Not quite that fast, the magazine only held 10 rounds. But
a train soldier fired from the shoulder, only taking the
rifle down for reloading the magazine from the stripper
clip. It was possible to fire perhaps 30 rounds in a minute
with combat accuracy.

The U.S. Army doctrine was to fire well aimed shots, not
heavy fire suppression. The 30/40 Krag was standard issue
at the time of the Spanish-American War, but many units went
into combat using 1873 black powder single shot trapdoor
Springfield rifles.

The Krag and the 1903 Springfield rifle had a magazine
disconnector or cutoff so the trooper could load the
magazine and hold it in "reserve" and load the rifle as a
single shot. Of course that bit is silly Army training was
ignored if the soldier lived through his first day of
combat.


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"Dylan Smith" wrote in message
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| On 2006-03-14, Jim Macklin p51mustang wrote:
| The .303 British rifle was designed by an American,
named
| Lee and the British army adopted and it before WWI. A
very
| good rifle for battle.
|
| With practise, reputedly WWI soldiers could make it seem
like machine
| gun fire. And this was a bolt action rifle.
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