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Section 9: Military Weapons Subject: Krag Action Msg# 1055647
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That's true. I'm also looking at the 7MM Mauser. Saw 2 Spanish Mausers over the weekend. Both were used... hard. I like character, but these had enough character for a novel!
I'm thinking of getting a Brazillian Mauser. Those are also chambered in 7MM Mauser and in much much much better shape. yeah, the British are horridly slow to adopt anything new. Here I thought the US was bad. |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: The Spanish Mauser caused not only the US to upgrade to the Mauser-style Springfield M1903, but also caused the British--facing the Mauser-armed Boers in South Africa--to begin to upgrade from the SMLE to the Mauser-style Pattern 14 rifle, which would have been chambered for the .276 Enfield. WWI put stop to the British program and the P14 fizzled out, despite it being an excellent rifle, second only to the even better U.S. model of 1917 as one of the most fabulous bolt-action battle rifles of all time. It is a sad commentary on the slowness of bureaucracy at work in the British war department even compared to the American processes of the same type at almost a similar time, as the US managed to identify a need and actually adopt a new rifle a dozen years before the British. There but for the Great War the UK may have fielded a 7mm cartridge long before the major powers (US, USSR) were ready to drop the .30 calibers (notwithstanding adoption of the 6.5mm by many of the smaller world armies back in the 1890s). |
