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?

For the US a switch to 276 wouldn’t have been a big hurdle

Nah the maxim is toggle locked

Did it still do the pull the cartridge out of the belt rearward thing?

yup

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nZVyWD_wUvI/maxresdefault.jpg

Is that in 7.62x54R?

Yeah since the conversion is really simple it was done to a bunch to shoot cheaper ammo when 54r was cheap

Swap the bolt and change the barrel and tada

The PKM does a rearward pullout too, I don't remember the specifics of that mechanism tho

it's even more simple