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- From: erudnick@pica.army.mil (FSAC-SID)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: 7.62 Mauser vs 7.62 Tokarev & the CZ-52
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- Date: 24 Nov 92 00:03:07 GMT
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- Peter Cash 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
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- The 7.63 Mauser and 7.62 Tokarev are dimensionally similar to the point of
- being interchangeable, and have 25mm long cases. The 7.65 Parabellum uses
- a 22mm long cartridge case, and has the same overall length as 9mm Parabellum.
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- Ed Rudnicki erudnick@pica.army.mil All disclaimers apply
- Protect the Second Amendment - boycott Ruger products
- Geordi: "...it's like the laws of physics went right out the
- window." Q: "And why shouldn't they? They're so inconvenient."
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