Loading Problem with Mauser C96

[WarPig1976]

Not familiar with these but in picture 3 it looks like if the extractor was over the rim you'd be good. I would see why it's not snapping over the rim of the cartridge. My 2c's

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[arado]

Check the chamber for a stuck ruptured case. This will give you the problem described. Then comes the fun of extraction.

[Ludwig99b0]

Thanks, Warpig - I'll check the extractor function, and report back.

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Thanks for your suggestion, Arado, but chamber and bore are as clean as a whistle.

[Ludwig99b0]

Not familiar with these but in picture 3 it looks like if the extractor was over the rim you'd be good. I would see why it's not snapping over the rim of the cartridge. My 2c's

A big thank-you to everyone who's advised me on this. I believe I've cleared the problem, now. Here's what I did. I pulled the bolt back a few inches, with a round chambered, waggled the tip of the extractor up and down a few times with a sharp pick, and dropped the bolt on the cartridge. Then I did it again - and-again - and again. The fourth time, the extractor snapped over the rim, and I was in battery. So I loaded the magazine, and cycled the pistol ten times .... A-OK. There may well have been a gobbet of fifty-year-old grease, or some other crud, that was making the extractor a bit lazy. Anyway, I'm now confident that it's functioning properly

Thanks again to everyone who replied.