I doubt that the yokel who hid the rifle "dropped it" on the floor....
and Alyea's camera caught the brass clip in the magazine on film.
The fact that the clip was still in the rifle raises more questions. We know that the official tale says that the live round was the last round in the clip and it was in the chamber.... And since that clip drops out of the magazine when the last round is stripped from the clip by the forward stroke of the bolt .....then that clip should have been on the floor in the "Sniper's Nest".
Alyea's camera caught the brass clip in the magazine on film.That’s very debatable.The official tale also says that the clip in this rifle had a tendency to get stuck rather than dropping out.
If you look at the cutaway animation, it appears that the elevator contacts the cartridge in a location that is closer to the center of the cartridge.
Not so sure. The wavy extremity of the elevator arm rubs up towards the base of the cartridge (rear of centre anyway) - after all, that is but an animation. I could be onto something! There is our last bullet in the clip?
It really isn't debatable ...because we have photos of Lt Day carrying the carcano out of the TSBD and the clip is quite visible.....So it must have been in the magazine as Day dusted the rifle for prints.
It really isn't debatable ...because we have photos of Lt Day carrying the carcano out of the TSBD and the clip is quite visible.....So it must have been in the magazine as Day dusted the rifle for prints.Perhaps James Hackerott can work with the Alyea film and post one of his good photos...
Unless it just got stuck in there before they carried it out.