Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle - Dated 1867 Military Art The set includes three torch-cut

The set includes three torch-cut sections

on brass cleaning rod with patch slot

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Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle - Dated 1867 Military Art The set includes three torch-cutOriginal 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 war of 1870 71. In fairness to the French, the defeat was due to Napoleon III's foolhardiness in allowing himself to get captured at the Battle of Sedan and the show was then over. The Chassepot rifle of 1866 was a single shot bolt action rifle and