qsy-complains-a-lot:Mousqueton Treuille de Beaulieu Mle1854 1er Type - Treuille de Beaulieu M1854 1s
qsy-complains-a-lot:Mousqueton Treuille de Beaulieu Mle1854 1er Type - Treuille de Beaulieu M1854 1st Type carbineDesigned by Antoine Hector Thésée de Beaulieu, made by the Manufacture d’Arme de Chatellerault in France c.1854.9,9x41 pinfire copper-based cardboard proprietary cartridge, single-shot open-bolt falling-block action, lance-bayonet with 86cm-long blade.This carbine was designed to equip Napoleon III of France’s elite bodyguard regiment, the Cent-Gardes. It was among the very first metallic cartridge firearms employed by any military, which explains its odd operation - you must learn to walk before you can ride a horse and kill Prussians.The Treuille de Beaulieu Mle1854 used a proprietary round made with a copper base, a cardboard body and a brass firing pin and extraction loop.Treuille de Beaulieu cartridge 1st typeThe gun’s breech was opened by pulling down on the firing assembly, which served as a breech block, a hammer and a cocking handle all at once. The gun could be put back on half cock once a cartridge was chambered, but this was an extremely unsafe safety as the face of the hammer remained extremely close to the round’s pinThe Treuille de Beaulieu action, fully cocked.After discharging the gun using its long trigger, the soldier can open the breech and extract the cartridge using its brass loop.A 2nd type of carbine was issued later that did away with the pinfire mechanism, instead opting to sit the internal percussion cap directly against the now all-brass wall of the cartridge and igniting it with a raised hammer face - instead of the former flat one. This would render the half-cock safety slightly safer.Treuille de Beaulieu cartridge 2nd Type -- source link