Silence uses a Mauser C96 Broomhandle. Production began in 1896. The gun is loaded from top with a stripper clip. We never see Silence load the pistol in the movie. Silences holster is also somewhat modified. It opens up to the front while the original opens to the side. The way the holster is attached to Silences belt is also modified from the original. A speed draw from the holster would not the easiest thing to do, since the grip sits deep in the holster. The Great Silence takes place in 1898, so the pistol is not too moders for the movie. The first version with the wooden holster came in year 1898. Howard Hughes states some mistakes in his book, Once Upon A Time In The Italian West - A Filmgoers Guide To Spaghetti Westerns, about the Mauser C96 used in The Great Silence. He states its a 9mm which is wrong, it is 7.63x25mm. There was a 9x25mm Mauser Export version made in 1907 and a 9x19mm Parabellum version made in 1916. It had a large red 9 engraved and painted on the handle, hence the nickname Red 9. Hughes also writes it has a selector switch which turns it between semi- and fully automatic. This is a much later model called M712, Schnellfeuer or M1932, which production began in 1932 and is not used in the movie. spaghettiwesterns.1g.fi/guns.htm
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