Comments by "Kevin Oliver" (@kevinoliver3083) on "Just Too Powerful: The C96 in 9mm Mauser Export" video.

  1. In 1939 Mauser offered a 9x25mm load that was equivalent contemporary .357 Remington Magnum. But, because of the War it never entered production.
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  2. Westley Richards developed an expanding bullet for 7.63x25mm. It was intended only for hunting. It had a hollow cavity within the jacketed nose. And a inverted cone that would be driven into the lead core when the nose collapsed, causing it to spread out. Westley Richards were the British, and Imperial agents for Mauser products at the turn of the 19th & 20th Centuries. As well as selling complete Mauser products, they built sporting rifles using standard G1898 actions. And Westley Richards commissioned Mauser to develop the long version of the action. For Express calibres.
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  3. The same reason we also have 9x23mm Steyr. Early automatic pistol makers designed their weapons around propriety cartridges. 9x19mm didn't become the norm until WW2.
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  4. 'Mericans.
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  5. In the event, the South African Republic invaded Natal and the Cape Colony first. Hoping to achieve a decisive victory, overrunning the garrisons at Ladysmith, Mafeking and Kimberley before British reinforcements could arrive from India and the UK. Bad idea!
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  6. Until he went to the trenches WW1, when he switched to a M1911 in .45ACP.
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  7. Mauser developed a 9x25mm load in 1939/40 that was equivalent to contemporary .357 Remington Magnum. But it did not enter production, because of the War.
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