.30-06 Springfield - U.S. Military Firearms Using The .30-06 Cartridge

U.S. Military Firearms Using The .30-06 Cartridge

• M1903/M1903A3 bolt-action rifle using Mauser-licensed stripper clips.
• M1917 Enfield rifle, loading from stripper clips.
• Gatling gun: Some U.S. Gatling guns were re-chambered for .30-06.
• Model 1909 Machine Rifle: The Benet-Mercie light machine gun was chambered for .30-06.
• M1917 Chauchat: The US used a mix of Chauchats in .30-06 and 8 mm Lebel.
• Lewis gun: The US used a limited amount of Lewis guns chambered in .30-06 in both WWI and WWII.
• M1917 Machine Gun water-cooled
• M1919 Machine Gun, M37 Machine gun, and AN/M2 Aircraft machine gun. All air cooled machine guns feeding from belts
• M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, loading from detachable magazines.
• Marlin machine gun: Similar to the Colt-Browning machine gun ('Potato Digger'), but without 'digger' piston, and used mainly on aircraft.
• M1 Garand rifle, loading in an en bloc clip.
• M1941 Johnson Rifle, feeding from an internal rotary magazine.
• M1941 Johnson LMG, feeding from magazine.