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03-09-2014 07:36 PM
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I would like to find a "three shooter" carbine without the Post WWI upgrades. But yours would be better off with the five shot assembly, I reckon.
So what about the Lebel???
That's on my want list in a fairly large way. Even a mixmaster, if it has a good bore.
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I would have gone for the Lebel also but I have a Berthier.
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My friend kept the lebel because it had all matching numbers and he didn't have a lebel in his collection. Also I'm finding out how hard it is to find spare berthier 5 round mags for sale. They're almost as hard to find as the cleaning rods it seems.
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I'd like to see more pics of your carbine if it ain't too much trouble.
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Sure thing Vintage Hunter. Here's a picture of the stacking hook:
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Interesting. Looks to be from one of the model 1902 variants. The correct M16
upper band for those without cleaning rod channels in the stock would have a ball ended stacking hook on the left side.
For those that escaped modifications and still have cleaning rods the band looks like this:
Last edited by vintage hunter; 03-10-2014 at 11:21 PM.
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Thanks vintage hunter for the comparison. From what I have gathered, both on here and from the experts on gunboards, my rifle is an Mle 1902 " Indochinois" that was sent to Indochina as per the serial number on my gun (A 33288) and was supposed to be lost to time. Also they helped me with a dating issue on when my gun was sent over (original estimate put my gun and 2199 others as being ordered in 1921 but suffered from late delays in shipping from France
so it made sense that my rifle would have been a part of that order but not fully put together until 1926 and then sent over).