There was a guy at the range who was generous enough to give me some trigger time with his Lebel!
Check another item off the bucket list.
At one time this rifle was so advanced it was a military secret. It was nearly obsoleted a mere two years later when the not-Mauser Gew.88 was introduced.
I passed one up 'way back in '94 when I first started working in gun stores...I haven't seen another reasonably-priced, non-bubba'ed one in the wild since then.
ReplyDeleteEven though I'm seriously considering selling out of the milsurp rifle market, I kinda want to score one of those, just to say I had...