GREAT price on the Mauser! I paid $300 for mine and thought I got a decent deal.
Universal availability online seems to have eliminated most "great deals", since almost everybody can just click a couple of links and get a base price to set things at.
But if you dig around a bit, I'm finding you CAN land older .32 acps at a bargain. The round isn't sexy, everyone wants 9mm, seems willing to settle on .380 at the smallest. The 'carry' angle is totally driven by new subcompacts with polymer frames, not older SAO steel guns that have small calibers. By straying outside the consensus classic guns, demand seems low, and prices can be found- doubt you will find a Walther PP, but you CAN find Savages, Mausers, CZ's.
I landed this current Mauser for $150, to go with the $200 one I already have. I've picked up a couple CZ 27's for low, one for $150. My Savage was also below $200.
Yeah, I would prefer to use fmj's myself, it's just the the little pawn shop that I went to only had the two rounds I mentioned in .32acp. I think I'll probably order some Fiocchi online.
I ran into that when I bought my first .32, which was a CZ 27 at a pawn shop. Flatnose Winchester for $20 a box of 50. Didn't feed worth a darn.
Online, you can find either Fiocchi or PPU roundnose FMJ for around or under $12 a box, and they run great.
These little guns are so neat and well-made, and the cost of decent ammo is so close to what we pay for 9mm, that I ordered about half a case. When I take them out, I put a couple of mags through each, enough to enjoy without beating them to death. They are all pleasant to shoot.
Cleaning is pretty easy, too. As noted, you don't want to take the Savage grips off, they WILL break. Luckily, the design is such that you don't really need to.
What I ended up doing is this:
I mixed some Lamp oil and ATF into a big glass jar, believe it was a large pickle jar. I keep the lid on it to store it.
I also have coffee tins. I field strip the gun and place the pieces into the tin (DON'T put the Savage frame with the grips into this; on the others you can safely remove the grips and put the frame in too). I fill it with the oil mix. Let is soak awhile, I left it overnight. Swish it around a bit.
Then, using a strainer (coffee filter works great), pour the oil back into the jar, and seal it up and store it again. This greatly loosens the decades of gunk these guns accumulated. Let the parts drip/dry on newspaper, wiping and using a little compressed air to blow the excess out. This leaves a nice film on all the steel parts. Then clean, lube and reassemble. The guns look worlds nicer after that first bath, and things feel slick and smooth like it should.