USGI WW1 Rock Island Armory 7-19 Four Cell Peterson Khaki Mag Pouch MINT NEW

Description

We have a great item made for WW1 but was issued late in 1919 for the Peterson Magazines made for the Peterson Device.  Our pouch is dated 1919 and is Khaki in color, holds four magazines and is dated 7-19 It is still in GEM MINT CONDITION.
THE DEVICE
The unusual Pedersen device.
The Pedersen device, Springfield Armory Ordnance Corp.
The US Army’s primary service rifle, the famous M1903 Springfield, was a bolt action 30.06 based on the German Mauser action. This long-range beauty could fire up to up to 15 rounds per minute. Pedersen knew that the Army would never abandon this cherished rifle with the war on, so he engineered an aftermarket kit that could be placed into a (gently)
modified Springfield
to increase its rate of fire exponentially.
His device was a very simple top loading, blowback-operated pistol without a grip. Its barrel was the exact size, shape, and length of the standard .30-06 M1906 cartridge case. All the soldier had to do was pullout the regular turnbolt of his Springfield and any .30-06 ammo, insert the Pedersen Device, attach the device’s 40-round magazine, and let her rip. The device used the host rifle’s trigger group, sights, barrel, and stock. The device would cycle new rounds, and eject spent cases through a small port cut in the side of the rifle. Other modifications to the rifle were to the sear, magazine cut off, and trigger to allow the regular bolt or the Pedersen device to be used interchangeably. In tests a trained infantryman could rip off two full magazines in less than a minute—a 500% increase in the Springfield’s rate of fire.
Pedersen device installed on a 1903 rifle with magazine and box of rounds.
The Petersen device installed on a Springfield 1903. Note how high the forty round magazine stuck up even when angled at 45 degrees to allow the use of the sights.
To accommodate the device’s short action (it had to fit completely in the space occupied by the Springfield’s original bolt), it fired a short .30 caliber pistol sized round. This 7.62x20mm round, a cross between .32 ACP and the WWII-era .30 Carbine loads, held a 80-grain bullet over 3.5 grains of bull’s-eye powder which gave a blistering 1300fps out of a rifle barrel.
This allowed the Pedersen device rounds, although pipsqueak in size, to still be lethal and accurate enough to reach out to 300 yards. Overall, the device added 1.75 pounds to the weight of the standard Springfield rifle, but, best of all, all the all the infantryman in the field had to do to convert back over to .30.06 was pull out the device and insert the regular bolt and ammo. Two guns with the weight of one!
M1903 Mk 1 with Pedersen installed. Note the angle of the magazine.
Pedersen arranged for secret testing of the device for the Army in October 1917.  It was an instant hit.
BIG PLANS
The standard Infantry kit. The large pouches held Pedersen magazines and the metal case by the canteen held the device itself.
Type classified as “
US Automatic Pistol, Caliber .30, Model of 1918
” (well, it
was
technically a pistol), the Pedersen Device was ordered into mass production. Some 100,000 of the Mk.I version, for the Springfield 1903, were ordered for starters. Pedersen was asked to redesign follow-on Mk.II devices to fit the
M1917 Enfield rifle
as well as an Mk.III device to fit the Russian Mosin Nagant of which thousands were on hand. In all it was envisioned that no less than 500,000 of Mr. Pedersen’s conversion kits and at least 65-million rounds of ammunition would be made available by 1919 for the Allied offensive into Imperial Germany.
The plan was to issue frontline soldiers a Springfield or Enfield rifle, modified to accept a Pedersen Device, 100 rounds of .30-06, and the device itself with another 400 rounds of ammo for it. To speed up reloading as much as possible, each GI would be issued 10 magazines held in a pair of five-cell pouches. The device’s ammunition would be boxed in 40-round magazines. With Doughboys toting an impressive amount of firepower, supported by the new
Browning BAR
and
Mr. Thompson’s submachine gun
, the war would be over (over there) in a snap—the only problem was, it was over.
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