I dont know why they would have wanted to do it. All they are keeping the same is part ot the reciever, the wood and perhaps the trigger group? Barrel needs to be changet to allow for better cooling and the reciever has to be modified. It seems like it would have been easier to just have a dedicated belt fed design like the Browning 1919. I guess the army thought so too since the never converted on a large scale, if at all.

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