Pedersen Rifle

The Pedersen rifle was a Self-loading Rifle using a Toggle-locked breech, waxed cartridges, and a 10-round magazine fed from En-bloc Clips . Designed by John Pedersen and chambered in .276 Pedersen , it made an unsuccessful bid to become the standard rifle of the US Army, rejected in favor of the M1 Garand . Patents filed by Pedersen protecting his rifle include and .

It was also trialed by the British, who were impressed but rejected it primarily on account of the waxed cartridges. The wax cartridges were though to be a problem in the tropical areas of the far-flung British Empire. Vickers was involved with making these samples, and so it is also known as the Vickers rifle (though the rifle design was unchanged).

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List Of Individual Weapons Of The U.S. Armed Forces

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