CHAUCHAT Automatic Rifle

FUSIL MITRAILLEUR MODELE 1915 CSRG ‘CHAUCHAT’ Widely, and wrongly vilified as one of the worst machine guns ever made, the Modele 1915 CSRG was adopted by the French Army in 1915. The Chauchat’s predecessors had been in experimental development before the war but not adopted. The weapon was refined for production in 1915, and the first weapons reached French troops in 1916. It was the first mass produced Automatic Rifle to see military service. https://www.historicalfirearms.info/