The Basket
Senior Master Sergeant
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- Jun 27, 2007
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Why not? The .303 was a less powerful, lighter round than the Garand's .30, yet had a much better bullet design. And the Bren gun proved that rimmed rounds were not a serious issue for reliable magazine feeding in automatic weapons.A few thoughts.
As I am British I would be selling or designing to my own country.
Problem is they would certainly specify 303 and don't want that!
The Farquar-Hill rifle went through a protracted development, mainly because the British authorities were so dead set against an automatic rifle, but at least one '20s prototype used a conventional box magazine rather than the drum magazine of the 1918 version adopted for limited service.Is there an example of a semi auto using a detachable magazine? In the 1930 timescale? I know the Farquhar did but trying to find a box mag like the BAR..
A bit of a cop out. I don't think if there is a major war 10 years later that the SMLE is going to be obsolete.I'd stick with the SMLE and improve training