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.
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?