8mm-Lebel Mannlicher Berthier M16 Bolt removal ?

danyboy

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Anyone knows how to remove the bolt from a 8mm Lebel Mannlicher Berthier M16 rifle ? See pic below.

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Danyboy
 
Loosen the screw you see on the bolt, turn up the bolt handle, and the bolthead should remove from the bolt body - it comes out in two pieces.
 
You remove the screw, and rotate the bolthead to the left. The bolthead will then pull out, allowing the rest of the bolt to follow. I do wish people would stop calling them "Mannlicher-Berthiers". Even my registration cards say that, but the correct name is simply "Berthier".
 
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Same as most french military rifles, remove bolt, drop gun,and run like hell!!

More French soldiers died in the first half of the Great War than American soldiers in the entire 20th century, and they died fighting. German losses were nearly always equal or greater. When the British empire soldiers were wiped out on the Somme, the French took all their objectives with minimal losses.
 
The French border on Germany.

The Brits were able to abandon their weaponry, retreat to their island fortress, regroup, and hold out long enough until the US and Canada (whose own countries were untouched my war), could join them.

The Russians could retreat back to their frozen country, regroup, and send millions of their countrymen into the fray as cannon fodder.

What does this have to do with Berthiers again?
 
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