The long, heavy bullets of the Carcano were made to yaw pretty heavily if I remember

But yes, a "proto-battle rifle" seems like the best way to describe the federov in modern terms

However, the standard Italian service round used an unstable round-nosed bullet with a propensity to tumble, whether hitting soft tissue/ballistic gel or harder material such as bone.

not sure if they did that on purpose or if it was just because round nose rifle bullets were still fairly common

and they had to lengthen it to meet their weight reqirements

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long bullets just yaw

The fedorov is sorta a battle rifle sorta an automatic rifle and we don’t really have good records on how it was used, only that it was relatively well liked

If only the Russians had kept 6.5 Jap in mind when developing the AVS and AVT

not sure that would have mattered

similar situation to the US and .276 pederson

276 is a more appreciable advantage though

Flatter shooting at the ranges combat occurs in, and two extra rounds in the en-bloc

A 6.5 AVT would have slightly less weird mags and shoot softer

Not that SVT’s shoot particularly hard

But it would have been controllable in full auto

Moreso anyway

right, but I mean from a logistical standpoint

For the US that’s far less of an issue

>Logical standpoint
In this server?

In theatre it would be kind of a PITA until all the 1903’s were gone but otherwise given how good US logistics were it would have been fine

For the Russians it would have been a nightmare lmao

ehhhh

10 years to re quip

and the US didn't have any machineguns in .276

For a long time we didn’t have an MG in 5.56 either

They changed cartridges halfway through Nam

If a 276 garand was accepted in 36 it gives them 5 years to prepare

Also consider this: 276 BAR

yea, but it was far more advantageous logistically to have one caliber in that scale of a conflict

Yes

But they weren’t aware they’d be dragged into a war that large

BAR is just meh any way you slice it

On the other hand there’s also the chance you’d wind up with a Russia situation

Or, well, a P13 scenario more likely

“War were declared, convert the Garand to standard 30-06 and use the 1903 in the meantime”

so a slower fielding than what happened

actually, I'm sure the M1919 or 1917s could have been converted to .276 without too much trouble

Well yeah

That was what I was attempting to get at

Did the 1919 use a similar action to the maxim?