French 🇫🇷 wire cutter for Berthier or Lebel rifle bayonet M1886

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French 🇫🇷 wire cutter for Berthier or Lebel rifle bayonet M1886

3D printed replica

• WW1 era
• The barbed wire cutter attachment - user would grab the barbed wire with the two forward facing prongs - fire the shot through  - the bullet will cut the barbed wire
• There are many stories od Dum-Dum ammo found in the trenches where the bullets have been reversed, but in most cases, it was done to facilitate cutting wire with the blunt end of the bullet with this type of wire breaker.

 

Pictured together with G.Cochard Paris wire cutters from 1915.

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