Hagen autorifle

[Ingeniøren]

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Noen som kan fransk og kan gi litt mer kjøtt på beinet?

[oysteinlarsen]

Tek det ei side om gongen sidan eg blir aggressiv av det jævla drittspråket. Vel ikkje eigentleg, men somme franskspråklege skribentar berre _elskar_ å skriva snirklete. Vår mann her er eit døme på det. Eg oversett til engelsk i same slengen, så kan ein bruka det på den nettsida òg (eg er på same forum som han som driv det og hjelp han gjerne ut litt.)

 

An examination of documents in the various archive centres and the documentation of the French army permits one to conclude that several trials concerning semi-automatic rifles have been carried out in our country since the end of the past century. Amongst these one would find both models approved for service in our army, as well as foreign prototypes. Amongst the latter figures the Hagen rifle.

 

This weapon is designed by a Norwegian gunsmith, but several details leads one to conclude that it was made in Great Britain: the shape of the stock is close to that of the Lee-Enfield, the stampings ON and OFF at the bolt lock, pressure limits on the weapon given in pounds per square inch.

 

The experiments with the Hagen semi-automatic rifle by letter nr 308S of January 12, 1912, by general Michel, president of the High Commission for Studies of Portable Arms and Arms of Small Caliber, addressed to the Trials (ov.s.mrk: fr. expérience) Commission in Versailles.

 

The representative of the inventor had to assist at the trials and to bring 2000 cartridges.

 

On February 22 1912, the representative had arrived at the Commission accompanied by captain Petit, secretary to the High Commission for Studies of Portable Arms and Arms of Small Caliber. He brought the rifle in question as well as fifteen loading clips (ov.s.mrk: ladeskinne, ikkje magasin) and only 20 cartridges.

 

The representative disassembled the firearm whereupon he gave a summary description, and he fired a few cartridges during this presentation for information purposes. The firearm having appeared interesting, it was decided to proceed with a more complete set of trials when the announced 2000 cartridges were to arrive.

 

These cartridges arrived at the commission on April 23 1912. The trials of the commission were in part carried out on the weapon, and in part on the gunpowder charge of the cartridges. They were delivered in a report edited July 26 1912, and amongst the signatures one recognized commission member M. Chauchat, who three years later would invent the Model of 1915 machine gun.

 

Description

 

The description that follows has been intended to as closely as possible match the original report of the era from which we have taken large extracts.

 

The rifle consists of the following parts:

 

The frame (fr. monture - dette ordet kan òg tyda brillehus eller liknande), the bolt housing, the bolt, the barrel, the gas trap and recuperation device, the bottom plate (fr. platine - bokstaveleg tala "ei lita plate"!) and feeding device.

 

The frame consists of three parts: a permanently fixed stock attached to the mechanism housing with its buttstock and buttplate; a barrel-housing or handguard of two cylindrical holes circumventing the barrel and gas trap mechanism and to which is attached the front sling hook; and a covering piece.

 

The bolt housing has the general shape of a hollow rectangular prism.

 

Huff, det var alt eg orka i dag. Teknisk fransk er eit mareritt, men eg lærar noko av det i det minste

 

Eg må ta høgde for at eg ikkje er oversettar til yrke. Så ikkje legg pengar i det eg oversett.