Mauser Pistol Serial Numbers' title='1914 Mauser Pistol Serial Numbers' />MAUSER POCKET PISTOL 191434 7. ACP 1. First introduced in 1914 Revised in 1934 2. Manufacture date July 1914 to 1939 3. Action Blowbackstriker. The Mauser SelfLoading Pistol. Wartime Commercial This variant is distinguished by the first appearance of the New Safety. Mauser 1. 91. 01. The Firearms Forum. OK, first lets see about the disassembly. BTW, I didnt say not to disassemble it for cleaning, I said not to detail strip it, which means taking it all apart. To field strip for cleaning, you retract the slide. Mauser Pistol Serial Numbers' title='1914 Mauser Pistol Serial Numbers' />Then push in up on the little spring at the front of the recoil spring guide, turn the guide and pull it out to the front. That allows the barrel to be removed just by pulling it straight up and out of the frame. Then, if the magazine is still in place, hold the slide and remove if needed and insert the magazine. Inserting the magazine, whether empty or loaded, will release the slide to go forward and off the frame. Now on the Germany marking. Wilson Combat 1911 CQB customized for Jackson Armorys Masters Series 1. This stunning pistol has an engraved cased hardened frame and engraved blued slide, with. The Mauser HSc Pistol, Burnham and Theodore, 2008, Mauser Pistolen, Weaver, Speed and Schmid, 2008 Axis Pistols in World War II, Jan C. Still, 1989. Mauser 1934 Pocket Pistol. ACP Description Mauser 1914 Pocket Pistol in. ACP. This simple blowback pistol was a huge commercial success during its time. Mauser Pistol Serial Numbers' title='1914 Mauser Pistol Serial Numbers' />That is what is called the country or origin COO mark and has been required on all foreign products imported into the US since about 1. It can be put on at the factory, in the exporting country, or in bond in the US before being released for sale. The type of mark shown wasis generally of the latter type, put on when the item was physically but not legally in the US. It would not have been on a pistol brought into the country by a returning serviceman or someone who bought the pistol in Germany it was only put on by commercial importers. C691' alt='1914 Mauser Pistol Serial Numbers' title='1914 Mauser Pistol Serial Numbers' />JimUnder GCA 6. That information for commercial firearms is normally put on at the factory, so we see the import stamp mainly on milsurp firearms. Mauser C 9. 6NOTE Total newbies trying to identify a gun might want to start on the Quick Identification Page. These pistols are collectors items. That means that nobody now uses them as workaday guns. No military or police force anywhere is known to carry the C 9. Ive heard about were the ceremonial guards at Maos tomb. But mention collectors, and youll see combat a plenty its the inevitable cage match between the Aristotelians and the Platonists, the splitters and the lumpers. Some collectors see differences everywhere theyre classic splitters. And the C 9. One of the books describes and pictures some seventy distinct variations. Ive identified more. Its as bad as collecting PEZ dispensers, but more expensive. Cpu Temp Gadget Windows Vista. On the other hand, a historian of firearms production would note that not all variants are equal. Some sold in large numbers. Others were duds, and were quickly dropped. In a very real sense, the common ones are the important ones. And they are the ones which approach the Platonic ideal of the Mauser the one youd show them when the kids ask, Whats a C 9. So. For the purposes of this site, I am going to make a break with the books, ignore the rarer variants, and concentrate on the ordinary guns which anyone, dedicated collector or casual shooter, is most likely to encounter. The vast majority of oddball pistol variations date from the early years of production. It didnt take the Mauser factory long to debug the design, and very soon after startup, reliable and remarkably sturdy pistols were being cranked out by the thousands. Except for an enforced hiatus at the end of World War One, the pistol stayed in continuous production for more than forty years. But for a while, the factory flailed about with a blizzard of minor variations and strange stylistic experiments. Six shot and twenty shot magazines, the flatside frame, the cone hammers, the large ring hammers, and the early Bolos all date to the first eight years or so of production. These had all pretty much disappeared by the time serial numbers reached the 4. I doubt it lacking documentation, its all guesswork, and so constitute a very small fraction of the total production of well over a million pistols. If we eliminate this small percentage of early pistols, a mere half dozen major variants remain. Ninety five percent of the guns made were one or another of these variants. Prewar Commercial, of two minor variants around 2. In the C 9. 6 context, the war is always the Great War of 1. Wartime Commercial around 1. Prussian Contract a. Red 9 around 1. Postwar Bolo, of two minor variants around 3. M 3. 0, of several minor variants around 1. Schnellfeuer close to 1. Plan I Program Specijalizacija 2011'>Plan I Program Specijalizacija 2011. USA, thanks to the 1. National Firearms Act. Most of the terminology is not entirely standardized. And most of it is modern Mauser never sold a new gun as a Prewar Commercial, for instance. However M 3. 0 is almost an official Mauser designation, as is Schnellfeuer more properly, Schnellfeuer pistole. The unofficial names used by modern collectors are relatively well known but vary somewhat in practice. On this site, I refer to all variants of the pistol as the C 9. The name Bolo is common but not standardized. I use it for any C 9. Others may apply the term to guns with either a short barrel or nasty little grips. Parts names I use appear on the exploded view. And keep in mind that prewar, wartime, and postwar in the C 9. Great War of 1. 91. I refer to the days when these guns were manufactured as the Stable Production Period something of a misnomer, Ill admit, as it was none too stable for a few years after the war. Stable Production Period is a new term it doesnt appear in the books. It extends from about 1. Prussian Contract guns and Schnellfeuers regardless of serial number. But exactly how to chart C 9. By date By serial number By feature All choices have drawbacks. By Date. Unfortunately, most Mauser production records were destroyed when French occupation forces demolished the Oberndorf factory and offices after WW2. There have been attempts to blame this vandalism on American troops, but for several reasons I dont buy it. In any event, this lack of records means that few dates can be established with certainty. Terms such as 1. Model, 1. Model, 1. Model, 1. Model, etc. Mauser never sold the guns as such, and the production dates cant be established with certainty. A few contracts have known dates, such as the Italian contract for 5. Prussian contract for 1. But Mauser called them all the military pistol until 1. Modell 1. 93. 0 usually contracted by us impatient modern types to M 3. Mausers designation for the series of variants introduced in 1. Schnellfeuer appeared. All other dates have been supplied after the fact, too often by collectors with more enthusiasm than accurate data. So classification by date isnt entirely satisfactory. By Serial Number. Classification by serial number doesnt work all that well either. Although the Mauser serial number system is simple in theory start at 1 and go up to whatever it was violated in practice. Mauser skipped some sizeable blocks of numbers in the early days, sometimes filling them in subsequently with later production pistols. And some contract guns had their own serial numbers, starting again at 1. The Schnellfeuer had its own series, also starting at 1. So Mauser actually made at least four C 9. Low serial number guns with later production features turn up, implying smaller and otherwise unknown contract runs with their own serial ranges, so exactly how many guns with a particular serial number were actually made can be hard to determine. Higher serial numbers are unique, though, as the highest serial contract gun would be about 1. Prussian Contract, and the highest serial Schnellfeuer was somewhere around 9. So a high number like 8. M 3. 0s, is a number unique among C 9. It remains difficult to account for flyers guns with serials substantially separated from their sisters with identical production features. A good example is 2. Wartime Commercial. But the immediately previous version, the Prewar Commercial, is found with serials well into the 2. Nearly all surviving Wartime Commercials have serials above the 2. So what exactly was going on at Mauser between the times the 2. Was 2. 32. 23. 2 actually made at the same time as the 2. At this late date it is generally impossible to say. To finish up the mysterious case of number 2. The best theory is that 2. Prewar Commercial, but was returned to the factory for a defective safety. She was then retrofitted with the New Safety hammer and safety lever. Since the only differences between the Prewar and Wartime commercial guns were those two parts, 2. Prewar to a Wartime Commercial. Perhaps thats how it happened, but absent a paper trail, we cant say for sure. By Feature. Classification by feature is useful, as its purely phenomenological. Features actually observed on a particular gun are sufficient to categorize it. This is the rationale for the common classification of all C 9. Cone Hammers, Large Ring Hammers, or Small Ring Hammers. Cone Hammers were made from approximately 1. Large Ring Hammers were made from approximately 1. All later guns have small ring hammers. This includes all the guns of the Stable Production Period. Hammer type is a poor way to classify guns of the Stable Production Period, as very different guns, such as Postwar Bolos and M 3. So other features become important.