Chauchat
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Oct 12, 2026
JC DentHOST
Which is, like, you know, a bit of overlap since, uh, Americans used quite a bit of French kit.
JC DentHOST
Uh, including the, uh, the, including the Chauchat which they took the genius idea to re-chamber and fucked that gun's, um, reputation to this day.
JC DentHOST
The French Chauchats worked well.
JC DentHOST
The, the, the, it's only once the gun nation of America took it in their hand that it became bad.
JC DentHOST
Um-
GabeGUEST
got Maxim machine gun vibes.
DuncanHOST
Wasn't there that strange French machine gun in World War I that had like a turntable magazine like the Chauchat or something like that?
JohnHOST
Yep.
DuncanHOST
It's
JohnHOST
weird that the clockwork goes into the magazine instead of bullets.
BrianHOST
Yeah.
BrianHOST
I thought the Chauchat was a magazine that was integral but it was on the bottom.
DuncanHOST
I can't remember.
Tom HoffGUEST
He goes forward with a reconnaissance, a personal reconnaissance.
Tom HoffGUEST
He's a company commander, and he brings a light automatic rifle squad with him with a Chauchat, and it ends poorly for everybody.
Tom HoffGUEST
So it's going to be four days of just unrelenting bad times for the 35th Division.
Tom HoffGUEST
And sadly, it'll end in a disaster, and they're going to get pulled out of the line during the reorganization that's going to start on September 30th.