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I've read quite a bit on the subject too. They never really considered the rifles as bad until some were destroyed after the war..but during the war (both of them in fact) we were notoriously short on arms which is usually pretty much the norm anyway..Till VN I guess. I guess during WW I they considered they were destroyed by plugged bores etc..musta happened quite often I'd say. But I did read an essay on the ammo of the time..Brass was no where near as well made and hardened as it should have been. Powder was rudimentary smokeless compared to now and it was being used under untried conditions and in wartime I am certain that some lots of ammo were not as well checked as during peacetime. Heck my father in law told me he remembered using up 30 cal ammo while training in 1939 that was made in 1917. Said it was ok in bolt guns but much of the necks were cracked. He even told me that every now and again the whole end of the cartridges broke off feeding 03s with the stripper clips. But even after they gave him a Garand he always wanted his beloved 03 back and he was a left hand bolt shooter. Even at 80 YO he could work an ol pre war M70 better than I could and he did it left handed. So I traded him a 4 digit Win 88 for it