so its done

my teutonic cartridge trio

10,75x68, 9,3x64 and 11,2x60

it feels allways good when a long work comes to its end! ch4d told me the die sets are on the way.

what have we find out?
the Mas 36 as a hunting rifle was made probably between 1946/47 and 1951 as a low budget rifle for the hunter who had lost his rifle in the times of WW2 and was needing an inexpensive replacement.
the rifle was made in 7x57 Mauser, 8x60S and 10,75x68 but there was a problem with the 7x57.
the good old mauser cartridge was actually banned for being a military round but this only in france and not in the colonys and for a short time it was not banned in france also. probably in 1951 Mas stop to made the rifle maybe because the war in indochine became to hot and they need the workforce only for this.
it seems Mas had a large stock of parts and semi manufactured rifles. the 7x57 Mauser rifles were rechambered by the french gunmaker Fournier for his 7x54 Fournier wildcat, a 7,5x54 based cartridge which cut the old 7mm Mauser chamber. it seems Fournier also build new rifles by using old Mas parts. some of his rifles have still Mas serial number but other were made by using an unnumbered receiver and get a new serial number.
another possiblity was to rechamber the rifle after the 7x57 was again outlawed for the 284 Winchester, a cartridge with bigger measurments then 7mm Mauser again. this was done by the french gunmaker Sterna but cant be older than 1963 when the cartridge came on the market. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.284_Winchester

till now I have find
8 rifles in 7x54, ex 7x57
4 rifles in 284 WIN, ex 7x57
4 rifles in 8x60S
2 rifles, another cartridge

9 rifles in 10,75x68

of course the 10,75 is the rifle that interest me the most

original 7x57 Mauser rifles are very rare today and I have only heard of one.

this post will go on so long I see a new example, thank you for your attention