Thread: The new cartridge that makes the most sense to me.

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

well I have a dumb question for you learned buggers the old 8mm was popular when I was young for meat hunting as there was a few WW2 mausers around - dont hear much about it now but did anyone neck that down -say use a 7mm or 6.5 projectile - just interested as the 30-06 became well a lot of different calibers

The Europeans were so far ahead of anyone else in this regard, 6x57 in 1895, 6.5x57 1893, 7x57 1882, 8 x57 1888 then there's the 9, 9.3, and 10.75 all on the same case. The widely used .473 case head diameter is also a Mauser original dimension.
Some things are so old they're new again.