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Old June 11, 2014, 12:48 PM   #77
Mike Irwin
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"I recall reading that the cutoff found use with grenade launchers, allowing the soldier to load a grenade launching blank, while keeping a mag full of ball."

By the 1930s and into the early days of World War II when it was still being issued, that's the only reason troops were taught for the cutoff's existence, and was the primary reason why it was kept even during wartime production when fitting a simplified bolt release would have required less machining and been faster and less expensive to make.
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