{"id":22617,"date":"2016-11-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/18\/french-c6-long-recoil-prototype-semiauto-rifle\/"},"modified":"2016-11-18T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T12:00:00","slug":"french-c6-long-recoil-prototype-semiauto-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/18\/french-c6-long-recoil-prototype-semiauto-rifle\/","title":{"rendered":"French C6 Long-Recoil Prototype Semiauto Rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DkdD_xKFOJ8?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons Merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>France began working on developing military self-loading rifles virtually as soon as the 1886 Lebel was adopted, and they would pursue a pretty elaborate series of trials right up to World War I. One series was developed by Etienne Meunier at the Artillery Technical Section using gas operated mechanisms, and designated the A series. The B series was the work of M. Rossignol at the Musketry School, using mostly direct gas impingement systems. The C series was designed by Louis Chauchat and M. Sutter at the Puteaux Arsenal, and these were long-recoil actions. Trials commenced in 1911 and 1912 on the latest rifles from each series, and ultimately none was judged really ready for military service &#8211; although the A6 Meunier would be produced in small numbers (about a thousand) and issued in 1916.<\/p>\n<p>This particular rifle is a C6, from Chauchat and Sutter. The C7 was in the formal testing, and this C6 is a very similar rifle. It uses a long recoil action, a unique locking system with two pivoting locking lugs somewhat similar to the Kjellman system, and a remarkably powerful 7mm rimless cartridge fed from 6-round Mannlicher type clips. It was deemed too complicated at trial, not surprisingly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related:<\/p>\n<p>M1915 Chauchat Automatic Rifle: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bCwP3Dm52Ls<br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bCwP3Dm52Ls<br<\/a> \/>M14 Gras Conversion to 8mm Lebel: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0oDYvMJxn0A<br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0oDYvMJxn0A<br<\/a> \/>French Rolling Block in 8mm Lebel: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wZhwlcswmys<br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wZhwlcswmys<br<\/a> \/>RSC 1917 Semiauto Rifle: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BQan6gn37A4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BQan6gn37A4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons Merch! http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons France began working on developing military self-loading rifles virtually as soon as the 1886 Lebel was adopted, and they would pursue a pretty elaborate series of trials right up to World War I. One series was developed by Etienne Meunier at the Artillery Technical Section using gas operated mechanisms, and&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/18\/french-c6-long-recoil-prototype-semiauto-rifle\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">French C6 Long-Recoil Prototype Semiauto Rifle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":22618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}