Want someone to buy your rifle? Butter them up with a demo model to play with. It still works that way today, and eighty years ago it was the same way. We have an interesting letter written to a Captain Porter by John Pedersen, describing the Pedersen rifle and ammo being shipped to him in time for deer season (click to enlarge).
Who wouldn’t like to get a note like that in the mail? The only bummer is that he wants to have the rifle returned when Captain Porter is done with it.
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The main competitor to the Garand rifle in the 1930s was John Pedersen’s toggle-locked rifle. The Pedersen was designed to fire, appropriately, the .276 Pedersen cartridge developed just for it, and it used an en […]
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I wonder what Capt. Porter’s position was, what he had done, or what his relationship to Pederson was that would allow Pederson to ship the rifle to Porter.
I also wonder if there is any record that Porter returned the rifle (or got a deer)?
Steve
I’d love to get a free Pedersen, even if it was only for a little while….
300 cartridges! That would cost a small fortune today. Anyway thanks for sharing.