Muzzle velocity of the Chassepot round ran 1345 f.p.s. The rifle was reckoned to have an ... it is a straightforward hunting cartridge. During the past 50 years, I’ve hunted quite a bit carrying ...

The earliest known rifle produced by the Mauser brothers, the Norris-Mauser Model 67/69, made in collaboration with Samuel Norris by converting the French Model 1867 Chassepot needle-fire rifle ...

PARIS, March 17. The Prussians have returned to the French authorities 12,000 Chassepot guns for use in case of need here. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

PARIS, Feb. 14. -- To-night is announced the death of M. Antoine Alphonse Chassepot, inventor of the rifle which bears his name. He has died in his seventy-third year at Gagny, in the Solne-et-Oise.