Thread: The new cartridge that makes the most sense to me.

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

well I have a dumb question for you learned buggers the old 8mm was popular when I was young for meat hunting as there was a few WW2 mausers around - dont hear much about it now but did anyone neck that down -say use a 7mm or 6.5 projectile - just interested as the 30-06 became well a lot of different calibers

The Europeans were so far ahead of anyone else in this regard, 6x57 in 1895, 6.5x57 1893, 7x57 1882, 8 x57 1888 then there's the 9, 9.3, and 10.75 all on the same case. The widely used .473 case head diameter is also a Mauser original dimension.
Some things are so old they're new again.

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

The Europeans were so far ahead of anyone else in this regard, 6x57 in 1895, 6.5x57 1893, 7x57 1882, 8 x57 1888 then there's the 9, 9.3, and 10.75 all on the same case. The widely used .473 case head diameter is also a Mauser original dimension.
Some things are so old they're new again.

You could make a good case for the 7x64 Brenneke from 1917 being the father of the .270 which came out in 1925. Winchester certainly knew about the earlier cartridge. The 7x64 is still chambered today.