Original German / French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Converted to Carbine - Dated 1873 Snider Rifle due in part to lack

due in part to lack of initiative by the American corps commander

these were intended as "Cargo Parachutes" just like were used at Arnhem in "A Bridge Too Far"

No Magazines exported outside the USA

The FN Model 1903 is based on the same mechanical design as the Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless

Original German / French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Converted to Carbine - Dated 1873 Snider Rifle due in part to lackOriginal Item: Only One Available. Despite the fact that the French needle fire Chassepot rifle was far superior to the needle fire Prussian Dreyse rifle, the French took a swift and decisive beating in the Franco Prussian war of 1870 71. After the defeat the Prussians removed great quantities of the new French Needle fire rifles, which were a big improvement over the Dreyse Needle fire rifle, the Prussian equivalent that had been used during the war.