The Broomhandle no-one wanted. The 6-shot C96 Mauser with firearms expert Jonathan Ferguson.

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The world of early 20th-century firearms dawned a new era as revolvers began to be swept away by higher magazine capacity and faster reloading pistols.
The C96 exploded in popularity with shooters worldwide, sparking a frenzy of variants - some favoured, others... well, let's just say ‘less so’.
Join Jonathan as he examines one such rare example and explains his admiration for this often-overlooked smaller, shorter ‘officer’s model’ C96.
0:00 Intro
0:30 6-Shot C96 ‘Broomhandle’ Mauser
2:15 Officer’s Model
4:10 Not Another One
5:01 Bolo Lingo
6:20 Sights
7:25 Never Technically Called a C96…
8:06 Firearm Features
12:23 Markings
13:15 History & Context
17:35 Outro
Mauro Baudino's Mauser lecture: • Mauser Archives (RA Wi...
Books mentioned:
Jonathan Ferguson. 2017. 'The 'Broomhandle' Mauser' (Osprey Publishing).
Mauro Baudino; Gerben Van Vlimmeren. 2017. 'Paul Mauser, his life, company, and handgun development 1838-1914' (Brad Simpson Publishing)
Images used:
Image of 'Soviet commissars with C96 Mausers' from THE SAGA OF RUSSIAN BROOMHANDLES Article by laststandonzombieisland
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@bl4cksp1d3r Месяц назад

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

@Noise-Bomb Месяц назад

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

@jakekelsey8038 Месяц назад

Ok frodo 😂

@Noise-Bomb Месяц назад

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

@quentintin1 Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

@@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.

@robk113 Месяц назад

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

@paleoph6168 Месяц назад

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

@Chiller11 Месяц назад

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.

@donovanchau3483 Месяц назад

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.

@cyan_oxy6734 Месяц назад

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

@Kremit_the_Forg Месяц назад

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?

@PaulP999 Месяц назад

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".

@IKEACherryChair Месяц назад

The c96 MopStick

@FEEDMEKITTENS Месяц назад

The C96 Swiffer

@samholdsworth420 Месяц назад

C96 chopstick 🥢

@Matt-md5yt Месяц назад

it's adorable. thanks for taking about this model

@enlightenerofcryptozoology8761 25 дней назад

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.

@gorbalsboy Месяц назад

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 😊

@matterhaz2980 Месяц назад

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

@MrSharpClaw Месяц назад

Fallouts "chinese pistol" is basically a c96.

@Marcel_Germann Месяц назад

@@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". ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Vd0q8EMhqRY.html

@avp5964 Месяц назад

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

@alanlawson4180 Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

“Did I shoot 10 shots or nine?”

@jonathanferguson1211 Месяц назад

He owned three ten shot pistols.

@KlickyMonster Месяц назад

Broomhandle? Think “whisk broom.”

@JRGRAY-33 Месяц назад

Another informative and interesting video review. Thank you 👍🏾

@howardmaryon Месяц назад

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

@alanmcmillan6969 Месяц назад

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

@williestyle35 Месяц назад

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

@ThePerks2010 Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

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

@MatsJPB Месяц назад

Looks nice!

@gwtpictgwtpict4214 25 дней назад

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

@stephenthacker-dh4rq Месяц назад

Jonathon sir, you are a treasure.

@RedHuntsman 28 дней назад

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.

@ralach Месяц назад

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

@abnurtharn2927 Месяц назад

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

@jonathanferguson1211 Месяц назад

About 27,100 :)

@Detaleader Месяц назад

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

@jonathanferguson1211 29 дней назад

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

@tomppeli. Месяц назад

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

@TheSundayShooter Месяц назад

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

@FindecanorNotGmail Месяц назад

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

@samholdsworth420 Месяц назад

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

@samholdsworth420 Месяц назад

@@FindecanorNotGmail your comment disappeared lol

@biddinge8898 Месяц назад

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

@jonathanferguson1211 Месяц назад

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.

@mattwoodard2535 Месяц назад

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

@Getpojke Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

i think you mean 1890/91

@Getpojke Месяц назад

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

@sike3000 Месяц назад

@@Getpojke yeah i read it twice before i noticed

@cyan_oxy6734 Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

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

@cptlonesong3211 Месяц назад

perfectly balanced cut, as all things should be

@samholdsworth420 Месяц назад

Less bullets equals less balanced 😂

@Sgtklark Месяц назад

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 дней назад

I have a Spanish bolo bayonet.

@MrBogThing Месяц назад

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

@oldesertguy9616 Месяц назад

Beautiful weapon.

@liquidoxygenbar7671 Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

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

@liquidoxygenbar7671 Месяц назад

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

@liquidoxygenbar7671 Месяц назад

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

@liquidoxygenbar7671 Месяц назад

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

@user-fk3pc2nb7e Месяц назад

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

@jonathanferguson1211 Месяц назад

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

@F1ghteR41 Месяц назад

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

@jonathanferguson1211 29 дней назад

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

@F1ghteR41 28 дней назад

@@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.

@ianwinter514 Месяц назад

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

@lakrids-pibe Месяц назад

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)

@1982rrose Месяц назад

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

@Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y Месяц назад

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.

@indigohammer5732 Месяц назад

It's not too bad a size.

@ashardalondragnipurake 19 дней назад

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

@misolgit69 Месяц назад

I'm surprised it wasn't nicknamed the Kurtz

@sunil_de6856 Месяц назад

Is that a cutaway Lee Enfield in the background?

@jonathanferguson1211 Месяц назад

It is. We have various different cutaway Lees.

@thecommissaruk Месяц назад

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

@samholdsworth420 Месяц назад

Quite a svelte c96

@mementomori771 24 дня назад

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

@RedHuntsman Месяц назад

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

@jamesl7201 Месяц назад

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

@DrUmbreon Месяц назад

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

@tomci121 Месяц назад

Dual dolches?

@F1ghteR41 Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

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

@zoiders Месяц назад

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

@jonathanferguson1211 Месяц назад

@@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 Месяц назад

@@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.

@patrikhjorth3291 Месяц назад

So it's a SMBH, Short Magazine BroomHandle?

@il6993 Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

@@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 дней назад

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

@evillabrador1 Месяц назад

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

@grahampalmer9337 Месяц назад

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.

@user-rd6ii6mp1t Месяц назад

Mini broomhandle... so a feather duster handle?

@TheVirtuoso883 Месяц назад

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

@DawidKov Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

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

@ZGryphon Месяц назад

@@jonathanferguson1211 And _especially_ a Nagant. :)

@madzen112 Месяц назад

The gloves are on

@MrAmptech Месяц назад

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

@jonathanferguson1211 Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

@@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 дней назад

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

@WorldCupWillie Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

Many carbines infact.

@jonathanferguson1211 Месяц назад

They did!

@aidanfarnan4683 Месяц назад

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

@nickdavis5420 Месяц назад

I see firefly pistol

@MrSharpClaw Месяц назад

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

@cyan_oxy6734 Месяц назад

With six shots you might as well carry a revolver.

@ZGryphon Месяц назад

Also, they were very expensive.

@ukaszwalczak1154 Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

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

@ukaszwalczak1154 Месяц назад

@@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 Месяц назад

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

@ukaszwalczak1154 Месяц назад

@@zoiders What even IS gamerising?

@SausagecatChannel Месяц назад

If you dont want it I'll take it 👍

@scottbruner9266 28 дней назад

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

@spikemcnock8310 25 дней назад

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.

@mateimarian1937 Месяц назад

Reminds me of Bergmann pistols

@salty4496 Месяц назад

@zulu1184 Месяц назад

All together now - “its a broomhandled Mauser, it’s not a gun…” ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Fv7vZ9Tpd3I.html

@SarhcBannitoot Месяц назад

These California Compliance laws are getting out of hand

@jankusthegreat9233 Месяц назад

Im the first to comment and second to like this Video

@samholdsworth420 Месяц назад

🍪

@spyczech Месяц назад

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

@NekoColaQ Месяц назад

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