The tactical lessons that should have been learned from the Boer War and the Russo-Japanese War (both featured machine guns, trench warfare, and bolt action rifles) didn't penetrate many nations until the World War broke out, and even then not all the brass got the memo. Many of the military management class still just loved those cheap and effective (especially CHEAP) bayonets, as long as they didn't have to use one or have it used on THEM.... And sabres! (They apparently never heard of bobwire, either).
Roy,do you think Savage's rrotary magazine was crap-proof enough to make it as a military rifle? Did it have to survive mud and dust tests? The Mannlicher-Schoenauer magazine seemed to work well enough in a military rifle, although it had limited use... Greece and Italy only, I think.
