#needle-fire

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Chassepot Needle Gun

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The French Chassepot was a needle gun, here is where the needle would come out from

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Each marking on this Chassepot Needle Gun tells a story, although the details of most of them are lost to me.

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The long view, French style

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Seral number on the bayonet of a Chassepot Needle Gun

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Internal mechanism of a Chassepot Needle Gun

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Chassepot ready to go to the front

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The Chassepot was a “needle gun”.