Lose 10% of your population in five years and see how your morale holds up.įriend of mine is a recent FFL veteran of Afghanistan, and I've been over there while stationed in Italy. I'm no fan of the French gov't at most times, but the French army isn't and has never been (even in WW2) full of cowards. Pershing tried to get every single US troop equipped with a pistol whenever possible after touring the front before our guys showed up, he learned from the French and British experience.Īt the time, and for over a century, the French army was the leader in the field with tactics, weaponry, etc (they invented smokeless powder, remember.AND were the first to adopt the magazine rifle). The Savages, Rubies, etc were better than no pistol at all. 30 caliber spear.they did the best they could with what they had. I think the Colts will have a higher upper end than the Savages when you get into Collector Status. Same reason they kept their trenches very spartan "Want better? Go take it from them!"Ĭonsidering the generally messed up logistics situation with the Lebels and Berthiers and the fact that everyone knew at trench distances, a semiauto pistol in any caliber beat trying to stab a guy with a. Their insistence on bayonets was meant to keep the men aggressive, attacking and not tolerant of the Germans holding French soil. After the war their country was so devastated, the MAS36 was better than no rifles at all and at least they updated the caliber.
Budgetary reasons kept it from happening, and during the war anything that went bang was better than a sharp stick. Actually, the French were trying to get a semiauto infantry rifle adopted before the war.
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