With the failure of its large-caliber pistols to find a market, particularly a military market, Waffenfabrik Mauser turned its attention to the police market, whichĪt the time was dominated by the 7.65 mm Browning cartridge.įirst Variant Model 1914 -The Mauser “Humpback” Pistol The 1908 Pieper Bayard held theĬompact end of the European market. RM&M came out with the Dreyse 7.65 mm pistol in 1907, and even though the gun was rather awkward looking and not particularlyĮrgonomic it sold well to police departments all over Germany. The French Bernardon-Martin had appeared in 1907, but production numbers of this handmade gun were miniscule and distribution was limited. There were a few Spanish copies of the Colt being made, but they were generally of inferior quality. 32 ACP in 1903, but due to a marketing agreement with FN, the Colt. Which originated the cartridge with its Model 1899/1900, a gun with legendary reliability andĪccuracy. Early on, the market was almost completely controlled by Fabrique Nationale (FN), In this era guns chambered for the 7.65 mm Browning (.32 ACP) cartridge were popping up all over Europe. Parabellum, with an unlocked breech and a recoil buffer spring, but it proved unsatisfactory for the powerful cartridge, and so the design was scaled down to create the Model 1910 in 6.35 mmīrowning cartridge, minus the recoil buffer spring.Īpparently, only after the Model 1910 was developed and in production did attention turn in earnest to building a gun for the 7.65 mm Browning cartridge. Then the Model 1909 was designed, first in 9 mm Locked-breech pistol with the magazine in front of the trigger guard, but it did not fare well against Luger’s Parabellum in government evaluations.
For instance, Paul Mauser had high hopes for a design known as the C06/08, a In fact, the company seems to have concentrated at this time on developing a design for the larger caliber of 9 mm.
Than the well-known Browning 7,65 pistol.,” referring of course to the Model 1900 Browning. Handfeuerwaffen (the German Experimental Laboratory for Handguns) sometime in 1908 that his company would be producing a 7.65 mm automatic pistol “.not larger in weight and size We see in Baudino and van Vlimmeren’s book Paul Mauser: His Life, Company, and Handgun Development 1838-1914 that Paul Mauser himself had told the Deutsche Versuchs-Anstalt für
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