I was just graze reading Hatchers book on the Garand development and came across an interesting piece.
It was between Pedersen, Garand, Bang & Colt and apparently according to the book they had 500,000 Pedersen receivers and 69 million .276 rounds ready for delivery in 1919.
So the war finished in '18 to which the govt scrapped the order for the rifles given the rarity of these rifles and ammo then what happened to it all.
Half a million receivers I guess not being completed rifles got the chopped up but 69 million rounds of ammo well that's a good deal of crackers.
They certainly designed the Garand rifle for the troops at the pointy end.