[marktwain]

Winston Churchill had a Mauser that was state of the art when he had it. He used it to great effect in the Nile campaign, when the west had to contain an outbreak of militant Islam a century ago. He almost had a gunfight with it when he was captured in South Africa during the Boer War. That fight would have been interesting, as the future Prime Minister of the Transvall, Louis Botha, was the man who captured him. It is likely that at least one of them would not have survived.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I read Churchill’s story of that battle. The British drew swords, the Arabs charged with swords.
Churchill drew his, then in the charge placed it back in it’s sheath, and drew his Mauser and began to knock Arabs in the dust.
I often read of Southern Cavalry who, armed with double barrel shotguns and two handguns each, would charge Union cavalry armed with swords.

Guess who won.

[MasterGunner01]

Winston Churchill used his personal C96 Mauser against the natives trying to kill him at the Battle of Omdurman, Sudan in 1898. The Mauser worked flawlessly and Churchill escaped from this serious and deadly social encounter alive. Churchill was later to write in glowing terms about his Mauser pistol's usefulness in combat. The typical British officers of his time carried a 6-shot, top break, .455 revolver and not a semi-automatic, self-loading pistol.