The Springfield featured a plethora of impressive features that were state of the art for its time. The new design was adopted in 1903 and so was called the M1903, better known as the Springfield ’03. They filed suit in the early 20 th century and the US government was forced to pay royalties to Mauser Werke. They say imitation is the purest form of flattery, but Mauser Werke was anything but flattered by the US Ordnance Dept’s imitation Mauser. Their solution: simply “borrow” the Mauser design and chamber it in 30-06. Still reeling from this tough lesson, the United States Ordnance Department determined that the US military needed to replace the antiquated Krag-Jørgensen rifles with a modern Mauser type. Pretty impressive, given that conventional military wisdom at the time determined that it took 2.5 attackers to rout each defender. This advantage became painfully apparent during the assault on San Juan Hill where 750 Spanish troops held 6,600 US regulars until Gatling gun and mobile artillery support were brought in. The Mauser’s use of stripper-clips and new ‘spitzer’ or pointed bullet made them load faster and shoot flatter. But he Krag’s overly-complex design was basically outclassed by the Spanish military’s imported German Mausers. The Army used this weapon exclusively in both the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War. As the user worked the bolt, it extracted the spent round and a fresh round rolled into the chamber.
MINELLI 1903 STOCK FREE
Free floating rounds were placed in a magazine well on the side of the rifle at a slight incline.
If you’re familiar with the way modern paint-ball guns are fed, you have a rough idea of the hopper concept used by the Krag. The solution came in the form of the Norwegian Krag-Jørgensen, reclassified by the US military as the M1892-99. With lessons learned from the Civil War, the US military needed to replace their aging stock of muzzle-loaders with a modern metallic cartridge-feeding long-arm.
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