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This is a very interesting rifle. Its bayonet is not separate from the rifle and isn't a folding type. Instead, it's a bayonet that fits inside the rifle and when you want it out and ready for a charge. You press a button and pull it out of the rifle, than you flip it and put it back into the rifle butt first. Now you're ready to stab someone with the rifle. Pretty nifty way to carry and arm a spike bayonet.
It also has a very weird shaped bolt, this can actually be a very fast bolt to work. Fast enough to rival even a Lee-Enfield bolt, but only if you willing to practice a little with it.
Finally. It lacks any safety at all. This was because the French military thought it was pointless to have one.
One, you can easily push the five rounds of ammunition in with your thumb and simply close the bolt over them on an empty chamber and when you needed to shot it. You simply could cycle the bolt to chamber a round and fire it.
Two, a soldier could die trying to turn the safety off if he had to duck into mud or water and his wet and slippery fingers kept slipping off the safety switch.
These rifles are a pain to date and unfortunately, I kinda scratched the screws on this one a little bit trying to get the wooden fore grip off with a pair of needle-nosed pliers, you could try to shave down the middle of a screwdriver and try that, but it's possible to break the rest of the screwdriver off working the screws lose. Damn the French and their specialized screws....
Anyway, the imprint under the barrel claimed it was made in 1957.
It also has a very weird shaped bolt, this can actually be a very fast bolt to work. Fast enough to rival even a Lee-Enfield bolt, but only if you willing to practice a little with it.
Finally. It lacks any safety at all. This was because the French military thought it was pointless to have one.
One, you can easily push the five rounds of ammunition in with your thumb and simply close the bolt over them on an empty chamber and when you needed to shot it. You simply could cycle the bolt to chamber a round and fire it.
Two, a soldier could die trying to turn the safety off if he had to duck into mud or water and his wet and slippery fingers kept slipping off the safety switch.
These rifles are a pain to date and unfortunately, I kinda scratched the screws on this one a little bit trying to get the wooden fore grip off with a pair of needle-nosed pliers, you could try to shave down the middle of a screwdriver and try that, but it's possible to break the rest of the screwdriver off working the screws lose. Damn the French and their specialized screws....
Anyway, the imprint under the barrel claimed it was made in 1957.
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This was the last bolt action standard issue rifle developed by a western power. As far as safeties, the M-1 and M-14 had foolproof safeties, the French were showing the type of obstinacy that led them to develop the Lebel with a tube magazine, an otherwise brilliant design. I suspect that they were trying to save money. The MAT 49 had a lovely safety feature, and they used that for decades in their colonial wars.
I don't know about tips, I am frequently wrong, like mixing up the Baker and Brunswick rifles. I just like reading about military firearms.
https://laststandonzombieisland.fil.....mbat-mat49.jpg
For years I thought this was Guadalcanal until I looked closely at it. Incidentally, when I was a German soldier in Second Hand Lions, I took the opportunity to try and keep a sight picture with the Mauser rifle. That sideways bolt has to be turned right into your eye to pull it back. Why the bolt was not bent I do not know, the rifle has a tremendous reputation as to its desgn.
https://laststandonzombieisland.fil.....mbat-mat49.jpg
For years I thought this was Guadalcanal until I looked closely at it. Incidentally, when I was a German soldier in Second Hand Lions, I took the opportunity to try and keep a sight picture with the Mauser rifle. That sideways bolt has to be turned right into your eye to pull it back. Why the bolt was not bent I do not know, the rifle has a tremendous reputation as to its desgn.
This is the first that I have heard of a 7,5 54 round.
I looked it up on wiki and saw this, "The 7.5 French cartridge is somewhat similar in appearance to the slightly longer and thicker 7.5×55mm Swiss GP11 round but users should never try to interchange the two rounds." Well daa! The smaller one wont fire and the bigger one will get jammed in the rifle.
I looked it up on wiki and saw this, "The 7.5 French cartridge is somewhat similar in appearance to the slightly longer and thicker 7.5×55mm Swiss GP11 round but users should never try to interchange the two rounds." Well daa! The smaller one wont fire and the bigger one will get jammed in the rifle.
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