m1874/80 gras family heirloom

[capt14k]

What is a fair price for the Lebel's I posted earlier in thread? I can't find ammo for them and I have too many calibers as it is so I figure I will sell them.

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[desdem12]

SELL? I heard something like someone was gonna sell something? Call me interested

[capt14k]

SELL? I heard something like someone was gonna sell something? Call me interested [emoji106] [emoji38]

I shoot what I collect and I can't find any 8mm Lebel Rifle ammo. Plus I don't think I want to stock another rifle round. I just need to find out what they are worth. If you have a price in mind PM me an offer. The worst I can say is no.

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[capt14k]

It is not unusual to find French milsurps that date from the Great War or before that are mismatched. Losses were huge during the war and they were combing the battlefields for rifles, parts were salvaged and used to piece together usable rifles with no regard to matching any numbers. We lost over 58,000 men in a dozen years of Vietnam, the British lost that on the first day of the Somme in 1916. The Great War was a huge meat grinder that chewed up people and material at a mind boggling rate.

I need to spend more time looking at numbers. Turns out they are both matching Barrel, butt stock, and fore stock. The one without the receiver markings also has a matching floor plate.

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[Junk Yard Dog]

What you would expect, things like the bolt are the most likely places to need minor repair and can be fixed the fastest by a quick bolt swap in the field. I have seen everything from full matching to only barrel and receiver matching in French Great War era arms.