Dickson
