Talk:MAS-36 rifle

message: Says who?  There are several internet forums devoted to the MAS36 and its variants.
:The price of these rifles has risen steadily since the release of rifles from French military storage---someone is buying them, and enough "someones" that demand is causing prices to increase due to the limited supply.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.202.179.139 (talk) 09:22, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: "Not highly sought after"?

message: I added the qualifier "one of the last" because the bolt action M-44 and variants were subsequently adopted by the USSR and the People's Republic of China until replaced by the SKS and AK-47 variants.
--Cosmoline 06:18, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, the M44 was just a variant of the Mosin-Nagant so I don't think that's entirely correct.--Sus scrofa 13:43, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The PRC didn't even exist yet when France adopted the MAS-36. When they adopted the M44 Mosin-Nagant as the Type 53 rifle in 1953, that was a case of a major army adopting a bolt-action infantry rifle. And then there's the Indian adoption of the Ishapore 2A in 1963. India has one of the world's largest armies, so surely that counts. — Red XIV (talk) 05:55, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

text: Hm. The People's Liberation Army had used the Mosin-Nagant since the 1920s long before the establishment of the PRC, and the Ishapore was a reserve arm, 7,62 mm variant of earlier Lee-Enfields so I don't know if those counts. It seems  that in both of the cases at hand the two armies decided to keep old rifles, not adopt new ones. It might be that the distinction is unimportant, but I think it is significant that France decided on a new bolt-action rifle as late as 1936 even if the wording in question has to be changed.--Sus scrofa 11:44, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Last bolt-action rifle to be adopted?

message: According to the Smithsonian Institution.. 
Smith, W.H.B., Small Arms of the World, Military Service Publishing Company, 1957,
DOES NOT EXIST...The only book written by that author in 1957 was...
Gas, Air, and Spring Guns of the World. Harrisburg, PA: MIlitary Service Publishing Co., 1957.
The following is a list of said authors books...
Smith, W.H.B. 
Gas, Air, and Spring Guns of the World. Harrisburg, PA: MIlitary Service Publishing Co., 1957.
Book of Pistols and Revolvers. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Company, 1962.
Book of Rifles. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Company, 1962.
Walther Pistols and Rifles. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Company, 1962.
Mauser Rifles and Pistols. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Company, 1974.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.22.156.40 (talk) 01:11, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  False Reference 

message: According to the Smithsonian Institution.. 
Smith, W.H.B., Small Arms of the World, Military Service Publishing Company, 1957,
DOES NOT EXIST...The only book written by that author in 1957 was...
Gas, Air, and Spring Guns of the World. Harrisburg, PA: MIlitary Service Publishing Co., 1957.
The following is a list of said authors books...
Smith, W.H.B. 
Gas, Air, and Spring Guns of the World. Harrisburg, PA: MIlitary Service Publishing Co., 1957.
Book of Pistols and Revolvers. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Company, 1962.
Book of Rifles. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Company, 1962.
Walther Pistols and Rifles. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Company, 1962.
Mauser Rifles and Pistols. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Company, 1974.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.22.156.40 (talk) 01:15, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The Smithsonian list is a "selective bibliography" and not an exhaustive list; there does seem to be a book by a Walter Harold Black Smith named Small arms of the world: the basic manual of military small arms, American British, Russian, German, Italian, Japanese, and all other important nations, although Google books  has its year of publication as 1955 and not 1957.--Sus scrofa (talk) 07:32, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  FALSE REFERENCE