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A shell being loaded into the chamber and fired, the action would not open enough to eject the empty and pick up a new one. So it was necessary to work the operating handle by hand for each shot. This didn’t happen just occasionally but about 90 percent of the time. Not only would it give trouble with the light M/2 cartridge— specially adopted for this rifle—but it tied up with the much more potent M/1 A top-look with the action shut and ready for business. Note the flat bolt. load. Having made this rather interesting discovery, we lubed this particular gun and wiped the other one dry, whereupon it performed in like manner. Let In e And so we rapidly came to the conclu- ’er ase let ’er , let ’er sn ow. i waterproof se you 1 - ANY: WATERPROOF LEATHER SHIRT sion work SHEEPSKIN VEST WATERPROOF TRAP COAT that neither worth of these a. darn when rifles would fairly dry. When heavily greased both worked moderately well, but only moderately well. Of course we didn’t have the _ special graphite grease that is supposed to be used on the rifle—but the soldier in the field is not likely to have it, or any other grease. We ran into a variety of jams when the rifles were lubricated, part of which trouble might have been due GAME BAG with bloodproof SHOOTING MITS pocket WRITE FOR NEW CATALOG eae BERLIN GLOVE 604 BERLIN, Fox Ave. WISCONSIN eee catalog, just the press, shows Sar full Mid-Western line of leather hunting coats, jackets and pants, trap coats, sport ackets, shooting mitts, sheepskin vests, ladies’ jackets, gun cases, buckskin shirts, game bags and many other items of outdoor apparel. All Mid-Western garments are priced on a _ factorydirect basis—all_ possible savings being passed on ou. Write or wire today. When the guns did work, though, they were pour hurry. much fun to shoot and you could ammunition through them in a big The M/1 is a clip loader—8 shells are inserted into the magazine while held in the clip. When the last shot has been fired, the clip pops out with a clear, belllike “clang” which is highly surprising and disconcerting at first. But it does tell you very plainly that it’s high time to reload. The bolt is also held 1940 the bolt get started home for the first shot. Without a clip shells can not be put in the magazine and the gun must be used as a single shot. It’s not practical to refill the magazine after a few shots have been fired, unless you take out the old clip and put ina new one. This clip isn’t like the charger we’ve used with our Springfield and Enfield rifles, but is like the clips used on many foreign military rifles. It holds 8 shells, in two staggered rows of 4. A clip loading machine is is- Side view, bolt open. sight is built in as Note how part of the the rear rifle. sued to each platoon, which makes cliploading fairly easy. But-when you have to fill ’°em by hand, you'll find it a rather mean and annoying task. -Can be done all right, but it certainly isn’t a handy arrangement. As far as accuracy is concerned, we didn’t do much along that line because we got so interested in the lousy functioning of the rifle. So we ran no serious group tests or long range stuff. We did get off several strings of rapid fire. Start standing, drop into the sitting position and fire 2 clips or 16 shots in about 55 seconds. We could usually put about 12 of the 16 shots in the 10” black, with the others near by. With a bit of shooting to get used to the timing and the rifle, we could probably do better than this. That isn’t any Nor were we particular accuracy test. able to do much in run- ning test, a speed as we had but two clips and it was possible to fire the rifle faster than clips could be loaded by hand. One semi-authentic ordnance story of a couple years ago said that the average rifleman could fire, at 200 yards, about 50 aimed but we'd shots per minute. Mebbe so, like to see it done. Perhaps our definitions of “average rifleman” and “aimed shots” differ considerably. About half that figure seems more like it. But when the rifle works and everything goes well, you can pour a lot of ammunition to our ignorance of the peculiarities of the gun. Items: cartridge caught in the bolt, but jammed against breech face, bolt held open; failure to eject, with empty case caught between bolt and breech; clip popping out of magazine before empty and holding the bolt open, etc. WATERPROOF LEATHER CAP with detachable Parka Hood Afield—November, open when the last shot has been fired. To reload, another clip is put in the magazine, which at the same time releases the bolt, although it’s often necessary to help Top view of the M/I rifle with the bolt open. through the gun in a short time—which is a problem that worries the poor supply officer. Because it can be fired so rapidly, and because the barrel is neatly encased in a heavy, insulating wood stock, after two or three clips rapid fire you think the durn rifle is going to burst into flames at any moment. And when smoke begins to curl up from the forestock and the oil boils out of the wood, it isn’t far from it. Doesn’t take much shooting for the wood to get too hot to touch. Any high power rifle that is fired fast gets pretty warm. Most automatic rifles, machine guns, etc.,