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- From: ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: 7.62 Mauser vs 7.62 Tokarev & the CZ-52
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.202541.19606@michael.apple.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 22:33:09 GMT
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- In article <9211181301.aa24173@claudius.pica.army.mil> erudnick@pica.army.mil (FSAC-SID) writes:
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- #Donald R. Newcomb writes:
- ##I'm thinking of adding a CZ-52 pistol to my collection. This piece, as I
- ##understand, fires a high-power version of the 7.62 Tokarev round. I am
- ##not exactly clear on what is required to reload for this gun. "Cartridges
- ##of the World" seems to indicate that the Tokarev is just a different
- ##loading of the 7.62 Mauser. Would I just use 7.62 Mauser dies and brass
- ##to load for the CZ-52?
- #
- #
- #While there are allegedly some dimensional differences, you can indeed
- #use the 7.63mm Mauser dies to load Tokarev ammo. The difference is in
- #the power level, with the Mauser load being weakest, the Tokarev hotter,
- #and the Czech M48 hotter still. The Czech load gets about 100 ft/s more
- #than the Tokarev with the same bullet.
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- Hmmm... And how do they all relate to the small Lugar round? Was it
- a 7.62 mm also? That is, is the '.30 cal' Lugar in any way the same
- as the 7.62 mm Mauser?
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