Talk:MAS-36 rifle

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[edit] Last bolt-action rifle to be adopted?

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)

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)

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)

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)