The 1874 Gras: France Enters the Brass Cartridge Era - Forgotten Weapons
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Preorders now open for my book, "Chassepot to FAMAS: French Military Rifles 1866-2016"! Get your copy here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/headstamp/chassepot-to-famas-french-military-rifles-1866-201?ref=5ct6gb After the disaster of the Franco-Prussian War, it was clear to the French military that the rationale for using paper cartridge in the Chassepot was no longer valid - a future rifle would need to use brass cartridges. A competition to design a conversion of the Chassepot to use mode
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Preorders now open for my book, "Chassepot to FAMAS: French Military Rifles 1866-2016"! Get your copy here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/headstamp/chassepot-to-famas-french-military-rifles-1866-201?ref=yr14b9 The Model 1866 Chassepot was France's first military cartridge-firing rifle. It used a self-contained paper cartridge on the same basic principle as the Prussian 1841 Dreyse rifle, but was a substantial improvement on that system. The Chassepot fired an 11mm bullet at about 1350 fps
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Preorders now open for my book, "Chassepot to FAMAS: French Military Rifles 1866-2016"! Get your copy here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/headstamp/chassepot-to-famas-french-military-rifles-1866-201?ref=8caipm After the adoption of the single-shot Gras rifle in 1874, attitudes towards repeating rifles began to shift in the French military. The Battle of Plevna had shown that regardless of their hypothetic detriments, repeating rifles could substantially magnify a force's firepower and all
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