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Small Arms of WWI Primer 106: French RSC 1917 (Patreon)

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2019-09-10 04:00:11
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Small Arms of WWI Primer 106: French RSC 1917

Othais and Mae delve into the story of this WWI classic. Complete with history, function, and live fire demonstration. C&Rsenal presents its WWI Primer series; covering the firearms of this historic conflict one at a time in honor of the centennial anniversary. Join us every other Tuesday! Additional reading: Chassepot to FAMAS: French Military Rifles, 1866 – 2016 Ian McCollum Honour Bound: The Chauchat Machine Rifle Gerard Demaison, Yves Buffetaut Proud Promise: French Autoloading Rifles, 1898-1979 Jean Huon Ammunition data thanks to DrakeGmbH https://www.youtube.com/user/DrakeGmbH/ Animations by Bruno! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTkD8fyZRgT5icMbKeMFEbQ Support this content at: https://www.patreon.com/CandRsenal OR https://www.subscribestar.com/candrsenal Or buy prints from the show: https://candrsenal.com/shop/ Snail Mail us at: PO Box 80849 Charleston, SC 29416

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Anonymous

YAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSS, got home from work just in time

Bruce Brodnax

Been looking forward to this. Ian's videos of the RSC are great, so your deep dive into it will be a real treat!

Bruce Brodnax

Gotta say, I enjoy Mae's voice-over for the animation: not that I don't like the sound of Othais' voice [great timbre, my man!] but just a break in the sameness of Othais doing all the voice-over work provides some added mental awareness [what can I say, I'm a borderline narcoleptic; my tendency to drift off in long meetings is legendary!] :-)

Bruce Brodnax

@ 38:53 -- "still, it worked. Browning points all around..." Othais, to earn Browning points, it doesn't merely have to *work*, it has to work *reliably*, and become an archetype for guns that come along later that copy one or more of its features! X-D

Bruce Brodnax

@ ~46:00 -- Othais, they put the cap on the back because even the most novice of the engineers involved knew that there would inevitably be bolt failures, & w/o the cap on the back of the action you'd have dead soldiers whenever that happened. See "Ross rifle bolt reassembly" for more details on what happens when troops lose confidence in their weapons... ;-)

Bruce Brodnax

@ 53:30 -- "...only issue to one person in the squad." IE - they ended up establishing the same pattern that the Soviets would end up following in WW2 w/ the SVT 40, w/ NCOs having the surplus processing capacity [brain power] to take care of them & use them effectively. ;-)

Erik

When is a Garand. . .not a Garand? I'm thinking John Cantius earned himself a plagiarism point or two. . . Historical Vegetables. . .heee!

Tiger in man's clothing

The emphasis on technical skill as well as marksmanship to be an RSC gunner is interesting. I don't know about the current rubric, but when I enlisted in 1986 the US Army used the General Technical (GT) score from the ASVAB as the break point for various MOS. Even Infantry required a minimum GT score or 60. If you were to dumb to use a hammer you were to dumb for the Infantry. I wonder if it was because of the relative complexity of self loading rifles and the need for the shooter to quickly determine if a malfunction could be cleared now or the weapon would have to go to an armorer. I certainly know people who are completely oblivious to such concerns. "Muh gun stopped workin" and no idea why or what to do about it is not what you want on a battlefield.

Coatl

Great episode thanks~

Bertrand Ludovic

I sent you bio data for Meunier and Rossignol early this week just in case you do an episode on their rifles.