Originally Posted by
mlberry
And, as an aside, the M1903 Springfield rifle, was designed with a magazine cut off to facilitate loading a single round. When done that way the extractor would have to override the cartridge until it could snap down into the groove. In fact the theory was that the rifle would be normally fired single shot with the loaded magazine being held in reserve. It didn't work out that way from the start and firing from the magazine became the norm.
The designers had to provide the brass the illusion that they could continue to micromanage riflemen down to the single round (frontstuffer style), since they still maintained the delusional fantasy of volley fire and drill and ceremony type maneuvering at the dawn of the age of the machinegun.
RLTW
Former Action Guy
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