Thread: Pump 223

Its only thanks to the foresight of the british military in the 1890s that we can still have 10 rounds in a bolt action centrefire.
If the country had been saturated with hundreds of thousands of 5 round mausers after both wars most of which are untraceable today we would have a 5 round limit.
As if you needed another reason to love the Lee Enfield.

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

Its only thanks to the foresight of the british military in the 1890s that we can still have 10 rounds in a bolt action centrefire.
If the country had been saturated with hundreds of thousands of 5 round mausers after both wars most of which are untraceable today we would have a 5 round limit.
As if you needed another reason to love the Lee Enfield.

Ummmmmmmmmm. Sorry to drop a fly in your ointment pot, but dare I mention what was to be our beloved " Smellie's" replacement? The P14 with a Mauser lock and an internal 5 round magazine.

Phew. That was a close shave. I never thought that I would have cause to thank Kaiser Wilhelm II for saving us from that fate, but "ich danke Ihnen" Fritz.

Originally Posted by Kiwi Sapper

Ummmmmmmmmm. Sorry to drop a fly in your ointment pot, but dare I mention what was to be our beloved " Smellie's" replacement? The P14 with a Mauser lock and an internal 5 round magazine.

Phew. That was a close shave. I never thought that I would have cause to thank Kaiser Wilhelm II for saving us from that fate, but "ich danke Ihnen" Fritz.
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Yes but it got the arse thanks to the cartridge that was proposed for it its recoil and the fact that Cordite removed rifling quickly thanks to the high speed and high pressure coupled to the poms being reluctant to abandon huge inventories. So it was retooled to 303 and did its best work with the Americans as the P14 and as sniper rifles.

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

Yes but it got the arse thanks to the cartridge that was proposed for it its recoil and the fact that Cordite removed rifling quickly thanks to the high speed and high pressure coupled to the poms being reluctant to abandon huge inventories. So it was retooled to 303 and did its best work with the Americans as the P14 and as sniper rifles.

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The .276 Enfield cartridge was a cracker though. Not much chop as a military cartridge but wouldn't have looked out of place in a modern rifle. A 7 mm semi short magnum.
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