what is the oldest service rifle still in use?

what is the oldest service rifle still in use? It's gotta be this or the Mosin(Russians)/Lee Enfield (Pajeets), with the SKS (Donbass/Charlie) and M1 Carbine/Garand/M3 Grease Gun (Flips)competing for 3rd place right?

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    ah the springfield one hell of a lever action rifle. This thing was great in Resident Evil 4

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      lol
      >up to 18-round capacity
      lmao

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        of course. It's in .223 a pistol caliber cartridge. Assault Weapons like that are always high capacity

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Talichads still using the Martini-Henry

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      They use musketoons still in the Central African Republic and bows and swords alongside firearms.

      true

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    They use musketoons still in the Central African Republic and bows and swords alongside firearms.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Would be more interested in seeing their powder
      + shot manufacturing prowess than the muskets themselves tbh
      I mean someone must have taught them how to do it

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        they use shotgun powder and mining blasting cap

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Mosin

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Well you have maxims still kicking around and showing up in various conflicts. Also I could’ve sworn there were Martinis being found in Afghanistan still in use. As for uniformed forces, BOPE has Madsen LMGs that predate the M1917 by 15 years

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm thinkin about those beans

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Somebody out there in africa or south armerica probably still fields Gewehr 88s or Mannlichers. Ethiopia has been dumping all sorts of weird surplus shit like Vetterlis on the market lately too.

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Kırıkkale M38, Turkish copy of the Mauser Mod.1903 was still being used by various village militias in 1990s. These were phased out as licensed G3 production picked up in the state-owned MKE arsenal.

    >Otomatik silah veremem öşşekçi!

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Sorry OP you jumped the gun a litte; who, exactly, is using the M1917s? and if it's some park rangers or ceremonial bullshit that hardly counts

  10. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Martini-Henry
    My DIck

  11. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Doesn't Canada still use the Lee Enfield for arctic patrol? I know they're phasing them out just not sure if there's a date.

  12. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The Sirius Patrol of the danish army is still using the M1917 alongside a glock.

  13. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The M1917s being used by the Sirius Patrol in Greenland can't be newer than 1919; the M91/30PU rifles the Russians were handing out to Donbabweans are from 1943 or later.

  14. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    there was that picture that surfaced some years ago of some brazilian cop with a fricking Madsen LMG, preparing to raid some favela.
    That shocked me. I mean that thing was designed in the 19th century. it's old enough to be one of the first full auto smokeless guns that were also man-portable.
    surely there has to be something else around, right? Like some stank ass AK or MP40 or anything?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >MP40
      it’s Brazil, anon.
      Cops in Brazil have more weapons available but the Madsen LMG provided a lot of firepower in a compact package.
      Also who wouldn’t want to be the crazy badass taking on favela thugs with a freaking Madsen? There are some soldiers and operators out there in the wild who knowingly pick older and obsolete weapons and gear for the cool factor.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >There are some soldiers and operators out there in the wild who knowingly pick older and obsolete weapons and gear for the cool factor.
        There was some American guy in Afganistan using a PPSh41 iirc

  15. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    the oldest gun in service rn is probably the mosin, but also maxim showed up again and remember that m2 browning is pre ww2

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >maxim showed up again
      I haven't seen a single Maxim gun in service that's older than about mid-WW2. The snow cap appeared in Russian guns ca. 1942

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        NTA, but the design is still from before WW1. No M2 Brownings in current US service are from before 50's or 60's, but we still say the gun has been service since 1921. Same with the 1911

  16. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Im thinkin' about those beans

  17. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Don't forget the M2, probably the most common and widespread of all ancient guns still in use. Other old guns are a "last ditch, only choice" scenario.

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