bonjour
allways have a special relationship with the 8x50R because a Lebel rifle was my first illegal one when I was 14. later got it on licence with an amnesty.of course, I shoot it before.
You load your own hunting ammo with PRVI brass? what bullet, a .323 S hunting bullet? don't know if Privi make .326 softpoints.

what I ask myself is the legal status this rifle had in france from 1939 over decades when the military caliber was banned for civilians. We know this was no problem if the rifle was in the colonys because it only matter in the mainland. was there a special licence for such a hunting rifles in a forbidden caliber in this time?