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- From: cash@convex.com (Peter Cash)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: 7.62 Mauser vs 7.62 Tokarev & the CZ-52
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.033845.13885@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 14:24:33 GMT
- Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: The Instrumentality
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- In article <1992Nov20.202541.19606@michael.apple.com> ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith) writes:
- ...
- #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?
-
- The .30 Luger (also known as the 7.65 Parabellum-Pistole and 7.65 Swiss) is
- dimensionally similar to 7.65 Mauser/Tokarev, but is a lower power
- cartridge. The overall length of the cartridge is 29.8 mm, as opposed to
- 34.7 mm for the Mauser. Velocity for the 6 gram bullet is 396 meters per
- second, as opposed to 457 mps for the 5.5 gram bullet of the Mauser. (From
- Ezell's _Handguns of the World_)
-
- Interestingly, the .30 luger is the precursor of the 9mm parabellum. When
- the Luger factory became cognizant of the demand for larger caliber pistols
- by the world's military organizations, they necked up the case of the 7.65
- parabellum to take a 9mm bullet.
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