I’m guessing the restoration shop ran out of them.
In the other post, I mentioned I wanted to buy a set to make it closer to original but the red nine is just plain ugly.
I had a couple of pierced primers because there’s too sharp of a point on the end of the firing pin. I tried to buy one some years back with the grips and I can’t find one. The solution would be to dull the pin but I don’t want to take anything off without a spare that works.
Taking one of these C96’s apart is really an experience. You can’t imagine all the machine cuts needed to make one of these. It’s amazing.
I’ve never opened one of these but an old timer smith in Mystic, IA had one apart. Amazing and almost engineered for the sake of proving it could be done.