There seems to be some comments about one MG vs another, we did do a fair bit of comparisons between several machine guns we had on hand from the Great War in our Project Lightening series. BAR 1918, Chauchat 1915, Chauchat 1918, MG 08/15, Hotchkiss Portative MkI*, Madsen 1905, & Lewis Gun. ruclips.net/video/-hSZbo8Hvn4/видео.html
@@ecarlate I'm glad ya'll enjoyed it! Next time we're going to give ourselves more film and edit time on that, it could've been even more rad. Plus factor in sleep time, sleep can be important.
@@maewinchester2030 I watched it and enjoyed it. My initial prediction the Lewis was going to walk it was pretty much on the money. Lewis, every time. Especially with the aircraft side mounted extra capacity pans.
@@kentr2424 they meant whether bayonets and shovels wielding Germans would get into your trench or not after German artillery had pummeled your positions for hours. Unlike in video games nobody is ever running to their deaths at gun fire. You were met with the automatic fire of a couple of Chauchauts, you'd probably lie down and chill, and tell your sergeant about a couple of LMGs ahead and he would be happy to have a legit reason not to storm those French trenches.
@@leneanderthalien maybe a couple. It would make more sense to go after Lewis guns or other countries Madsen guns as they were far more useful than something that fires a single bullet before jamming.
Like the English Sten submachine gun, it was a weapon that was made in the urgency of the war... It wasn't the most beautiful, but the French veterans didn't say anything bad about it... The Sten was neither prettier nor better made. But like the Chauchat, it fulfilled its mission.
and even if it wasn't a really good weapon, unlike most other MGs of that time, it could be carried by a single soldier. so when you were storming a trench with a chauchat, you had a 18 rounds magazine fed semi automatic rifle when others that bolt action rifles
Once they're out of front line service (i.e. nobodys lives depend on their performance), they become the province of shooters and collectors. At that time, there's really no such thing as a bad machinegun; some are just better than others.😁
indeed, also by that time as a portable "machine gun" you can carry by yourself while moving in enemies lines there was the chauchat and nothing else but bolt action rifle, so that makes it the best options !
I don't know, if something like the daylight gun gives you so much grief just trying to reload the ammunition, then maybe there is such a thing as a bad machine gun.
Well the prototype from 1913 was an interesting piece but the Chauchat was designed for been built in bicycle factory whive basical tool and a lower quality of steel . That's not exactly a fine gun ... but it was massively built !
@@jameljay2183This is only the case for the version intended for American troops, the others were manufactured in arms factories with better materials.
The machinegun you have beats the machinegun the opponent doesn't have. And, man, did these deliver more than anyone cares to admit it. Awful, but plentiful.
It is arguably better than the MG 08/15 at being an automatic rifle/light machine gun. Say what you want about the Chauchat, but at least it’s name didn’t become synonymous with mediocrity in its home country.
One account I read said they were well suited to "flanking fire" and they always wanted more of them than could be delivered. American sources are disproportionately relied upon by english-speaking researchers, and this taints proper analysis because the 30-06 cartridge conversion was a particularly poor contraption. And one could argue the 8mm versions which Americans did field were scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of what the French were willing to part with.
I heard a story from a Vietnam veteran who also met a world war I veteran whom stated the gun was perfect for making a still for alcohol, not so much for shooting.
@@anonkig Because its crude but does its job...and anyway I don't have to use it. But sure wouldn't want to lug an 08/15 around over the battlefield...
It's definitely a gun you need to put in it's time. When it came out there is not much else out there to compare with. Sure it's not nearly as good as the BAR but it saw service for most of the war rather then almost missing the war. They are a bit like shooting from a roller coaster and unique. I hope you get a chance to shoot one some day.
Quantity don't mean a damn if they don't work right. One of my cousins was one of the guys needlessly killed when his M16 jammed due to the wrong powder being used.
Probably would've had a smoother feed using ammo other than 8 mm Lebel, but the French wanted to ease supply by using the same as the rifle. I've heard that the rechambering for .30-06 caused a lot of problems, and is the primary reason for the Chauchat's dismal reputation among the Doughboys. Also, glad you avoided "the smack!'
I have read that the fit up was so marginal (the price of desperately expedited production) that replacement of basic parts often required a visit to the armorer.
That's not exactly a gun you keep .... It was designed in a hurry and throwed in the hell of Verdun .... After the war , the french had more time for design and built a beter gun , the MAC1924 .
Well, this is my favorite 1 min in all YT! I agree light MG but looks heavy what a beast those were for the French army and oblige for the vid Happy Holidays and Happy New Year girl and team.👍👍
@@samarkand1585 well yeah I guess you have a point but you know when you look at those strange LM that they had back then it gives you the feeling that even the LM was heavy but for this if it were 9 only it's light for sure!! Thanks for the info fella.
@@dimvalsgames9721 For comparison, the German MG 08/15 had twice the fire rate and a belt feed, but was also twice heavier, and more than twice as expensive. The Lewis was 13kg but is a clearly more successful design
@@samarkand1585 Αh ok yeah I love the Lewis MG as you said heavier but I did not know that it was heavier than the French and Lewis was a badass again thanks for the info.
@@dimvalsgames9721 lewis was better but way too complicated for that time to be as impactful as the chauchat: 15.000 were produced during ww1 for almost 300.000 chauchat
She's elegant, just complex enough to be interesting, and made for walking fire. She is indeed "one hell of a bouncy ride". Oh, and that Chauchat she's shooting is nice too. Happy New Year, C&Rsenal!
I got very luck, my local museum has a Chauchat on display. Amazing to see them in person. WW1 seems like forever ago, yet the rifle I saw looked great.
@@stompyrobotguy4376 *wooosh* yeah that was the point of the last part of the sentence, "yet the rifle I saw looked great." If you could see the rifle I saw, you would use words like 'seem'. If I didn't know better I would've imagined the rifle much younger. Time works differently for metal. Maybe I should have included "seems like forever ago" -"for humans."
Great for you and your museum, the army museum in my country which is home to dozens of extremely rare rebel-produced guns during Japanese occupation in '45 and Dutch agression in the early '50s, donated machineguns, pistols and rifles from WW1, WW2 are left to rust and dust in a poorly ventilated basement for nearly 20 years before they bothered to do a renovation just earlier last year. It always makes me glad that not every history exhibits treats artifacts as bad as the one here
Different doctrine at the time, you were supposed to use these with a team. One would operate the gun and the assistant would reload and watch the ammo. Was also supposed to be used standing and moving in walking fire (little mud/dirt to get into your magazines if you were standing.) Also, I am not 100% sure about this so take it with a grain of salt, I think the magazines were supposed to be disposable so dumping them if they were bad due to mud or damage would be relatively encouraged. Judging by their thin sheet-steel construction (basically have the strength of an aluminum soda can) and their cheapness, it supports the idea that they were supposed to be disposable. However, in doctrine, they kept the magazines.
@@dutchplanderlinde4845 The magazines pre-dated the use of the Chauchat in the trenches. The Chauchat-Sutter Mle. 1911, an air-based observer's seat machine gun, introduced the magazines. Obviously in an air-based role the magazine windows aren't a problem. In the end, it was simply that the tooling for producing the magazines for the Chauchat-Sutter Mle. 1911 already existed, as to why they used it. Also, you're correct on the magazines being disposable. They-- as well as the weapons themselves-- were expected to be left behind for collection if they were inoperable. This has often been misconstrued by some to say 'the weapons were discarded', but the reality was that weapons left behind would be recycled, and the difference would be considered lost to attrition.
Not one of the best: it was the only available automatic rifle in WW1, the BAR cames too late in 1918 and for example the Lewis weight twice and cost 4x more
just came across your videos is there a range/place where i could go to operate even a close replica ? i really like the historical aspect. thank you for the video!
It wasn't a light machine gun but an automatic rifle that could fire in semi or full auto. The point was to suppress the enemy, and be light enough to carry. It certainly has its flaws, but I can see why they went with it.
I see a lot of dissing on the Chauchat and while some of it is warranted, especially the American 30 06 version, the 8mm version used by French Army was a very solid LMG for its time. It was cheap, does its job decently well and most of all, there was an abundance of them. Over 200.000 of them to be exact. With the size of the French Army at the time, it meant that every 6th soldier will have access to this hunk of killing machine. The suppressive power through sheer numbers alone was a nightmare for the Germans to deal with at the time. If one breaks down, another 2 more were already there to replace it. That's why the French sticked with it through the entirety of WW1.
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I wonder why the designers did not go for smaller holes to indicate the amount of rounds remaining in the magazine. Indications at the spots where 5, 10 and 15 rounds would be for example.
Remember.....the front line there was dirt everywhere when it rain turned to mud. This MG would fail under these conditions as it was reported by those who used it.
They already had the magazine design and production capacity for the chauchat sutter from 1911. Also, it was used in a team, the open magazine helped the loader see how much rounds there were left. Apperantly it's also really hard to load a magazine without pushing the spring back through the opening, though the magazines where supposed to be disposable. All in all most french soldiers liked the chauchat, at least more then the Lebel, and the french field commanders were constantly asking for more. In the end 300 000 were made, compare this to 50 000 BAR's and 15 000 Lewis guns.
I think it’s hysterical to compare the shoulder-bashing recoil of the Chauchat to the smooth impulse of its contemporary rival, the Lewis gun. Mae looks like she could convince a judge to issue a restraining order against that French bad boy for all the abuse she sustained in this clip.
Ian from forgotten weapons said the reason why the lmg was hated was the americans tried converting it from Lebel to 30-06 making it prone to jamming and being called trash
He would have done better not to say that stupid thing. The Chauchat Lebel used in combat by the US troops was a correct machine for the time and a cheaper one produced in large quantities (like the British STEN in WWII), the US version being used only for training due to malfunctions following communication errors on the US projectile! It's just ridiculous denigration !
not realy, the worst was the US caliber 30-06 Chauchat who had a closed magazines... the French did never use closed magazines, but they Chauchat in 8mm Lebel work better...but the reliability depend from the builder: the best built was made by SIDARME, and the worst (and the most, inclusive the 30-06 cal ) from the bicycle factory "cycles Gladiator"...
@@leneanderthalienThe .30-06 Chauchat didn't work, period. That says nothing about open vs closed mag. If the Chauchat had a closed mag it would have been the best LMG of WW1.
There seems to be some comments about one MG vs another, we did do a fair bit of comparisons between several machine guns we had on hand from the Great War in our Project Lightening series.
BAR 1918, Chauchat 1915, Chauchat 1918, MG 08/15, Hotchkiss Portative MkI*, Madsen 1905, & Lewis Gun.
ruclips.net/video/-hSZbo8Hvn4/видео.html
the whole serie was awesome, thank you for it :)
@@ecarlate I'm glad ya'll enjoyed it! Next time we're going to give ourselves more film and edit time on that, it could've been even more rad.
Plus factor in sleep time, sleep can be important.
@@maewinchester2030 sleep is so overrated lol :) you're going to finaly make the serie about 80's movie and serie gun? i hope so, going to be awesome
@@maewinchester2030 I watched it and enjoyed it.
My initial prediction the Lewis was going to walk it was pretty much on the money.
Lewis, every time.
Especially with the aircraft side mounted extra capacity pans.
I keep saying this. Boy you look different in person.
The Chauchat: Better Than Nothing™
But not much......😁😁
@@kentr2424 was not so wrong as you think: the germans dif use captured Chauchat and did convert it to Mauser cartiges
@@kentr2424 they meant whether bayonets and shovels wielding Germans would get into your trench or not after German artillery had pummeled your positions for hours. Unlike in video games nobody is ever running to their deaths at gun fire. You were met with the automatic fire of a couple of Chauchauts, you'd probably lie down and chill, and tell your sergeant about a couple of LMGs ahead and he would be happy to have a legit reason not to storm those French trenches.
@@leneanderthalien maybe a couple. It would make more sense to go after Lewis guns or other countries Madsen guns as they were far more useful than something that fires a single bullet before jamming.
Most soldiers don't like this light machine gun. It is also said to be the worst machine
A minute with Mae will make my day.
Bastante precoz has resultado... 🤣🤣🤣
This doesn't sound good out of context
@@sgt.roachsanderson9639 You just have a dirty mind, that’s all.
🤨📸
A minute? Most last 5 or 10
Like the English Sten submachine gun, it was a weapon that was made in the urgency of the war... It wasn't the most beautiful, but the French veterans didn't say anything bad about it... The Sten was neither prettier nor better made. But like the Chauchat, it fulfilled its mission.
Exactly 👌🏻
and even if it wasn't a really good weapon, unlike most other MGs of that time, it could be carried by a single soldier. so when you were storming a trench with a chauchat, you had a 18 rounds magazine fed semi automatic rifle when others that bolt action rifles
the sten did the task it was designed for, well..
the chitchit didnt...
Don't compare the sten to the chauchat.. one is incredible for its cost and the other is a pile of cobbled together parts
Once they're out of front line service (i.e. nobodys lives depend on their performance), they become the province of shooters and collectors. At that time, there's really no such thing as a bad machinegun; some are just better than others.😁
indeed, also by that time as a portable "machine gun" you can carry by yourself while moving in enemies lines there was the chauchat and nothing else but bolt action rifle, so that makes it the best options !
I don't know, if something like the daylight gun gives you so much grief just trying to reload the ammunition, then maybe there is such a thing as a bad machine gun.
@@oleggusarov8514 that Madsen also technically existed at that point, but wasn't available in sufficient numbers to be particularly relevant
@@oleggusarov8514 The British also had the awesome Lewis gun.
@@MarvinCZ
I think the Lewis was probably the best of all the WW1 man portable machine guns, at least until the B.A.R. came along.
what i love the most about the Chauchat is that with some simple modifications, it would have probably made a solid battle rifle.
Well the prototype from 1913 was an interesting piece but the Chauchat was designed for been built in bicycle factory whive basical tool and a lower quality of steel .
That's not exactly a fine gun ... but it was massively built !
@@jameljay2183This is only the case for the version intended for American troops, the others were manufactured in arms factories with better materials.
ok
It was a very solid LMG.
Who the Hell thought that it was a good idea to put the foregrip behind the Awkward Half Moon mag!!!!!:/
The machinegun you have beats the machinegun the opponent doesn't have.
And, man, did these deliver more than anyone cares to admit it. Awful, but plentiful.
Exactly, and when you are trying to hold a trench you just captured it helps to have a stop gap until the HMGs come forward.
It is arguably better than the MG 08/15 at being an automatic rifle/light machine gun.
Say what you want about the Chauchat, but at least it’s name didn’t become synonymous with mediocrity in its home country.
One account I read said they were well suited to "flanking fire" and they always wanted more of them than could be delivered. American sources are disproportionately relied upon by english-speaking researchers, and this taints proper analysis because the 30-06 cartridge conversion was a particularly poor contraption. And one could argue the 8mm versions which Americans did field were scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of what the French were willing to part with.
They deliver nothing but a broken cheekbone
Pretty sure that once it eats some mud,you have 'no machinegun'
I don’t know why, but I have always liked this gun. The look and sound are amazing. Would love to fire one some day.
I heard a story from a Vietnam veteran who also met a world war I veteran whom stated the gun was perfect for making a still for alcohol, not so much for shooting.
Ignorant French bashing bullshit.
How on earth did he do that
That gun is so Orky it screams Waaaaaaagh every time that bolt cycles.
Dakka dakka!
It works if you believe it does
So... would this mean there are French Orks?
@Briselance
Yeah the Flash Gitz!
I really like the Chauchat, very steampunk too. Cheers and Happy New Year to you both and the team!
What makes you like something as sloppy as this, over.. lets say, an MG-08?
@@anonkig Why not?
@@anonkig Having almost a dozen of it for the same price? Maxim is a notoriously expensive gun.
Its not that I have any negative opinion on your choice, I just wonder why when there's clearly better options.
@@anonkig Because its crude but does its job...and anyway I don't have to use it. But sure wouldn't want to lug an 08/15 around over the battlefield...
Love these minutes!
A certain Arizonan gun historian is asking Mae for French .32 longue now after doing this video.
I see what you did there ... and I approve. :)
Great way to pack in information in a minute. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the video! This machine gun was also used during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1920.
The algorithm has delivered a delightful diversion from daily doldrums. Mae's smiling face behind a machine gun is always a minute to make time for!
Thank you Mae, happy new year to you and yours.
Thank you, I do love the sound of the chauchat
They showcase the most unusual pieces. I love it.
Sure looks like it bounces you around a bit! Thanks for the video, Mae - and Happy New Year!
Doesn't seem like a great MG to operate, but I sure love to give it a try. Happy New Year to you and Othias.
It's definitely a gun you need to put in it's time. When it came out there is not much else out there to compare with. Sure it's not nearly as good as the BAR but it saw service for most of the war rather then almost missing the war. They are a bit like shooting from a roller coaster and unique. I hope you get a chance to shoot one some day.
That not a machine-gun but an automatic rifle like the BAR .
@@jameljay2183BAR is a machinegun.
I was expecting more of a critique. But I wholly agree, if need be quickly in great numbers, this gun fits the bill.
great short with not a second wasted ... happy new year and best wishes to you and family
It may be bad, but it has character
Quantity over quality is not necessarily a bad thing in war.
"Quantity is a quality all its own" joseph stalin
Remember T34 ...
Quantity don't mean a damn if they don't work right.
One of my cousins was one of the guys needlessly killed when his M16 jammed due to the wrong powder being used.
@@doughesson sorry for your loss
Oh, I guess 100 guns that won't work are somehow better?
That ..... is a thumping machine. Thank you Mae for shooting it so we don't have to.
An yet somehow Breda 30 found a way to be worse... then even that conversion to US ammo you tested in PL. Truly there is no limit to human ingenuity!
Ingenuity is not always a good thing...
Probably would've had a smoother feed using ammo other than 8 mm Lebel, but the French wanted to ease supply by using the same as the rifle.
I've heard that the rechambering for .30-06 caused a lot of problems, and is the primary reason for the Chauchat's dismal reputation among the Doughboys.
Also, glad you avoided "the smack!'
I have read that the fit up was so marginal (the price of desperately expedited production) that replacement of basic parts often required a visit to the armorer.
That's not exactly a gun you keep ....
It was designed in a hurry and throwed in the hell of Verdun ....
After the war , the french had more time for design and built a beter gun , the MAC1924 .
Damn, that thing is bucking like an ornery bronco. Doesn’t look enjoyable to shoot. Love the Minute of Mae no matter the weapon. Happy New Year!
8mm Lebel has some kick. And spitting them out in full auto is a fun ride. God help your shoulder, though.
Seems as if you'd have a sore shoulder after just a short day at the range.
I left the latest Forgotten Weapons vid to see Mae shoot a WW1 machine gun!
It’s a Chauchat, he’ll understand
Once again, walking fire for the win!
Well, this is my favorite 1 min in all YT! I agree light MG but looks heavy what a beast those were for the French army and oblige for the vid Happy Holidays and Happy New Year girl and team.👍👍
9kg. That's about as light as you could make an LMG at that time
@@samarkand1585 well yeah I guess you have a point but you know when you look at those strange LM that they had back then it gives you the feeling that even the LM was heavy but for this if it were 9 only it's light for sure!! Thanks for the info fella.
@@dimvalsgames9721 For comparison, the German MG 08/15 had twice the fire rate and a belt feed, but was also twice heavier, and more than twice as expensive. The Lewis was 13kg but is a clearly more successful design
@@samarkand1585 Αh ok yeah I love the Lewis MG as you said heavier but I did not know that it was heavier than the French and Lewis was a badass again thanks for the info.
@@dimvalsgames9721 lewis was better but way too complicated for that time to be as impactful as the chauchat: 15.000 were produced during ww1 for almost 300.000 chauchat
Thanks for sharing and Happy New Year to you and your family.
She's elegant, just complex enough to be interesting, and made for walking fire. She is indeed "one hell of a bouncy ride".
Oh, and that Chauchat she's shooting is nice too.
Happy New Year, C&Rsenal!
I got very luck, my local museum has a Chauchat on display. Amazing to see them in person. WW1 seems like forever ago, yet the rifle I saw looked great.
"Seems like" - it was over 100 years ago. That is definitely a long time.
@@stompyrobotguy4376 *wooosh* yeah that was the point of the last part of the sentence, "yet the rifle I saw looked great." If you could see the rifle I saw, you would use words like 'seem'. If I didn't know better I would've imagined the rifle much younger. Time works differently for metal. Maybe I should have included "seems like forever ago" -"for humans."
Great for you and your museum, the army museum in my country which is home to dozens of extremely rare rebel-produced guns during Japanese occupation in '45 and Dutch agression in the early '50s, donated machineguns, pistols and rifles from WW1, WW2 are left to rust and dust in a poorly ventilated basement for nearly 20 years before they bothered to do a renovation just earlier last year. It always makes me glad that not every history exhibits treats artifacts as bad as the one here
Great video
The open magazine in the trenches? No one saw that it was a bad idea?
Different doctrine at the time, you were supposed to use these with a team. One would operate the gun and the assistant would reload and watch the ammo. Was also supposed to be used standing and moving in walking fire (little mud/dirt to get into your magazines if you were standing.)
Also, I am not 100% sure about this so take it with a grain of salt, I think the magazines were supposed to be disposable so dumping them if they were bad due to mud or damage would be relatively encouraged. Judging by their thin sheet-steel construction (basically have the strength of an aluminum soda can) and their cheapness, it supports the idea that they were supposed to be disposable. However, in doctrine, they kept the magazines.
@@dutchplanderlinde4845 The magazines pre-dated the use of the Chauchat in the trenches. The Chauchat-Sutter Mle. 1911, an air-based observer's seat machine gun, introduced the magazines. Obviously in an air-based role the magazine windows aren't a problem.
In the end, it was simply that the tooling for producing the magazines for the Chauchat-Sutter Mle. 1911 already existed, as to why they used it.
Also, you're correct on the magazines being disposable. They-- as well as the weapons themselves-- were expected to be left behind for collection if they were inoperable. This has often been misconstrued by some to say 'the weapons were discarded', but the reality was that weapons left behind would be recycled, and the difference would be considered lost to attrition.
Your narration is faster than the rate of fire of that gun.
Love these videos!
Always wanted to try one of these
I love how the Chauchat looks
When you Google “shit eating grin”, Mae’s face is the first result.
All things considered this was actually one of the best light machine guns of ww1.
Not one of the best: it was the only available automatic rifle in WW1, the BAR cames too late in 1918 and for example the Lewis weight twice and cost 4x more
@@leneanderthalien the Madsen was the best LMG. I've fired the Madsen and the Chaushit and used to own a BAR.
@@mikebrase5161 Madsen was way too expensive to manufacture on a large scale
@@mikebrase5161Madsen was still an expensive clockwork contraption compared to this. Chauchat is just a Straight-pull using Long Recoil.
Well, this was neat to have pop up in suggestions.
Happy New Year!
just came across your videos is there a range/place where i could go to operate even a close replica ? i really like the historical aspect. thank you for the video!
It just looks so funky, its so french
Good tight narration on this one Mae!
Love y’all’s video’s
It seems like such a crude weapon, something barely out of the black powder era.
Nailed it dude!!
I live for the MOM background music.
Do you think on can find a Chauchat at Shot Show?
Any videos out there on it area target grouping compared to others during the great war?
Curious mind want to know why you zoom the camera on your face in the middle of shooting! 🤭🤭
It wasn't a light machine gun but an automatic rifle that could fire in semi or full auto. The point was to suppress the enemy, and be light enough to carry.
It certainly has its flaws, but I can see why they went with it.
*Amazing video, Interesting channel!!*
I see a lot of dissing on the Chauchat and while some of it is warranted, especially the American 30 06 version, the 8mm version used by French Army was a very solid LMG for its time.
It was cheap, does its job decently well and most of all, there was an abundance of them. Over 200.000 of them to be exact. With the size of the French Army at the time, it meant that every 6th soldier will have access to this hunk of killing machine. The suppressive power through sheer numbers alone was a nightmare for the Germans to deal with at the time. If one breaks down, another 2 more were already there to replace it. That's why the French sticked with it through the entirety of WW1.
The sight modification to set both fore and rear sight further to the left is a Finnish one and was introduced in year 1940.
Wonder how many were issued in each platoon,useful in the oppos trench
"a bouncy ride" had me in stitches... 😆
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I wonder why the designers did not go for smaller holes to indicate the amount of rounds remaining in the magazine. Indications at the spots where 5, 10 and 15 rounds would be for example.
Just AWESOME
Remember.....the front line there was dirt everywhere when it rain turned to mud. This MG would fail under these conditions as it was reported by those who used it.
Despite that it was a real advantage for allied forces despite it's numerous flaws
Where can one get with such a return?
Why did they go with open magazines when they were having issues with mud?
They already had the magazine design and production capacity for the chauchat sutter from 1911. Also, it was used in a team, the open magazine helped the loader see how much rounds there were left. Apperantly it's also really hard to load a magazine without pushing the spring back through the opening, though the magazines where supposed to be disposable.
All in all most french soldiers liked the chauchat, at least more then the Lebel, and the french field commanders were constantly asking for more.
In the end 300 000 were made, compare this to 50 000 BAR's and 15 000 Lewis guns.
Walking fire mae made my day
Yay, Mae!
Im still jealous that Ian managed to get the Chauchat as his bride
Did Star Wars get it's gun design inspiration from french guns? They have the same vibe
did it not have have interchangeable parts?
How to turn off the dishwasher voice ? I want listen the gun sound
I think those seven shots Mae did are the most I've ever seen one fire in a row without jamming.
Might have a horrible reputation, but it still looks fun!
I think it’s hysterical to compare the shoulder-bashing recoil of the Chauchat to the smooth impulse of its contemporary rival, the Lewis gun. Mae looks like she could convince a judge to issue a restraining order against that French bad boy for all the abuse she sustained in this clip.
You can built 3 or 4 Chauchat for the time and money spend on an Lewis gun .
Think about it
@@druisteen 15.000 lewis gun for almost 300.000 chauchat actually by 1918
the Lewis cost 4x more and weight twice, so absolutly not comparable
Em uma guerra, não iria querer estar sobre sua mira. Parabéns pelos vídeos! Excelente canal. Sucesso!
Awesome, thanks
I had a chance to hold one of these and can say if you are left handed you are not using the sights.
i recently finished a cardboard chauchat while watching the documentary about the weapon from this channel
Ian from forgotten weapons said the reason why the lmg was hated was the americans tried converting it from Lebel to 30-06 making it prone to jamming and being called trash
Nice Euro guns you have there in the US. Where can I shoot it in Europe?
It’s interesting to me that both c&rsenal and Ian McCollum have been giving the Chauchat a partial rehabilitation in recent years.
Wow. That's some recoil man!!
The Chochaut proves that French military devices are either god tier advanced or orc tech that works entirely on how it’s feeling that day.
So, no one considered enclosing the magazine?
The only LMG I want. Gimme gimme gimme
I loved this gun in BF1. Also I feel very sorry for your shoulder lol.
A US historian once said that the Chauchat was the single worse firearm inflicted on the US soldier.
He would have done better not to say that stupid thing. The Chauchat Lebel used in combat by the US troops was a correct machine for the time and a cheaper one produced in large quantities (like the British STEN in WWII), the US version being used only for training due to malfunctions following communication errors on the US projectile! It's just ridiculous denigration !
He would be right about the US conversion but this is the French version. Not quite that bad.
The US version was bad. The french one was the first mass produced LMG and did give a lot more firepower to french platoons.
This is why Browning created the BAR ! 🤣
“How would you sum up the service record of the CSRG?”
“Eh, it was Sho-sho”
The Chauchat gets a lot of grief, but it still sounds cool.
It’s way more practical to use it as a semi automatic rifle in the trenches that as a machine gun because it holds 20 rounds but put 18 in
The weapon that you have is better then the one you don't
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I always liked those. If they didn’t have the exposed mag, they would have been MUCH more reliable
not realy, the worst was the US caliber 30-06 Chauchat who had a closed magazines... the French did never use closed magazines, but they Chauchat in 8mm Lebel work better...but the reliability depend from the builder: the best built was made by SIDARME, and the worst (and the most, inclusive the 30-06 cal ) from the bicycle factory "cycles Gladiator"...
@@leneanderthalienThe .30-06 Chauchat didn't work, period. That says nothing about open vs closed mag. If the Chauchat had a closed mag it would have been the best LMG of WW1.
What about the mg 15
What cal. is the thing?!
8x51mm Lebel
Double your pleasure double your fun... I for one would like to see 2 minute of May......
It's nice to know that BFV got the sound of this weapon right.