Early Critique of US Magazine Rifle

[Local Boy]

I'm glad that the inferior Mauser designed rifle, had in no way, any affect on future U.S. firearm designs!

Long live the Krag!!! ;)

[butlersrangers]

Yes, the Mauser System was a 'Dead End', that came to an early demise in the evolution of arms.

It is pretty rare to see any reference to it. ;)

[Knute1]

I can understand the Springfield Armory "bad mouthing" the Mauser with impunity. What I got a kick out of was the way the Mauser was considered a "repeating" firearm like that was a bad thing and that it couldn't be "single-loaded" like that was a good thing to have.

[Knute1]

Here's another soldier that isn't going to let anybody off the hook for criticizing his rifle. It is in response to another reader of a magazine called "Recreation". He is writing from the Philippine Islands.

[Capt. Frank]

Curious, Springfield dropped the Krag, and started producing the 1903, a Mauser copy.