French school rifles
Bloke on the Range
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From 1871 to the 1920s France implemented a number of schemes to introduced military education, shooting theory and practice, not only as a way to boost patriotism but also in a bid to prepare boys and teenagers for military service after leaving school. For this, various scaled down rifles were developped, ranging from non-functioning drill rifles to scaled down near copies of the service rifle of the time. In this vid we focus on a miniature Lebel-like rifle chambered in 6mm Bosquette.
We also take a closer look at the cartridge, discuss its origins and see what happened to it.
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