MAS 36 question

[rayg]

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.

Good reply, and might not be a Wisconsin either where I live, Ray

[technova]

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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Good reply, and might not be a Wisconsin either where I live, Ray

I'm from Wis too, did you sell an MAS 36 to me yesterday?

[ArizonaBeagle]

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.

[/Drill sergeant mode on/]

"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!)

AZB

[technova]

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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.

[Patrick Chadwick]

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!


Patrick
- Membre des Arquebusiers de France - so watch out what you're saying!

[Milsurp Collector]

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".

This picture is from an earlier time, but they are French troops stacking their rifles.

[Patrick Chadwick]

Yes, but those are Lebel rifles, not MAS36.
My question was specifically, did they still do that with the MAS36?


Patrick

[technova]

This picture is from an earlier time, but they are French troops stacking their rifles.

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...nika1915-1.jpg

I guess stacking in a tent fashion makes sense when there are alot of people around, it keeps the muzzle pointed up.

[ferdelance]

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!

[read6737]

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.