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Greetings Dicko and all,
The development of smokeless powder military rifle cartridges was extremely rapid. The French started it al with their Lebel rifle and its 8mm smokeless cartridge in 1886....

Greetings,
The 8x57 was introduced in 1888 and was not a Mauser cartridge originally. The 7x57 was introduced in 1892 following the 7.65 x 53 in 1889.
Regards Grandpamac.

You missed the father of all three, the 8 x 57. You can still buy rifles and decent ammo for it in Europe. Add the 7 x 64 as it is hard to buy 7 x 57 new rifles these days. The list goes on for quite...

Greetings All,
Regarding my hypothetical .22 cartridge it seems it already exists, at least in wildcat form. It is called the .22 Bench Rest and was developed in the 1960's. It is just the 6mm BR...

It is good for younger people to know and be reminded that centre fire cartridge development was largely complete by 1900. Improvement continued with better components, especially powder, but we...

That was the .225 Winchester. Came out in 1964 and flopped. It had the rim turned down so it would chamber with a standard medium bolt face. A 1 in 14 twist as well. It's short neck and throat would...

Anybody who thinks the .303 is gutless never shot anything with one or saw the results afterwards.
Good to see your name again Bumblefoot.
GPM.

Greetings All,
It is going to be interesting to see what happens over the next 20 years or so (especially for those that are likely to live that long). The ranks of 6, 6.5 and 7mm cartridges are...

Exactly.

Greetings Micky Duck and blip,
The reason we have so may new and near duplicate cartridges is because new and different sells. Very few of the new wonder cartridges that have sprouted like weeds...