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Norway adopted the Krag–Jørgensen M/1894 rifle, while Sweden adopted the Mauser m/1896 rifle design that was based on a Mauser service rifle designed around the 7×57mm Mauser cartridge. The 6.5×55mm cartridge has a smaller bullet diameter and lower free recoil than other full-power service rifle cartridges like the .303 British, 7.92×57mm ...
Swedish 5,56 mm ptr 5, 5.56×45mm NATO; Swedish 6,5 mm m/94, 6.5×55mm Mauser; 7,62 mm ptr 10, 7.62×51mm NATO; 8 mm m/39, 7.92×57mm; 8 mm m/89, 8×58mmR Danish Krag; 8x63 mm patron m/32, 8×63mm Swedish MG; 12,7 mm m/40, 12.7×81mmSR Breda; 12,7 mm m/45, .50 BMG; 13,2 mm m/39, 13.2×99mm Hotchkiss
All Swedish Mausers other than trials rifles were chambered for the 6.5×55mm Swedish cartridge, and all Swedish-made actions were proof-tested with a single 6.5×55mm proof round developing approximately 455 MPa (65,992 psi) piezo pressure (55,000 CUP).
6×57mm Mauser 1895 Germany R 6×57mm 2600 0.236 57mm aka 6.2×57mm RWS. Necked down 6.5×57mm. The 6mm Remington is a carbon copy. 6×62mm Freres 1983 Germany 1 R 6×62mm 3460 2260 0.243 62mm also 6×62mmR, based on 9.3×62mm case. 6mm Lee Navy: 1895 US 0 R 6×60mmSR 2560 1629 0.236 60mm
While the Ag m/42 fired the 6.5×55mm cartridge, Egypt owned large stockpiles of 8×57mm Mauser ammunition, much of it left behind from World War II. To take advantage of the large stockpile, the Hakim was further re-engineered to accept the larger cartridge, which also necessitated the addition of a permanent, non removable muzzle brake to ...
The 6.5×52mm Carcano was the first to be officially adopted of a class of similar smallbore military rifle cartridges which included the 6.5×50mm Arisaka (Japan), 6.5×53mmR Mannlicher (Romania/Netherlands), 6.5×54mm Mannlicher–Schönauer (Greece), 6.5×55mm Swedish Mauser (also Norwegian Krag–Jørgensen), and the Portuguese 6.5×58mm ...
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The round of ammunition is also known as 6.5×55 Krag, 6.5×55 Scan (Scandinavia), 6.5×55 Mauser, 6.5×55 Swedish, and 6.5×55 Nor (Norwegian), but they all referred to the same cartridge. Some historians have assumed that there was a difference in cartridge blueprint measurements between Swedish and Norwegian 6.5×55mm ammunition, but this ...