Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle - Dated 1867 Category_Rear Sight Assembly but the conversion turned out

but the conversion turned out to involve too much work so they were dropped

Curved glass lenses

“Do Not Touch

was built in 1930 and this gun was produced in small quantities from 1933 to 1935

This is a nearly exact reproduction copied from an original in the IMA collection

Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle - Dated 1867 Category_Rear Sight Assembly but the conversion turned outOriginal Item: Only One Available. Despite the fact that the French needle fire Chassepot rifle was far superior to the needle fire Prussian Dreyse rifle, the French took a swift and decisive beating in the war of 1870 71. In fairness to the French, the defeat was due to Napoleon III's foolhardiness in allowing himself to get captured at the Battle of Sedan and the show was then over. The Chassepot rifle of 1866 was a single shot bolt action rifle and