On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 20:26:44 -0500, the inscrutable "Ed Huntress"
spake:

"Tom" wrote in message
...

"the U.S. Army modified the '03 to take a 150-grain bullet that
could reach out to where the Huns were...."

What was that all about?

Keeping up with Mauser, as Germany was considered to be one of the potential
military threats.

They had much better intel back then, didn't they? And no official
CIA to boot. Perhaps things were a bit less political a century ago.


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