Name that gun!

[Nyles]

The Ross was definately not a successful weapon. It was too long, too heavy, too complicated (there are literally 9 parts to the front sight) and tended to jam when fired quickly or dirty. It was an awesome sporting rifle, an superb sniper rifle, but it was not a good infantry rifle.

That said, the Chauchat was actually a better gun than it tends to get credit for. The American sucked, for sure, but that's because it was chambered in .30-06 when the gun was designed for 8mm Lebel. You chamber any gun in a round that generates pressures it wasn't designed for, you're going to have problems. In French service they actually weren't that bad. Not great, but not that bad.

I do actually know that one, but I'll give somebody else a shot on it.