chris in va
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Both my 527's snap over the case rim when single loading. Nice feature.
if you ever have a burst case head you will want a push feed. look at a pre-64 win barrel and a springfield o3,o3a3 barrel, the large extractor cut in the rear of the chamber will allow the gas to wreck your rifle and may hurt the shooter. eastbank.
if you ever have a burst case head you will want a push feed.
I seriously want an answer, I'm not just winding you up.
On another hand, there was a story I read written by a WWII vet. He wound up in a nighttime firefight with limited backup, carrying a springfield. every time he fired, he was targeted. and he rolled away from the incoming fire. an empty magazine, incoming rounds, roll, and reload. He later realized that he was firing tracer rounds with every fifth round, and he was alerting the gunners to his position. In a fit of rage, he later smashed his springfield, and took a garand that had been misplaced.
He blamed the rifle because the ammo was equipped with tracers. It happens all the time, people grab onto simple, even unreasonable prejudices and hold them forever.
When making an attempt to discern fact from fiction and truth from nonsense when I get to the 'every 5th round' I have to think he was using a machine gun. Complete with tracers and armor piercing rounds that were linked. If he was using a Springfield the tracer could have been the first and or last round fired.
So far as I know, it was entirely made up.