Comments on: Pedersen Device manual

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 04:09:50 +0000

There is a version for the Mosin Nagant and the 1917 Enfield.

By: juver

juver — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 10:48:28 +0000

having looked through the manual , it looks like the patient and the final production version differ quite a bit

but they do seem to function the same way

and with the picture there should be enough there to mockup a working prototype ?

By: Daniel E. Watters

Daniel E. Watters — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 18:53:25 +0000

Martin: Prototypes were fabricated for both the M1917 and the Mosin-Nagant. And no, I can’t see them being an adequate substitute for the M1 Carbine. The weight and length alone of the parent rifles would have made them nonviable.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 17:52:29 +0000

I don’t believe I’ve every read how much the US government paid for these. Has anyone here every seen what they paid? Also, someone said there was a version for the Mosin? Is that true?

IMO and with my 20-20 hind sight, the US government should have kept the ones they made. They wouldn’t have had to make the M1 carbine.

By: juver

juver — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:26:45 +0000

Thx

By: Daniel E. Watters

Daniel E. Watters — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:22:29 +0000

Note that the author of the manual is the likely the same S.G. Green credited with the redesign of Browning’s Cal. 50 M1921 into the M2.