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1. French Lebel: Bounce it too hard on its buttstock and the pointed rounds in the tube magazine make you an amputee. Only the French would use revolutionary smokeless powder spitzer rounds in a tube fed obsolete platform.
2. Krag-Jorgenson: So shitty we ditched it after only 10 years. Had we faced a real enemy in the Spanish American war, armed with Mausers we would have really been raped in the butt. Plus these have a reputation of blowing up on people thanks to its single locking lug design.
3. Trapdoor Springfield: Read reports of its first years and its sounds like you are talking about the M16 in 1966-1967 in Vietnam. Poor extraction, slow manipulation, and nothing more than a modified muzzleloader. With all the Winchester and Marlin lever guns in 45-70 why not replace it in the 1870's or 1880's?
4. Canadian Ross Rifle:Lets issue a rifle that hasnt been tested in severe conditions. Im sure the poor canucks loved having to kick open their rifles when being charged by German troops
5. Lee Metford Rifle: Cordite 303 and Metford Rifling make you a smooth bore in no time. Miscalculated sights and poor trajectory made it a perfect gun for your enemy if you are a Boer soldier with bright and shiny 1895 Mausers in 7x57mm
6. Berthier Rifle: 3 Shot rifle with a mannlicher clip system. Once again only the French.
7. Berdan Rifle: By the time the Russians started making them for the Imperial army it was obsolete
8. Reising SMG- JAM O MATIC. So bad that the Marines threw them away on the beaches of the south pacific.
9. Madsen M47: The last bolt action rifle ever sold to a military.......in the 1950s. Cool gun just made in a really bad era considering the FN49, FAL, and M1 garand were out there.
10. Vetterli 1915: Take a blackpowder marginally strong action and marry it to a smokless powder round it might handle everytime you pull the trigger.
2. Krag-Jorgenson: So shitty we ditched it after only 10 years. Had we faced a real enemy in the Spanish American war, armed with Mausers we would have really been raped in the butt. Plus these have a reputation of blowing up on people thanks to its single locking lug design.
3. Trapdoor Springfield: Read reports of its first years and its sounds like you are talking about the M16 in 1966-1967 in Vietnam. Poor extraction, slow manipulation, and nothing more than a modified muzzleloader. With all the Winchester and Marlin lever guns in 45-70 why not replace it in the 1870's or 1880's?
4. Canadian Ross Rifle:Lets issue a rifle that hasnt been tested in severe conditions. Im sure the poor canucks loved having to kick open their rifles when being charged by German troops
5. Lee Metford Rifle: Cordite 303 and Metford Rifling make you a smooth bore in no time. Miscalculated sights and poor trajectory made it a perfect gun for your enemy if you are a Boer soldier with bright and shiny 1895 Mausers in 7x57mm
6. Berthier Rifle: 3 Shot rifle with a mannlicher clip system. Once again only the French.
7. Berdan Rifle: By the time the Russians started making them for the Imperial army it was obsolete
8. Reising SMG- JAM O MATIC. So bad that the Marines threw them away on the beaches of the south pacific.
9. Madsen M47: The last bolt action rifle ever sold to a military.......in the 1950s. Cool gun just made in a really bad era considering the FN49, FAL, and M1 garand were out there.
10. Vetterli 1915: Take a blackpowder marginally strong action and marry it to a smokless powder round it might handle everytime you pull the trigger.
