{"id":8000,"date":"2016-11-10T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/10\/chinese-c96-wauser-broomhandle\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:26:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:26:02","slug":"chinese-c96-wauser-broomhandle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/10\/chinese-c96-wauser-broomhandle\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese C96 &#8220;Wauser&#8221; Broomhandle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TPu0fQhnY48?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Sold for $3,163 (with one other pistol).<\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons Merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The C96 Mauser was a very popular handgun in China in the 1920s and 30s, which naturally led to a substantial number of domestically-produced copies of it. These ran the full range of quality, from dangerous to excellent. This particular example falls into the middle, appearing to be a pretty fair mechanical copy of the C96 action . However, it does exhibit classic Chinese misspelled markings &#8211; the workers who made these guns often did nor actually read English (or German), and made best-guess attempts at copying the markings on authentic firearms. The result was sometimes something like the Wauser.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related:<br \/>\nChinese Mystery Pistols I: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4HNaB7l2GQk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4HNaB7l2GQk<\/a><br \/>\nChinese Mystery Pistols II: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VtFPgu82f1c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VtFPgu82f1c<\/a><br \/>\nChinese Mystery Pistols III: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=byEIP9mRAwA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=byEIP9mRAwA<\/a><br \/>\nAstra Model 900: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LZ-ksZSMIi0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LZ-ksZSMIi0<\/a><br \/>\nShansei .45ACP Broomhandle: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2DDc0hXk0ws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2DDc0hXk0ws<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sold for $3,163 (with one other pistol). Cool Forgotten Weapons Merch! http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons The C96 Mauser was a very popular handgun in China in the 1920s and 30s, which naturally led to a substantial number of domestically-produced copies of it. These ran the full range of quality, from dangerous to excellent. This particular example falls into&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/10\/chinese-c96-wauser-broomhandle\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chinese C96 &#8220;Wauser&#8221; Broomhandle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15113,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8000\/revisions\/15113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}