Wartime HScs were purchased by the German Army ( Heer) and the Kriegsmarine, as well as various police agencies. It has a simple blowback action without any positive locking mechanism, which is not at all unusual for.
The "c" just means it's the third version (the HSa and HSb were unproduced prototypes made during development). "HS" stands for the German phrase Hahn-Selbstspanner (literally "Hammer-Selfspanner", as in to span a gap), which is best translated in this context as "self-cocking hammer"-that is, describing a hammer-fired pistol with a double-action trigger mechanism. Despite its name, the Model 1934 was fairly well out of date by that time, being only a mildly updated version of the old Model 1914 (which was itself an updated, slightly larger Model 1910). And yet, whereas the PP and its smaller cousin, the PPK, went on to fame and lasting influence after the war, the HSc has been largely forgotten.ĭeveloped in the late 1930s and commencing production in 1940, the HSc replaced the Model 1934 in Mauser's product line.
And like the PP, it was bought and issued in large numbers by the armed forces and police services of National Socialist Germany. Like the PP, it is another of the many, many small automatic pistols designed to use the enormously popular 7.65mm Browning/.32 ACP cartridge in interwar Europe. Like the PP, it was developed in Germany in the 1930s, intended mainly for the military and police market.
This week, we're going to have a look at one of its contemporaries and direct competitors.
In a number of previous Gun of the Week posts, we've discussed the Walther PP, along with a number of other pistols (several of them from the Eastern Bloc) that were more or less obviously inspired by its design. Eyrie Productions, Unlimited - Gun of the Week: Mauser HScĮyrie Productions, Unlimited Subject: "Gun of the Week: Mauser HSc"
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