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.
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.