USED MAS 36 Bolt Action Rifle .308

USED MAS 1936 Model 1936 Color Blued/Wood Caliber .308 Description This is an excellent example of a classic French military weapon. Wood is in great condition. Metal is even better. Developed in 1936 the MAS-36 rifle was extensively used by French Army and Foreign Legion and Colonial Defense Forces during France's postwar counter-insurgency operations in the First Indochina War and the Algerian War, as well as in the Suez Crisis. During the Suez Crisis, French paratroop marksmen employed telescope-sighted MAS-36 rifles to eliminate enemy snipers. The MAS-36 remained in service into the Vietnam era of the early 1960 as an infantry rifle, often serving with indigenous colonial units. A very unique and collectible rifle. These have not been available for years. The MAS Modèle 36 (also known as the Fusil à répétition 7 mm 5 M. 36[1]) is a military bolt-action rifle. First adopted in 1936 by France and intended to replace the Berthier and Lebel series of service rifles, it saw service long past the World War II period. It was manufactured from late 1937 onward by Manufacture d'Armes de Saint-Étienne (MAS), one of several government-owned arms factories in France. Only 250,000 MAS-36 rifles were available to equip the French infantry during the Battle of France in 1940. Mass production finally caught up after World War II and MAS-36 rifles became widely used in service during the First Indochina War, the Algerian War and the Suez Crisis. Altogether, about 1.1 million MAS-36 rifles had been manufactured when production ceased in 1952.