I bought my C96 almost 20 yrs ago from a friend of mine, its a reblued job, but I mainly want one to see how it works and as a shooter, I second the comment about those 7.62 Tokarev ammo, some are loaded for sub machine gun and way too hot for the broomhandle, and accuracy are worst than a shotgun pattern at 25 yds!

If you are going to reload, keep velocity around 1,000 - 1,100 ft/sec with 100gr. round nose bullets, start with 5.0 gr. of Unique and work up.

Beware when striping the pistol, unlike many morden arms, every parts are interlocked with others and there are no pins or screws to held them together, be extra careful when remove the lockwork/hammer block, some small parts may come loose and drop out, so its best to do it on top of a clean work bench.