The Fusil Automatique Modèle 1917 ("Model 1917 Automatic Rifle"), also called the RSC M1917, was a gas-operated, semi-automatic rifle placed into service by the French Army during the latter part of World War I in May 1916. [1]

Mar 24, 2021 · Modele 1917 components were fabricated at three separate sites and assembled at Tulle, St-Etienne and Chatellerault. Ammunition was loaded into the rifle via a five-round en-bloc clip, which...

Nov 17, 2015 · The RSC 1917 was not a perfect design, but it was good enough and the only true semiauto infantry rifle fielded by anyone in significant numbers during the war. Did you know that the French Army issued more than 80,000 semiautomatic rifles during WWI?

May 18, 2017 · This was a powerful semi-automatic rifle, and despite the fact that it only saw action in the later years of the war, almost 100,000 units were produced by 1918. Improving on previous similar weapons, the RSC M1917 was officially adopted by the French military in 1916, two years into the conflict.

The Fusil Automatique Modèle 1917 (also called the RSC M1917) was a semi-automatic, gas-operated, infantry rifle that the French Army placed in service during the latter part (1918) of World War I. It was chambered in then-standard 8mm Lebel, the …

Sep 22, 2015 · Modele 1917 components were fabricated at three separate sites and assembled at Tulle, St-Etienne and Chatellerault. Ammunition was loaded into the rifle via a five-round en …

RSC Model 1917 rifle is gas-operated, magazine fed weapon that fires in semi-automatic mode only. It uses conventional gas piston system with long stroke piston, located in the gas cylinedr below the barrel (formed by the former magazine tube of Lebel rifle). return spring is located behind the gas piston, in the rear part of same ex-magazine tube.

May 3, 2019 · The culmination of work begun by French arms experts in the early 1900s produced the now-largely forgotten "Fusil Automatique Modele 1917" - one of the few semi-automatic rifles to see combat service in useful numbers during World War 1 (1914-1918).

The RSC Mle 1917 was a semiautomatic rifle designed and adopted by the French during WWI.

The Fusil Automatique Modèle 1917 (English: Model 1917 Automatic), or RSC M1917 (RSC standing for its designers, Ribeyrolles, Sutter and Chauchat, who previously designed the Chauchat), is a French semi-automatic infantry rifle.