Chassepot and Gras

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Hello everyone,

before i start, i have to make an excuse for my probably not very impressive english.

posessing a chassepot on my own , i did some research about my rifle. in gerneral, there were three types:

1. the original chassepot (paper cartridge)

2. the gras (a converted chassepot to take brass cartriges)

3. another gras which wasn´t a converted chassepot (also fires the brass cartridge)

my question is, did they change something on the steel of the 3rd version, or was it made out of the same material as the chassepot?

the later gras cardriges fired hardened lead instead of soft lead. that´s why i´m asking.

thanks for reading.

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