Comments on: Shooting the Hotchkiss protative http://gunlab.net/shooting-the-hotchkiss-protative/ Adventures in gun building! Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:33:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: Ken http://gunlab.net/shooting-the-hotchkiss-protative/#comment-14884 Wed, 13 Apr 2016 11:56:47 +0000 http://gunlab.net/?p=5613#comment-14884 Chuck: I used to have 3 Benet Mercies and enjoyed shooting at least one of them. Spare parts were hard to come by, especially firing pins that were typically removed and lost if the gun was demilled. Feed strips were also scarce. They used a flimsy bipod and rear elevation support that were about as bad as the Hotchkiss Portative.

Ken

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