WW1 Veteran Finds a Home

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The other day I stupidly wandered into THAT pawnshop with my wallet and credit card. They had "some old 32" automatic that they didn't know much about. I walked out the door with it for $300 total. It is a Mauser Model 1914 32acp. I got a good but not outstanding deal. It is in pretty good shape. Today I did a field strip and cleaning, as well as replacing the recoil and striker springs. The poor old veteran was bone-dry and the barrel seems to be slightly pitted. The serial number indicates it was made in 1916, and it has an imperial acceptance stamp that shows it was accepted into the Kaiser's army.

I plan on taking it to the range next weekend. I will post a range report then. It has some wear, but not a lot. I don't think it has been shot very much.

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Check the front of the trigger guard and see if it has a Prussian Eagle acceptance mark as well.
 
In another thread on the same gun, I made some comments I will repeat here because they need to reach a wide audience.

Disassembly beyond field stripping is NOT recommended.

Do not ever dry fire one of those guns without snap caps; the firing pins are very fragile and both the tips and the tails (the cocking indicator) break all too often.

The flat springs, likewise, are prone to breakage, especially the trigger spring and the trigger bar spring. (FWIW, the diagram in the Gun Parts Corp. catalog I have has the part names and numbers all mixed up!)

They also have an odd loading system which was also used on the later HSc. When the slide is retracted on an empty magazine or no magazine, it can be closed only by insertion of a magazine, loaded or empty. I have seen several Mauser pistols badly damaged by users trying to force the slide closed when all they needed to do was replace the magazine.

Jim
 
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