kuduae
(.400 member)
20/06/11 06:48 AM
Re: another M 95 sporter

The old Austro-Hungarian 8x50R Mannlicher M1893 is still made, though under the name .315 IOF by the Indian Ordnance Factories.
See:
http://ofbindia.nic.in/products/data/ammunition/sc/14.htm
It was for many years the only centerfire sporting rifle cartridge made in that country, but it's history there goes back to before WW1: When the British banned the civilian use of the .303 military cartridge in their colony, BSA started to chamber Lee-Speed sporters for the non-interchangeable "foreign" Austrian round. The IOF at Ishapore still makes quite crude "sporters" chambered for the .315 IOF,
http://ofbindia.nic.in/products/data/weapons/wsc/5.htm
while the cartridges are made at their (in-)famous ammunition factory at Dum-Dum near Calcutta.



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