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Best rifle in WW1 ?

SlabMurphy · 2010-05-28 15:24:57

Which would have been the better rifle, the Lee Enfeild .303 or the Mauser ( Gewehr 98 ) ? And what rifle did the French use and how did it compare to the two above ? Watching Discovery Knowledge a few days ago about the histroy of assault rifles, they were saying the American's M1903 Springfield was an exact copy of the…

28-05-2010 3:24pm

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Which would have been the better rifle, the Lee Enfeild .303 or the Mauser ( Gewehr 98 ) ? And what rifle did the French use and how did it compare to the two above ? Watching Discovery Knowledge a few days ago about the histroy of assault rifles, they were saying the American's M1903 Springfield was an exact copy of the Mauser. Mauser took Springfield to court over copyright and won the case and they had to pay the Germans royalities. So as the American historian said, the Germans received payment in order to allow the Americans use their rifle to shoot their soldiers........

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