What is the short metal protrusion sticking out of the front cap of a MAS 36?
It is about 3" long, what is the purpose?
Anyone have any links to good websites on these guns.
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What is the short metal protrusion sticking out of the front cap of a MAS 36?
It is about 3" long, what is the purpose?
Anyone have any links to good websites on these guns.
The rod that's offset to the right? That's a piling or stacking rod, used for making a "teepee" out of several rifles. Unless the French came up with some new and arcane use for that feature.
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Originally Posted by technova
I think you are referring to the bayonet! Which has a bayonet fitting. Push, twist, pull out. There ought to be a thin, almost needle-like bayonet attached, the blade having a cruciform cross-section. Reverse, push, twist, release, and voilá - there is your bayonet attached in the bayonet fitting. C'est la logique, n'est-ce pas?
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Patrick
I wasn't going to mention that, but DID think about doing so. Was going to wait for a response first....Quote:
Originally Posted by Patrick Chadwick
I know what a bayonet is.
On French guns I was told it was most often used to hang a white flag.
It must be as jmoore posted, stacking rod, seems like it would snag on alot of things during battle.
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Originally Posted by technova
Well take it out and have a look if you don't believe me!
I'm not really sure what you are talking about??? :dunno:
What am I not believing???
I know what the bayonet is, I have had it out numerous times and knew how they worked before I went to look at the gun.
You can take the bayonet out and toss it 50 ft away and there is still a "stacking rod" off to the side that sticks out the front. It has nothing to do with the bayonet or it's recepticle, it is part of the front cap.
I think we have a communications SNAFU here. A photo would have avoided it.
Apparently. I am/was confused by your posts.
We got a new camera and can't figure out how to get it set to a quality that I can download. The old camera had three settings.
I tried a few pics elsewhere and it took forever to load.
I'll post a pic if I get it figured out this week and then lookm at how to post them here.
If we had hung a white flag on the bayonet when helping the yanks in the war of independence then there would be no usa now.
The bayonet is the round snorter looking barrel with a catch on its side under the barrel.
The thin thing coming out of the side of the end cap at an angle and then turning and pointing forwards with an oval button on the end is the stacking rod / bar thing. Helps make a small tent
so we can eat our good MREs and drink our bottle of wine which cone with it in the dry and finish our 2 hr lunch in peace, and not get a hamburger gut.
If you ever get a chance to shoot a MAS 36 then do so, and you will have a great experience,
light, recoil is quite mild for a 30 cal. Great sights, I have 2, one in 30,284 and the the other in 7.08.
Good reply, and might not be a Wisconsin either where I live, :) RayQuote:
Originally Posted by read6737
I plan to shoot it.
Stacking the guns in a tent fashion has always seemed odd to me, I'd be afraid to have my gun out of reach.
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I'm from Wis too, did you sell an MAS 36 to me yesterday?Quote:
Originally Posted by rayg
[/Drill sergeant mode on/]Quote:
Originally Posted by technova
"This is my rifle.......This is my gun.......This is for shooting.......This is for fun......"
Now.......run around the company area screaming that at the top of your lungs.......
(The devil made me do it!):D
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here are some pics of the stack rod.
I was also curious abotu the small holes in the bayonet and recepticle. I thought that you would line them up and insert something in the hoel to reduce the rattling of the bayonet. After spending some Google time I found that some trainees got two rifles stuck together
by the bayonet and recepticle. The hole was added to later models so you could poke something in there to depress the release.
OK, all clear now. And the extra hole preshadows the tiny holes you will find on the front panels of disk drives, so that you can extract the CD or floppy when the power if off!
I wonder if those stacking hooks were ever actually used in the field? I suspect they were about as useful as the non-functional buttons on the cuffs of men's jackets - a kind of fossil justified only by the famous "we've always done it like that".
Just one clarification about white flags: At the time of the American War of Independence, when the Americans were aided by the French (isn't the name Lafayette familiar to you all anymore?) the French flag would indeed have been white - the Bourbon flag with golden lilies!
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Patrick
- Membre des Arquebusiers de France - so watch out what you're saying!:madsmile:
This picture is from an earlier time, but they are French troops stacking their rifles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Patrick Chadwick
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...nika1915-1.jpg
Yes, but those are Lebel rifles, not MAS36.
My question was specifically, did they still do that with the MAS36?
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Patrick
I guess stacking in a tent fashion makes sense when there are alot of people around, it keeps the muzzle pointed up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Milsurp Collector
why don't you get married? Anyway, just finished shooting the 49/56 and it beats my M14 and FAL. Very robust construction, not willowy.
Read6737, this is a Peugeot, not a Renault!
I have never shot a 49/56. I have heard that they are really good.
But I do collect Renault's though,
I have 3, 5 Gordini Turbos,
One is the last Cleveland cabriolet on the road in the UK, (now in France) out of about 100 ever made.
There is one more Cleveland non Turbo cabriolet in Spain I think.
As yet I haven't found a Peugeot worth keeping. Although my
work van is a Peugeot Expert, and my wife's little car is a 106
fitted with an auto bow and a 1.6L multiple point injection petrol engine, that might be worth keeping as they did not make many in this configuration, now 15 yes old with 50K on the clock.