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AM scrounge at old house...

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DavHut

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...didnt produce much, but a good time was had by all. 1951-D Wheatie and whirlygig, shotshells and odd cartridges were the lookie-stuff.

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Judging by the cases, which rung in hard between nickle and cent, I'd say the odd, bottleneck cartridges were .30 Mauser. Possibly, .30 Tokarev, too, and the two are very similar. I'd say .30 Mauser. Anybody got ideas?:shrug:

This old home, now quite derelict and spooky, has allowed me to "scare up" a bit of silver, over the years - although none today. I think I'll "haunt" it for a few more days and see what turns up.
 
The cartridge cases are .30 Mauser, according to measurements. It turns out that there is so little difference between the .30 Mauser, 7.62 Tokarev and .30 Luger, that they are dimensionally the same round. Only the pressures and hence the velocities vary, with the Czech TT TOkarev loadings being the "hottest".
In Asia, they rate body armor effectiveness by it's "Tok Rating," ie, how resistant it is to the impact of the 7.62 Tokarev round. At 1600-1800 fps in the hotter loadings, this is a smokin' perforator, to be sure.
 
Yeah many years ago I had a 7.62 Argentine Mauser that I sporterized and it shot and performed just like our 7 MM. Real deadly, tack driving, round. Great for deer, elk, and even moose.


Bill
 
...(no pun intended) its a handgun round, being only 25MM long. The official designation is 7.63x25 mm. It was designed for the old and venerable Broomhandle Mauser, seen here:
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It IS .30 cal, though, otherwise known in metric form as 7.62mm. For example, the good old .30-30, popular in Europe as well as here, is known in metric guise as 7.62x51R, the "R" indicating a rim.

The common metric equivalents of our 'caliber' designations goes like this

5.56mm = .22" (cal)
6mm = .243"
6.5mm = .264
7mm = .284"
7.62mm = .30"
8mm = .321"
9mm = .355" = .38 = .358
10mm = .40"
11.43mm = .45"
13mm = .50"
 
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