Late Christmas EditionPost what you want about anything. No rules.Previous thread: >>64597464
Dark times when /msg/ doesn't hit its bump limit and instead just gets pushed off the board.
>>64684979bump limit or otherwise, it always comes back.
>>64684979Well, when OP contributes no pictures of his own nor determines a course of conversation what do you expect? Be the post you want to see ITT, starting with the very first.
>>64685217>Pederson cut outThis stirs a question. Ive seen a lot of 03s with the cutout than I would've assumed given that the thing was (never?) fielded. Just how many 1903s got the treatment that inevitably amounted to just a slight lightening of the weight.If I had bigthink.jpg I would post it but I dont so here's something random
>>64685909>The contract was cancelled on March 1, 1919, after production of 65,000 devices>When the United States Army decided they did not want to pay the cost of storing the devices, nearly all of the stored devices were destroyed>Fewer than 100 Pedersen devices escaped ordered destruction
>>64686027They’re prized because they’re rare. If they hadn’t been Order 66’d they’d be less warmly held in the public collecting eye. Perhaps of equal renown to K31 drop-in caliber conversion kits with everyone having them just complaining about wobbly mags and sourcing ammo. The best place for them, honestly, is as a memory.
>>64686272>it's better for something to just not exist than to exist but in a less-than-ideal state
>>64685909>Just how many 1903s got the treatment thatBruce Canfield says at least 101,775. The problem is that Mk.I production was coincidental with standard M1903 production at Springfield. 163,332 receivers were serialized between the first Mk.I recorded and the last Mk.I recorded, but not all were Mk.I configuration.>thing was (never?) fielded.About 3,000 Mk.I rifles and devices spent nearly a decade in the Panama Canal Zone. That’s as close as they came to any real service.>>64686272They’re prized because they’re cool, even if an impractical solution. Most crazy ideas like that never even hit prototype stage, much less mass production.
>>64686349It died a hero, instead of living long enough to become a villain.
