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    Posted: April 01 2017 at 3:49pm
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That must be one heavy rifle!!
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There's another video on the same rifle.
 
Well you learn something new each day! The video says that the reason the British didn't adopt some of these semi-automatic rifles (or another design) is that it didn't fit in with the tactics being used at the time during WW1. Which is likely true, but you'd have thought that the advantages of having a semi-auto at a time when everyone else had bolt actions would be obvious and tactics can be developed.
 
So I also wonder if the attitudes of the top brass were more to do with it, in that they thought that soldiers would use up too much ammo too quickly. What do I base that on? Their decision on parachutes for the Flying Corps. They decided that if parachutes were supplied to airmen, then those airmen would be more inclined to abandon their planes quicker, so losing more aircraft. So they didn't issue parachutes.
 
 
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In my eyes, I could see issues with the spent she!! casings getting lodged in the cam action that loads the next round.Also, I envision the mud and rain and snow, etc. from trench warfare getting on the gas piston rod. To me, this auto-loader is a fail. Interesting though.
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Might be fun to try one out for a day.
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either way...I sure wish I had one!!
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I won a 20-round L-E trench mag online a while back, in an online "surprise package raffle" to support a different forum, but being in MD I can't receive the bloody thing!
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Shouldn't have watched that. I think it was a neat idea to make a bolt into a semi auto.

Now I would like to shoot one.
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Send it to me, I will give it a good home and keep it away from Hoadie, the Gnome King.
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Its a kind of M1 Garand but klutzier!
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..you do know that the M-1 Garand (America's Rifle..Gen Patton said it was the finest battle rifle ever conceived) was designed by a Canadian?
..Just sayin
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Originally posted by hoadie hoadie wrote:

..you do know that the M-1 Garand (America's Rifle..Gen Patton said it was the finest battle rifle ever conceived) was designed by a Canadian?
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i like it - but much like the pederson device for the US M1903 they were a fix that was applied to existing technology with only minimul thught to actual weight and funnction , doomed from the start because of backward [retro] thinking , one must look outside the box of existing technology to advance society , and so goes it with weaponry , 

it maters not who advances the technology , great canadians , great scots , great russians , it is those willing to accept and foresee the future , there have been some forward thinkers but so often the military is stuck in a rut (at least back then - think the P1903 magazine cutoff and its reasoning) thgat was applied to US rifles as well , there was a lot of backward thinking back then , life has progressed a lot since 
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One would need to get into reloading to be able to feed the pig.

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