1917 30-06 Chauchat
Got today a very interesting piece.. an american 1917 Chauchat in 30-06 (it turned 100 years old!!)
despite the design, i have to say that this is the worst machinegun ive ever seen
Im missing a magazine, maybe somebody have a spare one? magazine is slightly different from the french chauchat.
Thank you for a post on a rare US Machine Gun. I have never seen an extra 30/06 CHAUCHAT magazine, in my 54 years of collecting, I use to see plenty of the 8m/m Lebel magazines but they have dried up also, and have become expensive.. BILL
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Well.. if you have never seen one in 54 years i guess i got no chances!!
Very rare, one US weapon from one French idea, in Italy....
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ahahahah! yea sometimes lolby lebus12
Nice!-I believe you are right as many consider this one of the worst designed machineguns of all time!! Still a very cool piece!
Agree. Everything I have read about them is how awful they were. But I would own one anyday!
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The design is not a good one, but the big problem was poor manufacture-was the subject of a post war French inquiry into war profiteering-the magazine is very different for the rimless .30/06 round, a straight box rather than the complete curve for the wide rimmed Lebel 8mm. A friend of mine built a replica from a mix of actual and made up parts-might be possible to have a mag made up for it for display purposes!
Nice weapon. I have a magazine bag for it. Rich A. in Pa.
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Looks like one of the problems has been fixed in the American version. Closed box magazine instead of an open French magazine which left the cartridges susceptible to dirt. Unfortunately that was only one issue. Everything I've seen and read talks about parts not even being interchangeable with other guns because of poor machining quality during manufacturing as mention by Lithgow.
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