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Chassepot/ Gras Mod 1866/74 M80 Artillery Musketoon Carbine. SN X3080
Chassepot/ Gras Mod 1866/74 M80 Artillery Musketoon Carbine. SN X3080
Chassepot/ Gras Mod 1866/74 M80 Artillery Musketoon Carbine. SN X3080
Chassepot/ Gras Mod 1866/74 M80 Artillery Musketoon Carbine. SN X3080
Chassepot/ Gras Mod 1866/74 M80 Artillery Musketoon Carbine. SN X3080
Chassepot/ Gras Mod 1866/74 M80 Artillery Musketoon Carbine. SN X3080
Chassepot/ Gras Mod 1866/74 M80 Artillery Musketoon Carbine. SN X3080
Chassepot/ Gras Mod 1866/74 M80 Artillery Musketoon Carbine. SN X3080
Chassepot/ Gras Mod 1866/74 M80 Artillery Musketoon Carbine. SN X3080
Chassepot/ Gras Mod 1866/74 M80 Artillery Musketoon Carbine. SN X3080
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A French Chassepot/ Gras Mod 1866/74 M80 Artillery Musketoon Carbine. 

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 39” overall, 20” 11mm 4 groove rifled barrel. Ladder rear sight to 1100m, bayonet lug on R/H side of muzzle. Bolt action breech with down turned bolt handle. Action, bolt & cocking piece stamped ‘M33815’. Receiver stamped ‘Mle.1866-74’ & ‘M80’. Figured walnut full stock with brass trigger guard & two barrel bands, steel clearing rod. Brass hilted long bayonet dated 1873 with scabbard and black leather frog. Black leather sling. With many inspectors’ stamps and dates from its improvements.

Dated 1873                                                                                                                 

In very good condition, good bore, roundel stamp on butt indistinct.

The Gras Modèle 1874 M80 was a French service rifle of the 19th century. The Gras used by the French Army was an adaptation to metallic cartridge of the Chassepot breech-loading rifle by Colonel Basile Gras. This rifle is chambered in 11mm and used black powder centerfire cartridges. It was a robust and hard-hitting single shot weapon. It was replaced by the Lebel rifle in 1886, the first rifle to use smokeless gunpowder. In the meantime, about 400,000 Gras rifles had been manufactured. The metallic-cartridge Gras was manufactured in response to the development of the metallic cartridge designed by Colonel Boxer in 1866 (Boxer cartridge), and the British 1870 Martini-Henry rifle. Those were soon emulated by the Germans with the 1871 Mauser.