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02-09-13, 02:31
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Just noticed a reference in "The Book of Rifles" Smith.
In 1939/40 the Americans shipped an astonishing 1,000,000 of these rifles "on hand" in bulk to UK. Because Smith deals with both rifles in the same section of the book I can't work out if they were 30-06 or .303. Why would the Americans have 1,000,000 .303 on hand, indicating production through the 20's? I can understand them having the M1917/P17 Enfield on hand as they had standardised on the Springfield for their army and had the WW1 P17 leftovers but if they were 30-06 there is little mention in any history I have seen of the British using that calibre rifle in vast numbers. Lang Last edited by Lang; 02-09-13 at 02:50. 
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