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July 29th, 2009 at 9:19 am
Not that rare. I bought mine at a gun show in Knoxville.
July 29th, 2009 at 9:21 am
Probably rare in the UK.
July 29th, 2009 at 9:31 am
I really wouldn’t refer to any rifle made after 1880 as “ancient” or an “artefact”.
Of course, a French rifle used in actual combat might be considered very rare at least.
July 29th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Well, it was too late for the Franco-Prussian war, which was fought with its very similar predecessor, the Chassepot rifle, and was replaced in the late 1880s by the Lebel, which was the first smokeless powder magazine-fed rifle ever issued (the US Army was using “trapdoor” Springfields at the time), so most of the combat seen by the Gras was in French colonies in Africa ans Asia in the pre-WWI period.
July 29th, 2009 at 11:22 am
Hey, I’ve got one of those! In .22 LR, no less. (Factory job; the French did a bunch in .22 for use as training rifles.)
July 29th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
They had one of the .22’s in for work at CCA last time I was down. I was all ate up with gun lust.