[Billthedrill]

BTT. Great stuff in the article including a rather shocking table of "zero" ranges for the day's rifles. And yes, if your Springfield is zeroed for 500 meters and your target's at 50, you're going to be shooting a little high.

I also note that the American grenadier was armed with some automatic pistol designed by a feller named Browning with the model year of 1911. Wonder whatever happened to that one?

[Lurker]

also note that the American grenadier was armed with some automatic pistol designed by a feller named Browning with the model year of 1911. Wonder whatever happened to that one?

I hear tell it turned out to be a pretty good pistol, and that Browning fellow it seems did fairly well with one or two other designs as well.

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[MHGinTN]

One of them is in my nightstand. Been Nickeled and the several parts are from different producers, but it still works just fine. Has a nice upgraded eight round magazine with HydraShoks, and Packmeyer grips, too.

[javachip]

Here's an M1903 with the ladder sight flipped up. The sight is calibrated out to 2800 yards. When the sight is down, there's a notch in the cross piece for the battle sight. With the as-designed front blade, the battle sight zero is 547 yards. The rifles were often fitted with a higher front blade to get a more practical zero for the battle sight.

[mad_as_he$$]

A guy named Alvin York can give you details.

[archy]

I also note that the American grenadier was armed with some automatic pistol designed by a feller named Browning with the model year of 1911. Wonder whatever happened to that one?

Mr. Browning revised and improved his design, with the assistance of the great Belgian firearms talent Dieudonné Joseph Saive, deleted those features demanded by the American Cavalry Board on his M1910/M1911 design, included a magazine based on the Estonian Model 1918 Talinn 9mm machinepistol design, and came up with this:

And, over the years, it's been refined into this: