While having special cartridge for aviation usage is not big deal, as they anyway had their own supply chain, having two different cartridge for repeating rifle does not look to be good solution (from quartermaster point of view). Summing up that they have 4 rifle-caliber (6,5 mm 7,35 mm 7,7 mm 8 mm) in production. Wait, Breda-SAFAT da 7.7 mm, used cartridge which was in fact ♳03 British, new rifle cartridge for Italian rifles was 7.35×51 mm which was rimless and has smaller bullet diameter, and they have also 8×59 Breda cartridge which was used only in machine guns like Breda Modello 37.
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Which was supposed to be anti-tank rifle, but clearly it was stop-gap solution before more effective portable anti-tank weapon come into production in form of Pansarvärnsgevär fm/42 (recoilless rifle). It was also shortly used in rifle, namely pansarvarnsgevar m/40 In case of Sweden cartridge situation was clear – 6,5×55 cartridge for rifles and light machine guns and (after it was introduced in 1932) 8×63 patron m/32 for other machine guns. It’s just machines that are harder to put down, requiring a cartridge with more “oomph”. The 6.5mms seemed to work well enough as man killers throughout both World Wars and a bevy of other imbroglios. (In fact, both had more than that, but that’s not germane here.) Which was how both countries ended up with two different “rifle caliber” rounds right through WW2. It’s worth noting that neither country considered changing their infantry rifles over to the new heavier calibers to be a particularly high priority, even when planning or engaging in wars of conquest in the 1930s. And in spite of the Zeke “officially” being armed with 20mm cannon in the wings and Italian fighters “officially” also having 12.7mm MGs, a lot of them went out with just the “rifle-caliber” MGs due to production bottlenecks in the heavier weapons. The 6.5mm was considered perfectly adequate for killing enemy infantrymen, but a Mitsubishi A6M2 “Zero” or Macchi M202 Folgore pilot needed something a bit more emphatic for dealing with enemy aircraft. In fact, their heavier caliber rounds were originally developed for use in heavy machine guns (HMGs), specifically in aircraft guns by the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Italian Regia Aeronautica. There’s still a story going around that Italy and Japan developed their 7.35mm “Carcano” and 7.7mm “Arisaka” rounds because of perceived deficiencies in killing power in the 6.5mms they used. I kept a straight face as I walked out with the Mauser, and never said a word. He wanted to know how much a 3x-9x scope, mounted, would cost him. When I bought mine, a guy in the store was buying a used Remington 700 in. 270 you can probably do with a 6.5 x 55mm, for a lot less money. 270 bullets, and so don’t lose velocity as quickly over longer ranges. as such, they have less base drag than the equivalent mass. 270 bullets in aerodynamics terms, we say they have a higher “fineness ratio”. Why? The 6.5mm bullets are longer relative to their diameter than the.
270 bullets have nearly identical velocities, trajectories, and energies out to 500 meters or so. 270 Winchester at the muzzle, but from 250 meters on out the 6.5 and. Fun fact with equivalent bullet weights, the 6.5 starts out about 150 F/S slower than a. Most of these rifles were rebuilt and rebarreled on the late 1930s, hence the 96/38 designation, which is marked on the barrel of mine. BTW, it weighs 8.9 pounds fully loaded, including a military sling on Uncle Mike’s QD swivels and rings.Īccording to the receiver ring marking, the action was made at Carl Gustaf in Eskilstuna in 1904- coincidentally the year my father was born. All its components were mentioned in one or both of those articles. I’m guessing it was put together in the mid-1970s, because the 1976 Gun Digest had articles on both the 6.5 x 55mm round (“The 6.5 x 55- An Old Swede”) and lightweight rifles in its power and weight class for mountain hunting (“The Practical Light Sporter”). Fajen Premier Grade Monte Carlo stock, Williams irons, and a Bushnell Custom 3x-9x in Weaver steel rings and mounts. I have a sporterized M96/38 I bought for $165 about 25 years ago.