A late TL5/early TL6 Bolt Action Rifle (Madsen M-47) Graham Donald (11 Jan 2020 14:20 UTC)
Re: [TML] A late TL5/early TL6 Bolt Action Rifle (Madsen M-47) Kurt Feltenberger (12 Jan 2020 01:21 UTC)

Re: [TML] A late TL5/early TL6 Bolt Action Rifle (Madsen M-47) Kurt Feltenberger 12 Jan 2020 01:21 UTC

On 1/11/2020 9:20 AM, Graham Donald - gndonald2001 at yahoo.com.au (via
tml list) wrote:
> One irony of history is that Madsen actually made some early
> auto-loading guns in the 1890s that reached very limited military service.

The Madsen MGs were actually very widely used and adopted around the
world (in at least 13 different calibers) and the last examples were
only retired in the past ten or fifteen years.

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