Heh! The Winchester 1906 can be classified as a machine-gun because you can make it shoot by just holding back the trigger and racking the slide.
I’ve read (I’m not that old) that it was our soldiers’ favorite trench-fighting weapon in WWI. Their preferred load was birdshot, #4 shot (not #4 buchshot), or even smaller, because of the close ranges (energy retention), small spread but still a pattern, and ragged wounds.
May 29th, 2009 at 11:45 am
Heh! The Winchester 1906 can be classified as a machine-gun because you can make it shoot by just holding back the trigger and racking the slide.
I’ve read (I’m not that old) that it was our soldiers’ favorite trench-fighting weapon in WWI. Their preferred load was birdshot, #4 shot (not #4 buchshot), or even smaller, because of the close ranges (energy retention), small spread but still a pattern, and ragged wounds.