Gildwiller1918 Posted August 15, 2022 Author Share Posted August 15, 2022 Men of French 107th regiment posing with several chauchats. Note the spare magazines and leather wrist holder for the pocket watch. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
72 usmc Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 I just can not imaging such a poorly designed magazine in all that mud. WW I Marines threw them away. I love this post and all the historic photos. from an old issue of American Rifleman (2012). An interesting discussion. https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/that-damned-jammed-chauchat/ 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gildwiller1918 Posted August 23, 2022 Author Share Posted August 23, 2022 Good story, I have read it before, but not in a long time, thanks for posting it here. I think the Chauchat was a good concept, that if field tested more and had better standards, might have turned out to be a better weapon, however it was not meant to be. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddieq Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 Yes, it was not meant to be, but who would have thought that it would be tested in a temperate (wet!) European theatre and not the colonial one that all the superpowers of the time would have chosen! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gildwiller1918 Posted August 24, 2022 Author Share Posted August 24, 2022 Good point Eddieq, for its time it did have a lot of innovative features that are common today, such as the forward grip, air cooled, magazine with a viewport to see ammo (albeit it was open air), simple stamped parts, etc. It might have performed better in hotter climates, but it did tend to easily overheat. In dry sandy climates it still might have not done well as sand would have jammed up the action. But the French and other allied nations made due with what they had. For a weapon with such a bad reputation, you think it would be easy to find parts and accessories. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gildwiller1918 Posted August 24, 2022 Author Share Posted August 24, 2022 Serbian Soldier on the Salonika front or Macedonian front manning an early model CSRG. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gildwiller1918 Posted August 24, 2022 Author Share Posted August 24, 2022 More images of French troops with the Chauchat, second image shows the special magazine carrier backpack. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gildwiller1918 Posted August 24, 2022 Author Share Posted August 24, 2022 German soldiers with captured Chauchat and Lewis gun. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gildwiller1918 Posted August 24, 2022 Author Share Posted August 24, 2022 Period images of US troops with the Chauchat. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gildwiller1918 Posted September 2, 2022 Author Share Posted September 2, 2022 More period images of the CSRG 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gildwiller1918 Posted September 3, 2022 Author Share Posted September 3, 2022 More period images of the Chauchat in action. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gildwiller1918 Posted September 9, 2022 Author Share Posted September 9, 2022 More period images of the Chauchat. 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gildwiller1918 Posted May 13, 2023 Author Share Posted May 13, 2023 Here is a more refined image of a Chauchat gun crew from earlier post. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gildwiller1918 Posted May 13, 2023 Author Share Posted May 13, 2023 More Chauchat images. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gildwiller1918 Posted May 14, 2023 Author Share Posted May 14, 2023 Another image of the Chauchat magazine retrofitted on a Berthier carbine for air service use. The use of high capacity magazines in this role was very common. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gildwiller1918 Posted August 30, 2023 Author Share Posted August 30, 2023 Period image of French soldiers at a machine gun course in Sapicourt, 1916. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gildwiller1918 Posted September 21, 2023 Author Share Posted September 21, 2023 Picked up a nice 1917 dated US Chauchat manual. 45 pages with illustrations. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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