WWI Carbines

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Does anyone know if any carbines were used during the first world war? I know that many armies switched to shorter weapons during World War II but I'm a little fuzzy on weaponry during the mid/late 1910's . Thanks!
 
Some armies did issue carbines, usually to horse troops, artillery, military police and the like.

The Brit's SMLE was designed as a Short rifle that could be issued to both infantry and cavalry. The Berthier started as a carbine design and then a full length infantry rifle based on the carbine was introduced.

BSW
 
There was a cavalry version of the Krag still in use at that time, the Thompson would be considered a carbine.
 
And the Germans had their Karabiner 98a (shortened version of the Gewehr 98).

I suspect if you look up the different infantry rifles that were issued in WWI most of them have carbine versions.

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My friend has an M1899 Krag that's a carbine (actual, not sporterized) from 1901.

I don't see why these couldn't have been used in WWI.
 
The k98 he is talking about is the storm trooper rifle its a shorter handier gewehr 98, and the italians had thier 1891 carbine during ww1, also the winchester mdl 10 could i guess be a carbine it was used by french and some british.
 
You'd be wrong, then. Shortened 98a models were used by the Storm Troopers. I've got a friend that has one.
 
M1 carbine was adopted nearly a quarter century after the Treaty of Versailles, so it wasn't around during WWI.

One rifle I have always wanted to some degree but pass on every time I find one is the French M16 (8mm Lebel) Berthier carbine. I would love to have one but it seems the ammunition is scarce.
 
07 Winchester was used by British, French & Russians. We used it during the Mexican Expedition prior to WWI. The Russians loved them so much they ordered about 1.5 million rounds of ammo.
 
Krags saw very little use in WWI. Early in America's involvement a small unit of chemical troops armed with krags got into a scrap with some germans. Other then that Krags stayed stateside due to every 1903 and 1917 going over seas.

In WWII, US chemical were armed with 1917s early in the war.

The US went with a standard rifle. The Germans, Austrians, French, Italians, and the Russians had carbines. The Russians fielded the mallest number out of the whole group.
 
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