Over the weekend I made it out to the gun range to try a couple new to me guns.
As my usual custom, with nobody else there, I made my rounds looking for brass. I picked up an unfired cartridge, but the lighting was too dim for identification.
When I got home, I checked the headstamp. .351 SLR & JBA. The web search turned up that it is for a .351 Winchester Model 1907 Self Loading rifle.
That got me even more curious. I did more searching. Per Wikipedia, the .351 was poduced from 1907-1957. And that the French military ordered 250,000 of them around WWI, and converted them to automatics. The originals came with a 5 rd. magazine, but the French fitted them with higher capacity magazines.
Never heard of one before now. Anyone else know much about them?
Just a curiosity.
As my usual custom, with nobody else there, I made my rounds looking for brass. I picked up an unfired cartridge, but the lighting was too dim for identification.
When I got home, I checked the headstamp. .351 SLR & JBA. The web search turned up that it is for a .351 Winchester Model 1907 Self Loading rifle.
That got me even more curious. I did more searching. Per Wikipedia, the .351 was poduced from 1907-1957. And that the French military ordered 250,000 of them around WWI, and converted them to automatics. The originals came with a 5 rd. magazine, but the French fitted them with higher capacity magazines.
Never heard of one before now. Anyone else know much about them?
Just a curiosity.