Mauser HSc

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1. Vol 1 Walther Made Them Do It — Mauser, the Pocket Pistol, and the Gun Called HSc How a firm that had led the world in military self-loaders in 1896 found itself, forty years later, selling a boxy pocket pistol nobody wanted — and what it handed a twenty-five-year-old engineer to fix it
2. Vol 2 Alex Seidel's Patents — What the Shape Is Actually For Three United States patents name the designer, date the design to August 1934, and explain — in his own filed words — why the trigger, the butt and the hammer are the shapes they are
3. Vol 3 How It Works A blowback with no lock, a hammer the trigger cocks, a sear that is disconnected by the breech itself, a safety that moves the firing pin instead of the hammer — and one feature it is constantly credited with and does not have
4. Vol 4 Keeping It Working — Field Strip, Detail Strip, Maintenance and Repair No manual could be found for this pistol, in any language, from any of its three makers. This volume says what was looked for, what the patents establish instead, and what a correct procedure has to account for
5. Vol 5 The War Years — Contracts, Acceptance Marks and Serial Blocks A quarter of a million pistols in four and a half years, a navy that bought them first, five army variations that can be read off the trigger guard, and a marking table this dive will not pretend is settled
6. Vol 6 After Oberndorf Fell — the French Guns, Interarms and the HSc-80 A year of production under an occupying army, twenty-two years of nothing, nine years as an American import at a hundred and twenty dollars, and an Italian ending that could not be verified
7. Vol 7 Telling Them Apart Which pistol it is not, which HSc it is, and the one place to look first — with every variant photographed from the same side in the same orientation
8. Vol 8 Collecting One, the Law, and the Screen Thirty dated auction results, a ten-fold premium on the first thirteen hundred pistols, a rare calibre the market does not notice, and a curio-and-relic position that turns over in 2027