{"id":6792,"date":"2018-09-09T12:15:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T12:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/09\/8mm-m1915-chauchat-fixing-and-range-testing\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T15:00:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T20:00:12","slug":"8mm-m1915-chauchat-fixing-and-range-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/09\/8mm-m1915-chauchat-fixing-and-range-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"8mm M1915 Chauchat Fixing and Range Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HIFv8XUBB2o?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\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>Well, my 8mm French Chauchat finally cleared transfer, as did my application to reactivate it. This was a &#8220;dewat&#8221;, or &#8220;Deactivated War Trophy&#8221; &#8211; a machine gun put on the NFA registry but modified to be non-firing. This is not the same as legal destruction, as the receiver of the gun remained intact. The method of deactivation on such things can very significantly; in this case the chamber was plugged with weld, the bolt face welded up, and the barrel extension welded to the receiver. I did have an intact spare bolt and barrel assembly, however.<\/p>\n<p>I removed the weld holding the barrel assembly in place, cleaned it up a bit, and dropped in my new parts. <\/p>\n<p>Legal note: this was done after the receipt of an approved Form 5 from ATF, complete with tax stamp.<\/p>\n<p>Today I took it out to the range for the first time, to see if any further work would be needed. And yeah, there was a bit of tweaking necessary. The feeding and extraction are solid, but the ejection requires some work. So, after swapping in a better extractor, I headed back to the range for another test run.<\/p>\n<p>This time is ran great, with the exception of one bad magazine (3 of 4 being 100% reliable is better than I expected, given their age and construction). So now, I have a fully functioning Chauchat and three known-good magazines. Next up? Two-gun match! Stay tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy Forgotten Weapons, check out its sister channel, InRangeTV! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons Well, my 8mm French Chauchat finally cleared transfer, as did my application to reactivate it. This was a &#8220;dewat&#8221;, or &#8220;Deactivated War Trophy&#8221; &#8211; a machine gun put on the NFA registry but modified to be non-firing. This is not the same as legal destruction, as the receiver of&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/09\/8mm-m1915-chauchat-fixing-and-range-testing\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">8mm M1915 Chauchat Fixing and Range Testing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6793,"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-6792","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\/6792","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=6792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14129,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792\/revisions\/14129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}