30-06, did make it to the front lines and performed quite well. It got produced but never made the front lines for reasons I've yet to fully understand. Thus the Pattern 14 was born, chambered in. It didn't make sense to complicate the supply system with another cartridge. 276 cartridge stopped with the advent of WWI. The round was pretty hot and there were problems with rapid erosion of the bore. 276 (7mm), the predecessor to the Pattern 14, never made it to production (nor did the British EM-2 Bullpup in. Happily that's started to change in the last decade or so. Good find! The Model 1917 always seemed to be in the shadow of the 1903 Springfield in the collecting world.
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