RSC 1917: France's WW1 Semiauto Rifle

I'm consistently impressed by Ian's ability to describe metal parts of guns, instead of "this pointy bit with a hole in it" or "the surrounding thing with a hole in it".

Seems to me that just handing out a few rifles here and there was a most useless way of distributing these rifles. The French should have equipped entire divisions with them to maximize their effectiveness.

That's a shockingly beefy bolt.

Whaaat!? Great video.

Fallout 4 combat rifle

Ian seemed hungover

“Something they are gonna be selling in an upcoming auction” so in other words a rifle Ian is going too buy at auction

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Unfortunately in many fields the French did not have the merit of their reputations which are due to them in terms of technology for a small country but with a lot of small working people was a time now all this is over.

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Perfeita!

With all the mass in that rifle,
It must have been easy to drop when running away.

Great weapon, ahead of its time!

interesting that it uses a spring in the gas system as a return spring instead of behind the bolt.

How long is that rifle? Imagine trying to swing that around in a trench.

It’s too much fun to make of france

If you look closely at the museum label it says "Dropped once, never fired."

Awesome rifle thanks Ian

Back when the French army wasn't a joke.

I need to watch your videos religiously

6 years later, Ian has taught us respect for French small arms.

This gun is a nightmare in Beyond the Wire.

Decided to look for its history.

I prefer the 1917 style of clip

Se parece un poco al mondragon pero con un sistema mas hermetico al lodo

fall out style.

this one is obviously a holdover from the musket era, super cool pioneer in semi-auto design

Very strange that CO Commanders would receive a state of the art weapon. Was this doctrine and true, or just a guess? Since WWII, if a CPT is shooting, the mission is probably a disaster.

This rifle has seen better day.

I hope they have Internet when the apocalypse comes. So if I find a gun idk about. I'll just watch you're videos and be able to disassemble it blindfolded

That thing rips ass in bf1

I want one of these so bad, they are so interesting and I love them to bits.

The French decided to dive into small arms research after they had their asses handed to them in the Franco Prussian war.

I actually did realise the French equipped soldiers with this weapon. Cool design and asethetics. Excited to learn about its performance here

who in the world is gonna clip the firing pin on a 100 year old gun

This rifle has a shockingly smooth sounding action

God before he said that there was now recoil spring in the rear, I was cringing saying out loud drop the bolt, drop the bolt!

Slt..."Armes oubliées", le titre correspond bien! Après Guerre, on a tellement oublié que la MAS/ MAT avaient fabriqué cette Arme, qu'on en est revenu à la répétition manuelle avec le Mas 36, soit 18 ans plus tard!!! . Merci beaucoup pour ce rappel...Excellente vidéo d'une Arme devenue très rare! Cdt.

This is like a proto M1 garand

BF1 developers: write that down write that down!

The Garand-daddy

it never ceases to amazie me that the US was the only country in WW2 that gave a semi-auto rifle to every soldier, when all the other combatants all had good or decent functioning guns that could have been refined into weapons as good as the Garand is not better in some cases.

“The French copy nobody, and nobody copies the French”
Well the first half is true—because the French, by themselves, invented half of the modern military. The second half is certifiable nonsense. Every military and their pets are organized on French lines (regiment, division, corps) and use French concepts. Such as semiautomatic rifles.

One of my dream guns

Why do old rifles have such long barrels?

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