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: Follow up question: If Google can be trusted, Normalladung translates to 'Normal Charge'. Would this be a cartridge designation/name or a reference to the bullet/powder combination for which the sights are regulated?

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Here's an excerpt from a previous post wherein noted authority Kuduae (Axel Eichendorff) answered a similar query. Herr Eichendorff is a Saxon forester who really knows his stuff regarding 'classic' Continental firearms (he uses an M1910 on the job):

"From March 13, 1938 to April 1945 Austria was part of Hitler's 3rd Reich,hence the inscriptions "Made in Germany" and "Waffenfabrik Steyr". Of course German rulings were to be followed by Steyr too. The German 1940 proof law required, for the first time, all guns being marked with the cartridge designation instead of model numbers or cryptic bore dimensions. So Steyrcalled their old proprietary 6.5 and 8mm cartridges Normal to tell them apart from the "high velocity" chamberings of the M1925, where they stamped "8x60 Magnum" even in the years before.There ought to be German eagle/N proofmarks and a proof date below the woodline too. "

More for your translator:
municion.org

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