{"id":3386,"date":"2019-05-18T12:24:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T12:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/18\/shooting-the-chatellerault-fm-24-29-light-machine-gun\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T14:46:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:46:12","slug":"shooting-the-chatellerault-fm-24-29-light-machine-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/18\/shooting-the-chatellerault-fm-24-29-light-machine-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting the Chatellerault FM 24\/29 Light Machine Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LIUowNjRNwE?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Preorders now open for my book, &#8220;Chassepot to FAMAS: French Military Rifles 1866-2016&#8221;! Get your copy here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\/french-rifle-book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\/french-rifle-book<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Chatellerault FM 24\/29 is an oft-forgotten light machine gun despite its relatively early design (predating the ZB\/Bren series, DP28, and Nambu LMGs) and very long service life. It was the standard French LMG for World War Two, Indochina, Algeria, and many small African interventions. It has a decent bipod, good 25-round box magazines, a front handguard for hip- and shoulder-firing, and a dual trigger system for semiauto and fully automatic fire. I was curious to see how it handles, so we took this one out to the range courtesy of the Morphy Auction Company&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>\nForgotten Weapons<br \/>\nPO Box 87647<br \/>\nTucson, AZ 85754<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preorders now open for my book, &#8220;Chassepot to FAMAS: French Military Rifles 1866-2016&#8221;! Get your copy here: https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\/french-rifle-book The Chatellerault FM 24\/29 is an oft-forgotten light machine gun despite its relatively early design (predating the ZB\/Bren series, DP28, and Nambu LMGs) and very long service life. It was the standard French LMG for World War&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/18\/shooting-the-chatellerault-fm-24-29-light-machine-gun\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shooting the Chatellerault FM 24\/29 Light Machine Gun<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":3387,"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-3386","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\/3386","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=3386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13668,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386\/revisions\/13668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}