Today’s book we have courtesy of Luc (thanks, Luc!) – French Military Weapons 1717-1938, by Major James Hicks. Originally written in 1938, it was reprinted by Flayderman’s in 1964. It’s tough to find today, but offers one of the few comprehensive overviews of French military arms from bayonets to field artillery.
As I mention in the video, this is a good one to keep an eye out for at gun shows, where you might find it for just a few bucks. But if you want it right now, there is always Amazon:
Today I am out at the range to put the first shots through a completed replica of the French Chauchat-magazine Berthier conversion. The real versions of these guns were made on Mle 1890 cavalry carbines […]
Scrome, the original maker of the J8 scope used by the French Army on the FR-F2 sniper rifle, is making a commercial run of J8 scopes for collectors who have the recently-released surplus FR-F2 rifles. […]
This is an example of a needle fire conversion of a French 1822 rifle based on the patent of L. Merckelbagh. The conversion was done in Paris, probably in the early 1870s. Other base rifles […]
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Great book. One volume I often borrowed until I found a copy.
Love the line drawings. Much better than pictures for identification.
Is that SolidWorks open on the computer behind you?
No, just a photo of an interesting French rifle. 🙂
Look a photo of the prototype MAS 62 in 7.62 NATO
I’ve got an other book about French assault rifles, very interesting: “Les fusils d’assaut français de 1916 à nos jours” by Huon Jean.
Jean Huon is an excellent and prolific author on weapons, and has a great article in the current Small Arms Review (which came in this week’s post). The subject of the article is early French semi-auto rifle designs, and there were quite a few before the M1917/1918 that was issued. The rest of the issue’s full of great stuff, too.