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Winchester '07 .351 rifle
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France purchased both the Winchester Model 1907 in 351 WSL and the Winchester Model 1910 in 401 WSL calibers. France also manufactured both 401 and 351 WSL cartridges (example headstamp: ART.W. 351 2 16 EOP)
France also order the Model 1907 with a bayonet and some orders in 1917 were full auto from Winchester. American gangsters were also known to convert these Model 1907 rifles to full auto with a Cutts installed on the muzzle.
Police catalogs still listed the Model 1907 police model with bayonet in 1939 and large magazine.
After WW1, France necked down the Winchester 351 cartridge to 8mm creating the 8mm Ribeyrolle to test in a new self loading rifle
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I had one years ago that I converted to 9mm by running a chamber ream into the 351 chamber, used a modified P38 mag for a feed device. I had to lighten up the slide but it worked fine...
We used to find the long mags around shows here, very big money though.
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Love seeing old rifles like these run. It seems like a lot of people forget about the early commercial self loaders, favoring military developments but these are cool too, if rare in my part of the country. It actually makes me wonder about old hunting laws - here in PA we unfortunately can't use any manner of semi-automatic rifle, so I wonder what states did when guns like these came out. Did they also at one point restrict repeating rifles too?
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Thanks, cipher...it was a great way to spend the 4th
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