Thanks to Staghounds for the invaluable help researching this episode! The French Municion Lancée à la Main Pierre is one of the little-known French infantry weapons of the Great War. Originally developed as a man-portable version of the Municion Trébuchet Bloc de Rocher 1873, it would be progressively simplified and used in large numbers throughout World War One. It would prove so successful that both German and Russian copies were made, the Großessteinstück Leutezuwerfen Art 18 and Разве ты не хочешь взять в руки рок-товарища партии.
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Perfect, right on time! 🙂
This made my day!
Thanks, Ian.
Are there any women here today?
Hook, line, and sinker. Great get!
Ow… Ow… Ow…
It definitely did damage to me.
Wait… there’s no demonstration of use! What a gyp! 🙂
No disassembly either.
2G-ACM!
I think I found one in my garden, do you have the markings and serials of the different patterns of LMP?
I fell for this. The delivery was just too credible. Tres credible! Were red pants part of the tactic?
More likely, brown ones. :-^)
Amazing! Especially keeping a straight face through it all. I watched it all the way through waiting for you to say; “they just picked it up and pitched it over to the German trench hoping to hear an ACH#@!” Loved it.
Ahh!
The predecessor of the kitchen sink!
Wait, I have seen anti-tank version of this weapon in one movie… I know watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axBiR8ZipPM&t=90s
🙂
“It’s not fair! They’ve got giant rocks!!”
Brilliant! Congratulations Ian.
Not to forget the famous German designer who improved upon it – A. von Pril-Scherz! 😉
Was it augmented with pointy sticks for the support troops?
I wouldn’t have let on it was an April fools at the end. Should have just done your usual and thanked contributers.
But otherwise very well played sir.
municion? munition. French ain’t spanish.
vemont? should have gone next door, the Granite State of New Hampshire..we know granite..it’s in our name! LOL
Were the American versions done in inch or metric?
Like many French weapons a variant of a foreign design. Check the much earlier work of Rubble and Flintstone.
In our area of France the locals grew tobacco for the state and for themselves. They used a device that looked like a small trench mortar with an internal piston to compact the weed and a slicing blade was threaded on to the muzzle
I had one of these in the bar of my brewery with an old 50 cl beer bottle in it
We used to tell people that in 1918 when the germans were running out of munitions they used this device to launch beer bottles full of gasoline
And of course everybody believed us
Ever hear of the PIAT?
was used unfortunately with success in May 1968 (one police officer killed by pavement)
But good Idea, vevetheless still some problems with the french lenguage
We need to honor the transport troops who got these items to the front. A wheelbarrow full of LMPs, racing to the trenches to arrive ahead of the oncoming Germans.
What? No disassembly procedure with discussion on the internal workings? No range report with Karl?
Well played, sir. Well played. A nice treat at the end of a brutal Monday.
A supply truck is on the way with scrapped concrete… Where’s my trebuchet!?
That was fun! Was looking forward to pictures of the chalk version with the wooden handle.
I normally dispise april fool’s jokes, but this was great!! You sold it so well!
Thanks for the great content as always!!
Oookay… I was a couple minutes in before I remembered what today is. I was thinking this was something like the coal torpedo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_torpedo used in the Civil War to disable trains.
How much do you want for the handle?
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Will this appear at RIA soon ?
I wonder if there is any lineage shared between this and the us cooking aid “rock or something”.
It’s worth noting the story of the Nicaraguan National Hero, Andres Castro Estrada, best remembered for downing an American Fillibuster with a rock to the head. One modern depiction of the event is Classic Badass and shows the Sergeant in full rambo mode with both his sleeves ripped off and an absolutely shredded physique. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_San_Jacinto_(1856)