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Honkytonk
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Posted: October 19 2018 at 6:22am |
I have a question. Why are the majority of rifles different armies used during WW2 full wood stocks? Does anyone know the thought process behind that? Thanks!
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Shamu
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Bayonet fighting! Really. Its hard to handle a really hot barrel, so they encased them in wood. Its also the reason for the "stripes" in No4 Handguards. those grooved cuts are called "Grasping grooves" & they act like checkering in wet, muddy trench fighting.
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Honkytonk
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Thanks, Shamu! Never thought of that. Once again, I learn something new everyday from this site.
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Zed
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In the WWI diary of Harry Drinkwater; he tells of a particularly hard fire fight that he had one time; on night watch I believe. The Enfield barrels got so hot that he and his colleagues kept swapping rifles to let them cool because they were getting too hot to hold.
He ended up on a charge because later on parade he did not have the rifle he was issued with! His story is well worth a read. One of the few diarists who went continued writing through out the war. It was strictly forbidden to keep a diary; he was lucky to survive, as well as not get caught writing the diary!
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