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12-09-2007, 08:02 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Bucharest
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| Ugly French weapons... What is it with French and ugly weapons...its like they don't give the slightest consideration on the looks of their weapons..here are posted a few pictures of ugly weapons...If you find more you are more than welcomed to post them 
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12-09-2007, 08:20 AM
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| Another ugly one is the Chauchat (spelling), ww1 machine gun...
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12-09-2007, 08:28 AM
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| "Shooter"   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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 | As long as it does what it's supposed to do; put holes in the enemy, and accurately, I don't care what it looks like. The M-16 "looked good" but it took 2-3 shots to keep a man down. Give me an ugly weapon with man-stopping ammo and I'll use it.
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12-09-2007, 10:41 AM
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| I was unaware that a prerequisite for a functioning firearm was that it had to look pretty. Apart from the second photo with the little gun and wire stock, the rest were/are pretty good performers. Just like military aircraft, some may look ugly but they perform their required task with efficiency.
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12-09-2007, 12:57 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Kiwi Land
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| Nothing wrong with the FAMAS.
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12-09-2007, 01:01 PM
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| Der Crewchief   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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But one has to admit French bombers of the 1930s were not very attractive.... 
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12-09-2007, 01:02 PM
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 | In aircraft design it's completely different, it's known in the design world that; if it looks good, it flies good. While not always true the saying does count for 99% of most aircraft designs.
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12-09-2007, 01:33 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Escondido,Ca
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| well a Thompson isnt all that pretty either but it did its job
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12-09-2007, 01:51 PM
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| The Chauchat was ugly and sucked....The MAS 38 was pretty good except for the 7.65 cart it used, was well built and used till the 50s until the MAT 39 came out which used a 9mm but was mostly stamped steel.
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12-09-2007, 04:00 PM
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Unless you mean the Bloch 210, which kinda did look like a block.... 
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12-09-2007, 05:08 PM
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| Minister of Whoopass  Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Long Island Native in Mississippi
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| Heres the ugliest damn French weapon known to man.... 
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12-09-2007, 05:14 PM
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| The Pop-Tart Whisperer  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Jersey, United States
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| whew!!!!! I'm dying!!!! Damn Les, I hope you didn't know that on a personal level! hate to see what below decks looked like!
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12-09-2007, 05:55 PM
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| "Shooter" Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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| EW, EW, EW!
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12-09-2007, 06:41 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Colorado
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| Hopefully even a 7.65 could kill that!! 
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12-09-2007, 06:47 PM
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| http://www.nollesguns.be/Foto's/MAS%20Mle36%20R1.JPG The backwards-facing bolt says it all. tom
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