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Aptierter Chassepot-Karabiner M1871

Warrior1354

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Thought I would finally post something very interesting after a very long dry spell. With the shows mostly shutdown and working more hours now during the Pandemic haven't had alot of free time lately. But was glad I won this very cool all matching carbine a few months ago thanks to a notification from a collector friend. Was glad he told me becasue I was looking for one and the price it sold for, was more then fair.

If members here don't know much about these you really should becasue they are very cool weapons and my only piece of German captured war material I own. This was once a Chassepot rifle made in 1866 that was one of the millions of rifles captured by the Germans during the Franco Prussian War. It was cut down and modified to carbine length, re-chambered to accept 11mm Mauser ammunition, the bolt heads and needles were removed, a gas vent was cut into the receiver ring, a very interesting and unusual sliding extractor was fitted to the bolt, the bolt handle was modified and turned down, and a track was milled into the receiver floor to accept this extractor. From the reports roughly 275,000 were built into this confirmation and in service from 1875-1884. One thing I do wonder is what the cost at the time would have been to do this conversion I would find that to very interesting.

From my research and from others I believe these were in service for much longer then after 1884, because another one posted here was unit mark to a machine gun company. I can also see why the troops that carried them were quite pleased with them. They balance very well and the bolt can be cocked by your thumb using one hand very easily. But in the end these were a stop gap weapon until the newer Karabiner 1871 came into service. Still it's cool and one of my favorites in my collection.
 

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Pictures of the stock and bolt group. I'm also showing a couple pictures how that extractor works it's pretty cool.
 

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Great snag Jordan, glad you decided to go for it. These are fantastic little carbines with a lot of history!

Congrats!

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Highly recommend Storz's M71 book. He's got a whole section on these and the history around them.

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Thanks for the kind words Chris.

And I have two of his books but not that one you mention I need to get it for the Library!
 
Thanks for the kind words Chris.

And I have two of his books but not that one you mention I need to get it for the Library!
Yeah, it's a great investment. He covers Werders, Chassepot reworks, M71 and 71/84 with lots of photos and documents. It might be my favorite of his three books. You can't go wrong-- and again, love this carbine! Lol.

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I'll have to check it out. I wasn't aware that there was even a 71 reference book! All I've ever seen of 71 varieties have been breif summaries to provide some context for later Mauser development.
 

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