What's the longest rifle ever actually used by a military?
Not the longest recorded kill, which is all that Google gives me, but the actual longest rifle.
Bonus points if you break it down by overall length with and without bayonet and barrel length.
prolly some arquebus desu
>>33357757
>rifle
>arquebus
I ask because I really, really want a stupidly long rifle without getting something stupid. I want a long rifle that was actually used.
Bonus points if it's black powder also.
>>33357754
didn't the Russians have some stupid long rifles with bayonets at the start of WWI because of some fucked up battle doctrine?
>>33357815
They didn't have much of anything for either war
Like 30% of them were unarmed and would pick up weapons and ammo from dead enemies
The T-gewehr maybe?
length:169,1cm
>>33357886
Shoulda specified I meant infantry rifles.
>>33357798
No1 MkIII Enfield with the 1907 sword bayonet was pretty fucking long
>>33357897
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_rifle
this ok?
>>33357915
That's pretty long.
>>33357867
Ahh yes the good old Zhukov unarmed human wave meme
>>33357754
Lebel Mle.1886 M93 with the epee bayonet is the longest smokeless-powder infantry rifle IIRC. Pretty sure older muzzle-loading rifles are a few inches longer still.
>>33357783
Jingals are pretty cool.
>>33357975
That's a big rifle.
>>33357754
I would say the American long rifle, but there wasn't really a standard, mass produced version of them and they weren't used by the uniform infantry.
>>33357986
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>>33357757
Nope. Muskets are longer than Arquebuses. And OP asked for rifles.
I assume either a mosin or the sten(still used in africa alot)
The mousqueton Treille de Beaulieu, aka rifle of the hundred guards, is over 2,10m long with the saber-spear bayonet.
Otherwise most french rifles until the MAS 36 were roughtly 1,30m long and 1,80m long with the bayonet.
>A good website in french:
http://armesfrancaises.free.fr/les%20fusils.html
Click on the pics to access the stats.
Longueur de l'arme > weapon length
Longueur de l'arme avec baïonnette > length with bayonet
Longueur du canon > barrel length
Longueur de la ligne de mire > length between front and end sights.
>>33357798
>really want a stupidly long rifle
>without getting something [completely] stupid
>I want a long rifle that was actually used
>Bonus points if it's black powder
So... basically you want a kentucky longrifle?