Thread: WW II bolt-action rifles: Your choice?

Himmm just read through this, after likeing the Lee! It would have to depend on the battlefield!
Look at the Boars vs the English? The boars out shot them in distance.
But if it was WW1 and western front then it would be Lee and a very sharp spade!!! Once they came over the top and got in the trench beside you, a rifle is not much help. Start swing that spade. That sharp knife on the end is just going to get stuck in one side of the trench wall, and your opponent is going to do the same, out comes the sharp spade! Sorry only offices had pistols and swords where soon taken from them as they had a habit of wavering them around when they went over the top and turning them and anybody around them into easy targets if your sniping then 300yards Max's so 8x57 is a good flat round for the time, latter on once the sepos joined the war sure 30'06.
All out attack defence back to the Lee 9 rounds in the mag good to go. (Yes it's a ten round mag but all where thaught to never load ten as it was prone to jam! Also most only every fired 5/6 in a fight)
WW2 again what battlefield? Africa? 303, 8x57
End of the day I think we would all chose the one that would be the most reliable and not jam.
Sure the Lee is fast to shoot, but if you load it wrong then your stuffed. Heat of the moment and that can happen.
8x57 30/06 Springfield is just a copy of the Mauser, they even paid royalties towards Mauser at one stage if I'm not mistaken.
So who wants a copy?
Nar it's all down to the 303 our the 8x57!