Yeah, notoriously unreliable. Although the original Chauchat was apparently alright (by the standards of the time at least, light machine guns were kind of a new concept and people were still figuring them out), it was the .30-06 conversion which fucked things up.
These were garbage, weren't they?
Yeah, notoriously unreliable. Although the original Chauchat was apparently alright (by the standards of the time at least, light machine guns were kind of a new concept and people were still figuring them out), it was the .30-06 conversion which fucked things up.
Didn't they also have an open-side magazine so they were getting endlessly clogged with muck?