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Re: Machinegun Weights



According to Shawn Mulock, on Wed, 04 Jul 2001 the word on the street was...

> > 7.92x57 mm, often called "8 mm Mauser" in the US and some other places.
> 
> Isn't this due to the difference in where the measurements are taken from?

Not sure... I once read a very goo book about German rifles from 1871-1945
which explained the 7.92 mm round in-depth, and from what I remember just
about every measurement possible in the 8 mm range is involved in it
_somewhere_ except for the actual 7.92 mm :)

> I.e. the Germans measure from the land crest to land crest and (almost)
> everybody else measures from groove trough to groove trough?

I thought it was the Americans measuring differently from almost everyone
else, but the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. (He said, trying
to prevent another near-flame war ;)

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