CapnMac
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Didn't Furer make a bolt action with a toggle in it?
Ross gets a bad rap--but when you take a hunting rifle to war as a battle rifle, it's going to have problems. Especially when you are trying to arm an entire nation while making a quarter-century's worth of technology jump too.
Now the case might be made that the Kropatschek was a sub-par rifle, since the French Navy was willing to replace it with Lebel & Berthiers.
The Gewehr Commission rifles were not that great--few things designed by committee are, but they did work.
It's a complicated question.
Ross gets a bad rap--but when you take a hunting rifle to war as a battle rifle, it's going to have problems. Especially when you are trying to arm an entire nation while making a quarter-century's worth of technology jump too.
Now the case might be made that the Kropatschek was a sub-par rifle, since the French Navy was willing to replace it with Lebel & Berthiers.
The Gewehr Commission rifles were not that great--few things designed by committee are, but they did work.
It's a complicated question.