![]() Incidentally, the "M" in the rifle's nomenclature is reputed to be for "Mannlicher",īeing the style of stocking used, with the pistol-grip wrist. In March 1942, spares in June, and two more batches of rifles, totalling 8,000, Over the next eighteen months a batch of 8,000 later in 1941, There was, not surprisingly, a delay in the despatch of this early batch due Thus the latter three-quarters of that contract ![]() Numbers required by the British Government took time, On their production rather than serial numbers. Military style stock being the most significant and obvious.įor 10,000 rifles. ![]() The substitution of the three-quarter length stock with a Model 42 rifle was a sporting/target based designĬould comparatively easily be made to current 22 rimfire rifles suitable for the purpose. were already supplying much miltary matériel, Small-bore rifles as were in stock with gunsmiths or manufacturers were takenīy the War Office for distribution anywhere they might be of value for Were utilising almost anything on which they could lay their hands, Local Defence Volunteer units (latterly the Home Guard) Higher priority of Service arms production, With all local manufacturers committed to the far Just two years into the 1939-45 War, Britain was suffering a serious shortage See also: imagery only (as yet) of the Model 44 US (d) 22RFĪnd the follow-on Post War Mossberg 46 M (b)
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