Live Fire Han Solo Mauser Replica 2024

It's been a while since doing one of these. This is a final test fire for the gun, so just showing it working and safe all gussied up.

Had one failure to fire out of over 100 rounds, and I suspect it was slightly out of battery.

This particular Mauser had lots of issues at first. To get it reliable is a major achievement. I'll have the story in a show off video soon.

I also wanted to add… oiling the ammo on this gun, was a trick Jerry Miculek showed me while we were filming the TV show when I built their Live Fire Han Solo.

We had issues with the old chambers being pretty worn and rough, and most of this ammo just doesn’t feed well. So He showed me and said to oil the ammo and it’ll help with failures to extract and feed, etc.

There’s no oil getting on the primers as the back of each round is protected by the stripper clip.

Yes it slings oil, but cleanup is easier than a bunch of cakes on powder.

I took his recommendation and still use… but only for these old Mausers that are modified with all the weight of the steel bull barrel, booster, and flash hider.

MY regular Mausers, ESB, I do not need to do this at all. They function perfectly well pretty dry.