Collecting Ammunition

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Back in the 19th century weird was the norm. Here it is between a 7mm Pinfire Belgium revolver and a S&W model 1 1/2 32 S&W Single Action Revolver.

[Biglever]

That's the stuff you see in museums .nice

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When the U. S. in the 1950s decided to change to a new cartridge 7.62 X 51 MM Winchester adopted it commercially as the 308 Winchester. and necked it down to 6MM as the 243 Winchester and opened it up to .358 as .358 Winchester in 1955. In 1980 Remington necked it down 7 MM and called it 7MM-08 REMINGTON. In 2002 Remington necked the 308 Win. down to 6.5 mm and called it the .260 Remington. In 2005 FEDERAL opened up the 308 Win. to .338 and called it the .338 FEDERAL. So there are 6 different commercial cartridges from the U S Military 7.62 x 51 MM.

[Biglever]

Wonder what was wrong with the first one.

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I agree that there is nothing wrong with the 7.62 X 51 mm and the M 14 that I was issued in the U S Army in W. Germany was a wonderfully accurate Semi auto rifle but of course the idiot switch that could be added to was worthless because it was impossible to have a 10 lb. 700 rpm machine rifle of that high power round. The U S S R AK 47 7.62 x39 with a 400 rpm rate could be controlled. So could the M 16 with the 5.56 x 45 mm. But Ammunition & Rifle love to try something different so they can sell more Rifles and ammunition. I have rifles in both the 308 Winchester and 243 Winchester that I really like. I do have a rifle in '. 358 Caliber but on the 30-06 case rather than the 308 Win. case, the 35 Whelen in a 700 Remington rifle.

[Biglever]

I do like the 7mm08, and have had a couple 243's
They all do the job.

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One of my fellow Hunter Ed. instructors also considers the 7mm-08 the ideal deer rifle. I really have to laugh about the rediscovering the 6.5 mm Bullet rounds that have been recently discovered. Both Japan and Italy entered WW2 with 6.5 mm rifles and during the war went with new rounds that were around 30 Cal. The 6.5 was a very good size bullet that accounted for a lot of game all over the world. I and my brother did a lot of shooting and reloading for his 6.5 x 55 Swedish Mauser.
I do know that he got a large black bear and a number of deer with that rifle. I had a 6.5 Arasaka Japanese Carbine but when I got a chance to buy my 243 Win. Remington 600 Carbine the Jap carbine went toward the Remington 600. Now there are lots of new 6.5 mm cartridges.

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I won this group of cartridge boxes in an online auction that were advertised as being empty, partial, or mixed contents. I am pleased with what I got as there were some really odd cartridges in a couple of them. The 30 Remington box which was Remington's answer to the 30-30 Winchester is almost full. Same power but not interchangeable.

[Biglever]

That's quite a collection, iam a big fan of the 8MM
Mauser. Have had several.
I picked up a couple of boxs of new never opened bullets
8mm Herters 180gr. Rn. That I started to reload some.
Don't know how old they are, but in like new condition

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The 8 x 57 mm (7.9 x 57) was a favorite of mine and I had an Egyptian Hakim semi auto rifle in that round. I loaded that round with my buddy that also had a few rifles for that round from time to time. The NORMA 8 x 60s cartridges are very interesting because after WWI it was illegal for German citizens to own a rifle in 8 x 57 so the answer was to ream the chamber a bit deeper to fit the 8 x 60 S Cartridge thus making the rifle civilian legal. The other Norma Cartridge Box held some 9.3 x 62 mm rounds that are a European round that is very rare in this country. It is not even mentioned in the last few editions of "Cartridges Of The World."