Misc pics/ 1903 Springfield

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Tula Neil
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Re: Misc pics/ 1903 Springfield

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Hi JYD.
Thats just for the 1903 Mk1 rifle, we are not allowed big semi auto stuff :vsad: Seems alot of weight to ask one man to carry..




Ps I'd rather have a Bren .303 :Drool1:
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One of the reasons the idea was scrapped, if not for wartime desperation it never would have gotten past the planning stages in the first place. In the face of Maxim guns with overlapping fields of fire nothing a soldier could carry and shoot while running across no mans land would have made much difference.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
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