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Posted: 10/29/2013 1:58:26 PM EDT
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Yeah I was thinking the same thing.....30/06 would have been the standard till the 556 came out View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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30/06 7.5 swiss? I'd have voted for that. |
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Either .270 or .280 Enfield if the British had been able to market their work better with Army Ordnance Corps.
If the M14 wasn't so far behind on production, we could have seen a .224 x .25 Remington, or a 6mm Remington short in the AR15. Market forces and aging rifles had a big influence on driving from 7.62x51 to 5.56x45 NATO. The AR15 was only meant to be a stop-gap temporary band-aid until the SPIW could be developed and produced. |
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.280/7mm FN
Original round for the FN/FAL. Ballistically similar to the 7mm-08, basically a short action version of 7mm Mauser. |
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7.5 French, the French put a lot of work in the 7.5, and did not like it when NATO went with the 7.62x51.
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I would HOPE .30-06...
Man, how awesome would an M14/M1A be if chambered in .30-06, eh?? |
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anyone who didn't answer .280 British doesn't know their small arms history.
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anyone who didn't answer .280 British doesn't know their small arms history. View Quote What about the 6 mm SAW for the ordnance board that isn't a fan of things not invented here. |
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anyone who didn't answer .280 British doesn't know their small arms history. View Quote Indeed. We'd probably still be using 7mm FALs with Picatinny rails today if that were adopted by NATO. http://www.forgottenweapons.com/prototype-280-fal/ |
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.280
So many countries have tinkered and played with the idea of a .275-.280 cartridges, and yet it is still overlooked. UK looked at the .280 in the 50s US had the Garand in .276 until McArthur stepped in. Then there was the military looking at the 6.8 round for the M-16 platform. The US Navy looked at the 6mm with the Lee rifle. Japan used the 6.5mm for awhile then decided they needed something closer to the 8mm Mauser. |
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Should have went with 6.5x55. Extremely efficient round that the Euros love. Why it never caught on much here boggles the mind.
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30/06 7.5 swiss? I'd have voted for that. You, sir, have excellent taste. |
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30/06 7.5 swiss? I'd have voted for that. You, sir, have excellent taste. I'm a 6.5x55 shooter and would still have voted for 7.5 Swiss. It's a very accurate round |
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Many probably do not realize the L1A1 (FAL) did not replace the No 4 Lee Enfield in British service......
but rather was adopted to replace the very short lived Rifle No. 9 basically killed off by US Army Ordnance forcing the 7.62mm NATO on the Brits read more here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EM-2_rifle chambered for this with more info on the cartridge and its history here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.280_British Yet another case of US Army ordnance really screwing the pooch due to having their head firmly stuck up their butts |
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30/06 more or less but you'd have seen a lot more variety. Brits would have done their own thing with their new round. Maybe Canada & Belgium would have followed. West Germany, Greece, Danes, Italians all odd six until developing new calibers or waiting for Uncle Sam to switch to something new. France, we know their decision. Mighty Luxembourg, 06. Spain, 7 mm then a shorter one for their cetmes. Norway, who knows. Iceland, snowballs and hunks of glacier. Holland, something saboted. Portugal, I'm not sure. They were latecomers anyway.
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The .30/06 was the NATO standard, as well as the m1 garand. The us gave them to any country that wanted to fight communism. It's why there is Greek, Israeli, Korean, and even Iranian surplus m2 ball. Winchester either sold or gave the tooling to pb beretta and Breda in Italy to manufacture new m1 garands for Denmark and other NATO countries.
Found that out after I came into a Danish contract m1 made by Breda every part on it was stamped bmb. |
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The .30/06 was the NATO standard, as well as the m1 garand. The us gave them to any country that wanted to fight communism. It's why there is Greek, Israeli, Korean, and even Iranian surplus m2 ball. Winchester either sold or gave the tooling to pb beretta and Breda in Italy to manufacture new m1 garands for Denmark and other NATO countries. Found that out after I came into a Danish contract m1 made by Breda every part on it was stamped bmb. View Quote It wasn't for the Brits, Canadians, French, and maybe Norway. First three made up a huge chunk of NATO. There wasn't an across the board standard until the late 80's and SS109. |
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Four Bore.
Ok seriously, the 30-06 would have been natural at the time.
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