GoodDoomguy
CGN Regular
Dear fellow French rifle collectors and experts, I'm here for your guidance and enlightenment again. I am hoping to buy another Berthier rifle from a nice seller, but only have a few questions before I commit. With the seller's permission (he is also as interested as I am), I would like to ask the following:
1. The Berthier rifle was marked M on the barrel. Can anyone tell me if this means it's modified for use machine gun ammunitions? And what year did they start to make this change, during or after the Great War?
2. The said rifle does have a year make on the action/barrel. The seller sent me many pics, and indeed no markings of the year make is there. It's very smooth where the year should be too and doesn't look like it's been removed, there's simply nothing there.
3. Can you guys tell me if this rifle is authentic and can pass for a WWI-era rifle? Or is it a post-war modification? From that I mean it's not like a Balle N Berthier, which has conversions done in the 1930s.
Please let me know if you can, thanks in advance guys, cheers!
1. The Berthier rifle was marked M on the barrel. Can anyone tell me if this means it's modified for use machine gun ammunitions? And what year did they start to make this change, during or after the Great War?
2. The said rifle does have a year make on the action/barrel. The seller sent me many pics, and indeed no markings of the year make is there. It's very smooth where the year should be too and doesn't look like it's been removed, there's simply nothing there.
3. Can you guys tell me if this rifle is authentic and can pass for a WWI-era rifle? Or is it a post-war modification? From that I mean it's not like a Balle N Berthier, which has conversions done in the 1930s.
Please let me know if you can, thanks in advance guys, cheers!
