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Sure. Broom-handled Mausers. Horrible guns from shooting and reliability points of view. Unnautural pointing, the action and bore are way above supporting hand, loads by stripper clip to a fixed box magazine, and the action's unreliable. Really quite cledgey. But beautifully machined and loaded with history. Very popular in China. Also very popular with a friend of mine who kept buying another after he forgot how much he had hated the one before.
We had scads of these available five or ten years ago, most converted to 9x19mm (and they worked even worse). Early evolutionary example of the self-loading pistol. A better shooting example of this genre would be a nice P.08 Luger (if you can find one whose price is not fully inflated).
7.63 Mauser, however, is an interesting cartridge. .30 bottleneck and Berdan primed (forget reloading unless you form your own brass) and very zippy. Very modern for its time (think .357Sig).
Pinky: I shoot over 10,000 rounds of pistol ammo most years without damaging anything other than air, paper, steel, and dirt. The shooting sports are alive and functioning without incident in the U.S. with an unprecedented rate or participation across all demographic lines. Furthermore, twenty years of uncontrovertible empiric statistics in this country demonstrate that our states with "shall issue" concealed carry laws have lower violent crime rates than all other jurisdictions in this country. Much to the chagrin of the gun haters, firearms do have demonstrably beneficial roles in society.
7.63 Mauser, however, is an interesting cartridge. .30 bottleneck and Berdan primed (forget reloading unless you form your own brass) and very zippy. Very modern for its time (think .357Sig).
Pinky: I shoot over 10,000 rounds of pistol ammo most years without damaging anything other than air, paper, steel, and dirt. The shooting sports are alive and functioning without incident in the U.S. with an unprecedented rate or participation across all demographic lines. Furthermore, twenty years of uncontrovertible empiric statistics in this country demonstrate that our states with "shall issue" concealed carry laws have lower violent crime rates than all other jurisdictions in this country. Much to the chagrin of the gun haters, firearms do have demonstrably beneficial roles in society.