Description: Browning 1918 BAR Automatic Rifle Handbook (Revised)51 pages about 11" x 8" glossy soft-cover in full color. New re-print restored and digitally enhanced from a nice photocopy. Printed on high quality 20# 97 bright acid free paper. Fully Illustrated.We are not affiliated with any arms or gun manufacturer. PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR THE CONTENTS LIST Delivery: We print to order every two or three days and that way we can offer the entire 5500+ inventory at a reasonable price. Each item is printed, collated, bound, packaged and shipped as soon as we can but it takes a little time so please be patient. Quality: Our mission is to preserve old firearms catalogs at a reasonable price before they are all gone, but our reprints are NOT forgeries of originals, they are exact copies of the originals but not necessarily the exact size or on the original paper or with the original binding. This stinks! During the last 15 years we have had over 50,000 happy customers from all over the world, but we cannot please everyone all the time, nevertheless we can put things right, even if the post office destroys your package. Just let us know if you are disappointed. CONTENTS INCLUDE: The Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) was a family of United States automatic rifles (or machine rifles) and light machine guns used by the United States and numerous other countries during the 20th century. The primary variant of the BAR series was the M1918 chambered for the .30-06 Springfield rifle cartridge and designed by John Browning in 1917 for the U.S. Expeditionary Corps in Europe as a replacement for the French-made Chauchat and M1909 Benet-Mercie machine guns. The BAR was designed to be carried by advancing infantrymen slung over the shoulder or fired from the hip a concept called "walking fire"thought to be necessary for the individual soldier during trench warfare. However in practice it was most often used as a light machine gun and fired from a bipod (introduced in later models). A variant of the original M1918 BAR the Colt Monitor Machine Rifle remains the lightest production automatic gun to fire the .30-06 Springfield cartridge though the limited capacity of its standard 20-round magazine tended to hamper its utility in that role. Although the weapon did see some action in World War I the BAR did not become standard issue in the U.S. Army until 1938 when it was issued to squads as a portable light machine gun. The BAR saw extensive service in both World War II and the Korean War and saw some service early in the Vietnam War. The U.S. Army began phasing out the BAR in the late 1950s and was without a portable light machine gun until the introduction of the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon in the mid-1980s. CORNELL PUBLICATIONSWe ship worldwide within 5-8 days of payment and will cheerfully combine shipping charges for multiple purchases. Please see all our listings by following the links above or below. Also you may search the text of all our listings by entering a word(s) in 'Search Store' above. Please see thousands of firearms and sporting goods – books, manuals and catalogs from 1850s on for sale in our Ebay Store. Cornell Publications all rights reserved. Powered by SixBit's eCommerce Solution
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