Los Angeles, 1849 : there was no good road, no electricity. There were gunfights every day. Everybody spoke Spanish.
Basically, it was like it is today, except that girls had boobs, and boys did not walk around holding hands.
By a strange turn of fate, for a rifle produced in France on german machinery, after being surplused by the french army, it was acquired by a german dealer, proofed at the Munich proof house and reimported in France. There was remnants of army grease under the bolt.
French Army surplus 5 rounds .22 lr MAS 45 training rifle I recently acquired in pristine condition. According to the condition, it passed scores of years hanging on an armory rack without firing a round.
The SN indicates a very late end of production rifle (1965).
This makes it one of the last...