Original French WWI Fusil-Mitrailleur Modèle 1915 CSRG Chauchat Anti-Aircraft “Spider Web” Rear Sight GWOT equipped with a rare bakelite

equipped with a rare bakelite housed point detonating fuse

The highways in France are usually good

There is however some lifting of the faux leather on the rear

while the flip up rear sight ladder still has markings up to 3200 арши́ны (arshíny) an archaic measurement used by Russia through the first world war roughly equal to 71

a legendary maker of optics

Original French WWI Fusil-Mitrailleur Modèle 1915 CSRG Chauchat Anti-Aircraft “Spider Web” Rear Sight GWOT equipped with a rare bakeliteOriginal Item. Only One Available. The Chauchat, named after its main contributor Colonel Louis Chauchat, was the standard machine rifle or light machine gun of the French Army during World War I (1914 18). Its official designation was "Fusil Mitrailleur Modele 1915 CSRG" (in English: "Machine Rifle Model 1915 CSRG"). It was mass manufactured during World War I by two reconverted civilian plants: "Gladiator" and "Sidarme". The term CSRG is made up of