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French Marine Commando 2-Gun: CETME-B & MAC-50 (Ad-free)
🕑 Added 2025-09-13 12:00:02 +0000 UTCThere is a well-documented incident of the French intercepting a couple hundred CETME-B rifles being smuggled to the FLN in Algeria, and putting them into service with the Marine Commandos. I managed to get a CETME-B parts kit and have it built into a complete rifle (thanks, Parabellum Combat Systems!) and I figured that a 2-Gun match would be a good place to try it out, complete with French lizard camo and a MAC-50 pistol. And it turned out it performed great!
The CETME-B is a really neat developmental step on the path that led to the G3 rifle. I'll have a full video on the rifle coming later.
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Squid556
That cetme lookin very STG44
Bruce Brodnax
I remember seeing some (unknown to me at the time, 308 Cetme) ammo for sale at an absurdly cheap price some 30+ years ago; advertised as "Santa Barbara .308Win" w/ a 115gr bullet "will not run in semiautos." What a find that would have been to sell off to cartridge collectors today, eh? Or to run an unaltered CETME-B for comparison purposes. Ah well, lost opportunities & the cost of information, amirite? Thank you for all that you've done to share those lost historical trinkets, even if that knowledge now lends a tinge of regret! 😄😉👍
