To: SJackson
Ok, now I remember. Army wanted to make M-1 in .270, but there was so much '06 in stock, they chambered it for the older round.
11 posted on
10/11/2005 4:46:24 PM PDT by
MindBender26
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To: MindBender26
Ok, now I remember. Army wanted to make M-1 in .270, but there was so much '06 in stock, they chambered it for the older round. I'm fairly sure it was originally designed as a military cartridge, but not accepted, but either designed, or commercialized in 1925, well before the M-1. That's not to say '06 inventory, tooling, and standards weren't the deciding issue.
14 posted on
10/11/2005 4:56:50 PM PDT by
SJackson
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