"There are complaints that cartridges do not slide easily enough into the magazine, and do not always lie there correctly. One charger full (five rounds) is all that can be got comfortably into a magazine at a time, and there is some difficulty in forcing in the second charger full. There does not seem to be any necessity for the magazine to hold more than five rounds, as is the case with many foreign arms. To insert a charger full after expenditure of five rounds is the work of less than a second, and if the magazine is made for five rounds only it will hardly protrude below the body of the rifle. Arms could then be carried at the slope or trail without coming in the way of the shoulder or hand, as the present awkward magazine does."
(с)ответ ответ на анкету военного министерства, от главнокомандующего британскими войсками в Индии лорда Китченера, 1905 год.