Gun bunny~!

Unfortunately with that weapon she'll shoot one person and the weapon'll malfunction!

Otherwise, a very nice piece.

I think you mean one bullet, not one person. ∠( ᐛ 」∠)＿

The Chauchat's reputation for unreliability actually came from the hasty retrofit to .30-06 from the 8mm Lebel cartridge that was done for the US military as they were entering the war. The 8mm guns had no such reliability issues, but the modern attitude toward the gun comes from the impressions of US service members who were using them in .30-06.

Luckily, us U.S. decided to make our own and thus the trusty BAR was born..lol

The BAR was not widely deployed during WWI, due to concerns over them being captured and the Germans reverse engineering them. The Chauchat was the most widely used LMG for US forces.

not entirely. As they later learned, large exposed witness holes on a magazine isn't a good idea if you don't like debris getting inside your firearm

Naw, that's not true. The 8mm guns also had serious issues, mostly due to one of the main plants that made them being a bicycle factory with no real experience in gun production (among other things, every gun they made had the sights incorrectly aligned low and to the right). Among other things, the 8mm Lebel variant experienced problems with dirt infiltrating the mechanism through the viewing window in the side of the magazine and had general issues with the magazine being flimsy and poorly-made (the mag was responsible for an estimated 75% of stoppages, and would frequently fail to feed the first round if it was fully loaded), had excessive recoil due to the long-recoil action, would jam up completely if fired for too long due to thermal expansion of the aluminium radiator jacket, had a loose bipod, poor ergonomics, and due to production standards of the time the gun required hand-finishing, meaning parts from one gun wouldn't necessarily fit in another.

Granted the .30-06 Mle 1918 was even worse due to incorrect imperial-to-metric conversions meaning most of them didn't even have chambers that were long enough for the round they were supposed to be firing, which would mean they jammed the case into the chamber and then couldn't extract it. There isn't much evidence the Mle 1918 even saw frontline use, though: 40% of weapons were rejected right out of the factory, and there aren't actually any images showing American troops using them under combat conditions, nor even a service manual for the weapon.

provided that you keep the weapon free of mud and the springs are not 100 years old, it'll prolly fire about 5-6 mags before locking up due to heat expansion

I should have stayed quiet xddddd

beat me too it

Go Gun Jesus go!

Oh man, that's a Chauchat. Now that is cool. :D Great art!

Lovely Gunny Bunny!

but...

That chauchat tho...

I recognize that firearm but for the light of me can't remember what it is.

WW1 French Chauchat, or Showshow.

More like ShitShow, amirite? ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

I hear many of the parts made nice little trench moonshine stills... :3

Thanks, I thought it was that but couldn't remember the name.

Why a Chauchat? They had major issues despite being a groundbreaking concept.

why not? sure the weapon was less than ideal in many ways, but it's still a cool machine

She's probably a French bunny.

Nationalism, you know.
You'd have to go post WW2 for a different French gun.

-Badger-

Eh, you've got the BAR-derived Chatellerault from 1924 (or the version that didn't tend to explode from 1929), which was good enough to inspire the ZB26 and through that the Bren.

Whoa, not that I'm complaining, as it's more art, but what happened to the rest of the 2018-2020 commissions? :P Big jump.

I'll post them slowly, but they are in the pile. Though these are being posted by a friend who's helping me, because I simply couldn't find time to post stuff these days. I'm always working with stuff, it's exhausting! XD

Sounds like a good idea to have someone helping then. :P You crazy workaholic you.

De pronto se escucha el tema de los intocables. =>w<=
Te rifas! =>w<=

Chauchat? Nooooo! She is too pretty to have her face blown off by that pile of junk.

Apparently that's only if it's the modified American version. (See earlier comments.)

The Chauchat. "Sworn by...by a few...sworn at by many"

Voted the machine gun "least likely to shoot anyone." =^.^=

Apparently the original 8mm Lebel chambering was pretty reliable, save for perhaps dirt getting in the magazine. It was the ones modified to chamber .30-06 for the US that had the real problems.

Nice gunbunny.
Unfortunately, That French Chauchat isn't such a nice gun. It was guaranteed to malfunction before you could empty an entire magazine.

only the 30-06 variant was an utter disaster, the French version in 8x50R was okay, provided the springs are good (not guaranteed on 100 years old guns) and you keep the gun mud-free the most issue you'll have is the gun locking up due to thermal expansion

I am told its fairly reliable in semi auto mode in the original caliber.

-Badger-

it was an auto-rifle more than a LMG so yeah it works when you limit to semi-auto only, it also helps with accuracy as the thing will just jump everywhere due to the masses thrown around

Of all the machine guns she could have used.. it had to be that one.

Gun nerd: Wow, that is a seriously old lmg. I beleive it is the French Chaucout'sp?' Used during WW1.

Also, lovely bunny..and lovely dress.

EDIT: After looking through the comments, am glad that I am not the only one who knows that firearm...lol

Oh, a Chauchat; that's something that is not seen often around here. Also, she still cute, sexy, (very) pretty, elegant and cool; good work. <3

Hah. As I read all these comments I didn't realize there were so many gun-nut furries. This is okay. :P

dear god a chauchat

Chauchat.

Pretty famous..or infamous...light machinegun of the first world war.

Lot of us gun nuts and historians around here.

-Badger-

This comment section is a testament of the good work of Gun Jesus

I can haz machine gun???? 🤔

Literally . . . Beauty and The Beast.

Nicely done.

Talked about armed and glamorous.