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Old 01-29-2010, 07:51 AM
Nyles Nyles is offline
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The Mars was too big, too powerful, too complicated and too expensive. It also had the unfortunate feature of ejecting cases straight backwards. They only made about 80, making it the holy grail for a British autoloader collector.

I always espescially enjoy reading contemporary reviews of it:

"Nobody who fired it once ever wished to do it again."
"He allowed his ideas to wander in the direction of high ballistics, and his pistols accordingly took the form of young cannon."
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