Lebel love thread (no mausers) if you post mausers you will die in your sleep tonight you absolute faggot.
Lebel love thread (no mausers) if you post mausers you will die in your sleep tonight you absolute faggot
Isaiah Green
Jose Richardson
Haha >no replies
There's a reason our rifle has hundreds of derivatives
Dumb bitch!
Gott mit uns!
Kayden Hughes
> Tfw your WWI services rifle is tube fed
Dominic Harris
I'll give the lebel some love. Got mine all matching and excellent 1889 manufacture a few years ago for like $850 at a gun show. Shoots pretty nice and fun to load. Prices on them have gone up a lot and I see them for 1000+ a lot. Thanks for bringing smokeless powder into the game and saving the environment.
Jace Wood
A better french rifle coming through.
Isaiah Young
Is it safe to say the mosin nagant derived from the lebel? Same tapered rimmed round and extractor design and similar bolt cock on open design and similar sights
Matthew Howard
A lot of french elements do look like they carried over to the Mosin. Honestly the mosin doesn't know if it wants to be a mannlicher or a magazine fed gun, as the follower looks like it was designed to push cartridges up from a clip.
Charles Scott
Swiss vetterli is better
Gavin Cook
lol wut? the only lebel derived parts are the barrel design and i guess the rear sight on the early mosins before they upgraded the sights around 1908(?), any other resemblance was not a first from the lebel or even the gras which the lebel borrows its cocking piece from
Aaron Russell
also 7.62x54R is hardly tapered, 8x50R is 13.8mm at the base because they just necked down 11mm Gras while 7.62x54R is 12.4mm at the base and they probably based it off 8x52R Mannlicher
Christian Baker
Love my R35
Ryan King
Go make that fucking G11 video, Ian.
Levi Rogers
french military is best in europe. germans are faggots.
Dylan Morgan
First Google result for "Mauser"
You better not be holding out on me, OP.
Camden Fisher
Why were the Berthier sights never revisited? The post 1915 version on the left in pic related seems like they would be great for allowing fast sight acquisition while still allowing for precise long range shots since they have that nice notch to mark the center of the sight for you.
Alexander Clark
Nice, prices on those have gone up as well. 1886 m93s five years ago were like $600 then went up to $800 like 2 years later and are now in the $1000+ range for good condition ones. Not sure what drove the prices up so fast. I guess they're not imported as much as the mosins or Mausers, but still.
Henry Collins
There really aren't enough old military bolt actions with really short barrels out there. I love how sexy they look, in addition to how managable shorter rifles are. I really wish some company would come out with newer rifles styled after old military rifles with 16" barrels and chambered in intermediate calibers so that ammo would be as affordable as milsurp ammo used to be.
Nathaniel Scott
>1880s
>Still having a fucking tube mag
>Still having a 90 degree turn bolt
>Still using rimmed cartrages
>Still having the ergos of a tree branch
Get a load of this guy
Colton Barnes
Swiss Master Race
Nolan Martinez
Sup fellow Lebel owners and those who wish they were.
Brayden Allen
kingsgate is better but
black powder
Elijah Campbell
*weighs 10 pounds*
Matthew James
what is you guys obsession with these shitty old guns? they are obsolete and belong in a museum at this point. you can get an ar15 for $300 that will do literally anything better than any of these guns
Caleb Davis
Aiden Morris
My safe is a museum at this point
Hudson Morris
I imagine it was easier, cheaper, and faster to take a hammer and notch a small channel in a thick front sight post than it is to form that blade
Jose Powell
Imagine a Lebel clone in .45-70 or .357 or something. I would never stop shooting it
Dominic Wright
I really wish someone would do this for most french military rifles.
Bentley Barnes
I just wish lebel ammo was more commercially made and available. Same with Jap ammo
Levi Anderson
Yeah but not that one.
Brandon Jackson
"Franz, come look at zis, look"
"Vas? Vas ist der Frenchie doing?"
"He has been loading silly tube on das gewehr for 30 minuten now!"
"Hahahaha! Vat a horrible gewehr!"
"Hhahaha, let's shoot him now!"
*loads en bloc charger in 2 secs*
*shoots dumbass frenchie wearing bright red pants and loading a tube for 30 minutes*
Landon Howard
meowser posting?
Grayson Collins
MAUSER FAGS GET OUT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Robert Ross
1. meowser is no shit the name of my cat.
2. save some for the rest of us.
Andrew Perry
T U B E M A G
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Aiden Reyes
Talk shit again about tubefed again, Franz
Leo Bennett
That weapon is a warcrime and we'll execute any man found with one.
Xavier Moore
Can't wait for that sweet release of death
Never been more hopeful tbqh
Sebastian Adams
OP here. For all of you faggots who thought it was funny to post you're fucking mausers here gtfo. You are so fucking salty that a Frenchman created the first smokeless powder gun in existence. Lebels have levels of class that mausers can only dream of having. To all of you participating in WHAT THIS TREAD WAS MEANT FOR, thank you.
Noah Rogers
The lebel was the best gun in the world for 2 years (until the Mauser 88) but the worst for 2 world wars.
Matthew Morgan
>Mauser 88
The what?
John Russell
Tube fed, extreme taper having, black powder adapted ass bitch. Btfo by everyone else in WWI's rifles because they were in such a hurry to get smokeless in a gun, they didn't stop to design a good gun or cartridge for it. Only thing lebel had was the very brief novelty/edge of being smokeless. The gun was no technolgical breakthrough, simply a clumsy application of a revolution in chemistry.
Julian Martin
Nathan Turner
literally no one posted their mauser you retard, there's just 2 that posted a google result hoping for what you promised in the OP
once you're done with those 2, finish with yourself.
Jace Clark
Have an m95 because even with all the issues that gun had it was worlds ahead of the lebel in design. En Bloc boi
Gabriel Foster
>mauserfags
come back when you have a rifle that can win a war
Charles Sanders
That's a different rifle though, we aren't saying all French service rifles are shit and worse than the Mauser is, but the lebel is
Brayden Foster
And yet no world wars won
>inb4 muh juiws
Mason Nelson
No Lebel, though I have a Berthier that ended up a Turkish Forestry Service carbine.
Its also nice to be in a thread where its not called "8mm Labelle"
Josiah Price
same to you, frenchie. find a buddy with a garand to help u out
Gavin Mitchell
Does anyone know where to find a repro lebel sling? All the ones marked lebel I've seen online are berthier sounds. I bought a vg lebel recently, but its missing a sling and has an aftermarket front sight. Cost $350 though so I'm not complaining.
Cameron Flores
Going to sleep now. Smell you later, fuckers.
Jacob Edwards
>tfw you got yours for $500 at a pawn shop
Front sight blade is missing though. It's been surprisingly hard to find one. Bore is almost pristine and it's a 1894 Tulle.
Connor Young
... And that's a good thing!
>that pleasant *thunk* when closing the bolt with a loaded mag
Noah Cook
Liberty tree is where I got mine with a brass buckle for about $25. Not sure if they still have those though.
Ayden Stewart
Germany+some autists vs literally the rest of the world
hmmmmm...