Mae's Top 10 Rifles of WWI
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Published 2020-10-12
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Mae has handled a substantial number of rifles from WWI so we thought it was time for her to sit down and give you her top 10 list of rifles from the conflict. We also rank the 10 most common small arms of the Great War.
0:00 Introduction
3:50 10
9:25 09
16:54 08
22:09 07
29:00 06
33:53 05
39:10 04
50:12 03
56:27 02
1:03:55 01
1:18:29 00
1:28:49 10 Most Common
1:33:38 Wrap Up
Episodes we reference:
Primer 001*: French Lebel Mle. 1886 M93
• History of WWI Primer 001*: French Le...
Primer 02B*: French Berthiers at War
• History of WWI Primer 02B*: French Be...
Primer 005*: German Gewehr 1898 "Mauser" Rifle
• History of WWI Primer 005*: German Ge...
Primer 008: German Karabiner 98 AZ "Mauser" Rifle
• History of WWI Primer 008: German Kar...
Primer 014: Canadian Ross Rifle Mark III
• History of WWI Primer 014: Canadian R...
Primer 028: U.S. Rifle Model of 1917
• History of WWI Primer 028: U.S. Rifle...
Primer 030: Italian Carcano Model 1891
• History of WWI Primer 030: Italian Ca...
Primer 031: Italian Carcano Carbines
• History of WWI Primer 031: Italian Ca...
Primer 033: Type 38 and 44 Carbines
• History of WWI Primer 033: Arisaka Ty...
Primer 039: Mannlicher 1895
• History of WWI Primer 039: Mannlicher...
Primer 046: British Short, Magazine Lee-Enfield
• History of WWI Primer 046: British Sh...
Primer 049: Greek Mannlicher-Schönauer
• History of WWI Primer 049: Greek Mann...
Primer 064: U.S. Springfield 1903
• History of WWI Primer 064: U.S. Sprin...
Primer 074: Russian Mosin-Nagant 1891
• History of WWI Primer 074: Russian Mo...
Primer 094: Serbian Mausers 1899 and 1908
• History of WWI Primer 094: Serbian Ma...
Primer 106: French RSC 1917
• History of WWI Primer 106: French RSC...
Primer 110: Ottoman Mauser 1903
• History of WWI Primer 110: Ottoman Ma...
All Comments (21)
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“Costs a penny; Shoots straight: Carcano” had better be the next t-shirt
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Now, of course, we want a bottom 10 list.
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For those of you concerned about the Mosin. You're right, I did make a mistake. I should have listed the Belgian 1889 ahead of it in that final list, and bumped the Lebel 1886 M93 off. I'm kicking myself for forgetting.
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I have a horribly abused M41 Carcano that shoots tighter groups than my pretty Swede. Not overpowered but 160 gr at 2250fps is still good for deer and Austrians.
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Mae's Top Ten Rifles... over One and Half Hours long.... such is the C&Rsenal way.
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Six out of ten top rifles are either Mauser or Mauser derivatives, quite an achievement for Paul Mauser's designs.
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as far as Mae's qualifications go, she shot the T-Gewehr. She's qualified. Case closed. What would be even more impressive would be firing a T-Gewehr from horseback while the horse was jumping a trench. I'm sure Mae could do, but it would take an exceptionally calm(or medicated) horse.
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"I hate you because of incomprehensible reasons that make no sense, and you dissed my pet rifle that I have emotional connections to for no good reason." -Mae Hater.
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Well, this wont be controversial at all...
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"we're gonna get hatemail" Dude. You're an internet sensation. Have you put out any episode in the last year without hatemail?
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The Ross also ties into one of the "could have been" weapons of WW1, the Huot Automatic Rifle. Fully automatic with a 25-round detachable drum magazine fed by a 25-round stripper clip, it was considered to have some advantages and some disadvantages compared to the Lewis gun, but was a C$50 conversion of a Ross instead of a C$1000 light machinegun. Five thousand were ordered in 1917, and perhaps only five were built.
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Watching the huge smile on Mae's face when she's shooting always brightens my day. She obviously enjoys the 'work'.
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"There are a few pistols left." Honestly, I can't think of any. Good job, guys! Series over!
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MAE: But wait... THE GHOST OF BILLY MAYS: THERE'S MORE!
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Mae is entirely justified in her opinions, even when they depart from my own. She has handling time on everything she mentions, maybe not mastery level but admittedly not all ww1 soldiers were extensively trained on the gear they actually got issued.
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It's amazing that so many rifle designs and so many one-off's within each design and all of them involved in the same war. The last 50 years, it's basically AR's vs AK's with sprinkles of 2 maybe 3 other minor rifles designs.
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I absolutely LOVE old guns. Yeah, new guns are mechanical beauties and the result of like, 600 years of firearms evolution, but you can't deny the sheer beauty of old wood-and-steel bolt-actions.
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I think the big take away I get from this, and the fine details May has to go into to picking between them is summed up in a line Lloyd from Lindybeige said after the Bloke (on the range) showed him some of his rifles. "They're all much of a muchness, really: they're all fit for purpose [...] In a wargame, these are all 'rifles,' and now I feel that is a perfectly good wargaming categorisation."
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13:04 "We are talking about infantry." - Othais *Munches on crayon "And I took that personally." - Me, a USMC Grunt
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Been watching for years, and you guys are some of the best teachers on the internet. It's great to finally hear some personal opinions from y'all. Thank you for the exceptionally in depth content.
