entropy
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And yet we never see benchrest rifles with chrome lined barrels. Accuracy and SKS are not totally mutually exclusive, but the intersection of the Venn diagram would be a rather tall, skinny football shape.
Prospective sellers more often told buyers that US weapons with 'matching' numbers were more valuable to 'gip' [sic] them because German weapons had them, and everywhere. US weapons are more likely to have an 'assembly' or 'lot' number on subassemblies.
Part of the American industrial might that was the real victor of WWII was the 'farming out' of building parts for rifles, pistols, tanks, aircraft and or implements of war to various manufacturers, then assembling them at a final location, like Boeing, Colt, etc.
German War implements were usually built with Old World craftsmanship, at a single location, from milling the receiver to final inspection.
The only other country in the world that could come near the US's industrial capacity in WWII was the Soviet Union, and even they received a LOT of gear from the US, because they lost some of their capacity when Barbarossa rolled over western Russia. They also ended up moving whole factories east over the Urals, costing them time and lives.
Being mostly safe from air or naval attack, CONUS was able to churn out the 'Arsenal of Democracy' in a manner never seen before, nor repeated since.
Prospective sellers more often told buyers that US weapons with 'matching' numbers were more valuable to 'gip' [sic] them because German weapons had them, and everywhere. US weapons are more likely to have an 'assembly' or 'lot' number on subassemblies.
Part of the American industrial might that was the real victor of WWII was the 'farming out' of building parts for rifles, pistols, tanks, aircraft and or implements of war to various manufacturers, then assembling them at a final location, like Boeing, Colt, etc.
German War implements were usually built with Old World craftsmanship, at a single location, from milling the receiver to final inspection.
The only other country in the world that could come near the US's industrial capacity in WWII was the Soviet Union, and even they received a LOT of gear from the US, because they lost some of their capacity when Barbarossa rolled over western Russia. They also ended up moving whole factories east over the Urals, costing them time and lives.
Being mostly safe from air or naval attack, CONUS was able to churn out the 'Arsenal of Democracy' in a manner never seen before, nor repeated since.
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