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Nakihunter
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Re: India/Pak/9.3x62???????
04/06/08 05:56 PM

The caliber called 315 in India is the 8X57. The Indian ordnance factory used to refurbish military Mauser 98 rifles with maple stocks and sell them as sporters. I have seen their catalogue in the 1970's. The reputation of the workmanship & barrel quality was not very good.

To answer 9ThreeXFifty7's question, without doubt the most popular sporting caliber was 12 bore - whether with bird shot, SGs, LGs or Ball. I have seen old Eley paper cartridges with a variety of slugs.

* Simple round ball that rattled in the case with a cardboard wad under the roll crimp - the wad looked like a washer as it had a .25 inch hole in the middle!
* Lethal ball - a strange looking slug made of 4 pieces of lead that were soldered together - the solder joint stood proud. This was supposed to break up within the animal & create a larger wound channel.
* Conical ball - like a foster slug but no wanes on the side.
* Another strange looking slug (I don't remember what it was called) that was a lead tube with wanes on the side. This was not a hollow point - it had a hole right through it & was reputed to be explosive.

I have no idea what the most popular rifle caliber in India was before 1947. I can't even begin to guess!!

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India/Pak/9.3x62???????	9.3x57	01/06/08 11:27 PM
Re: India/Pak/9.3x62???????	rigbymauser	06/06/08 05:21 AM
Re: India/Pak/9.3x62???????	9.3x57	06/06/08 02:24 PM
Re: India/Pak/9.3x62???????	lancaster	06/06/08 07:08 PM
Re: India/Pak/9.3x62???????	peter	06/06/08 09:02 PM
Re: India/Pak/9.3x62???????	9.3x57	06/06/08 10:52 PM
Re: India/Pak/9.3x62???????	lancaster	07/06/08 02:49 AM
Re: India/Pak/9.3x62???????	NitroX	06/06/08 03:58 PM
Re: India/Pak/9.3x62???????	mehulkamdar	04/06/08 07:02 AM
Re: India/Pak/9.3x62???????	Nakihunter	04/06/08 05:56 PM
Re: India/Pak/9.3x62???????	lancaster	04/06/08 09:00 PM
Re: India/Pak/9.3x62???????	Nakihunter	05/06/08 09:56 AM
Re: India/Pak/9.3x62???????	lancaster	04/06/08 09:13 PM
Re: India/Pak/9.3x62???????	Mike_Bailey	04/06/08 09:18 PM
Re: India/Pak/9.3x62???????	lancaster	04/06/08 08:51 PM
Re: India/Pak/9.3x62???????	88MauSporter	02/06/08 04:58 AM
Re: India/Pak/9.3x62???????	Nakihunter	02/06/08 03:18 PM
Re: India/Pak/9.3x62???????	tophet1	02/06/08 07:54 PM
Re: India/Pak/9.3x62???????	9.3x57	02/06/08 09:54 PM
Re: India/Pak/9.3x62???????	lancaster	03/06/08 06:15 AM
Re: India/Pak/9.3x62???????	lancaster	07/06/08 02:55 AM
Re: India/Pak/9.3x62???????	Nakihunter	07/06/08 10:34 AM
Post deleted by NitroX	Anonymous	09/06/08 11:31 PM
Re: India/Pak/9.3x62???????	dale	12/06/08 02:44 PM
Re: India/Pak/9.3x62???????	NitroX	03/06/08 06:17 PM

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