On Aug 30, 2:14 pm, Gunner wrote:

The Americans went to war with a target rifle
The Germans went to war with a hunting rifle
The British went to war with a Battle rifle.
Gunner

That was originally an envious British slur on German and American
rifles, cartridges and tactics.

It didn't help that they had been in the middle of a caliber change
and were poorly prepared to resume high-volume production of the Lee-
Enfield, so they had to contract their own latest rifle design to US
factories (US WWI production was nothing to brag about either).

jw