To: C19fan; elhombrelibre
That screwing happened back in the 30's when the Garand was being developed. The limeys had a small caliber cartridge they wanted, (seems like I read somewhere that it was a .26 caliber but that's just what I recall) and General McArthur, who was somehow in charge of the project, said "Nothing less than the .30-'06."
The rest is history.
5 posted on
11/14/2014 6:29:45 AM PST by
OKSooner
("Knowledge is good.")
To: OKSooner
The Garand was originally developed to fire the .276 Pedersen but the generals wanted to keep the logistics at a minimum. Plus the US still had billions of rounds of .30-06 left over from WWI.
40 posted on
11/14/2014 8:17:07 AM PST by
Blood of Tyrants
(Good Muslims, like good Nazis or good Communists, are terrible human beings.)
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