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The 7.92×57mm Mauser (designated as the 8mm Mauser or 8×57mm by the SAAMI [2] and 8 × 57 IS by the C.I.P. [3]) is a rimless bottlenecked rifle cartridge. The 7.92×57mm Mauser cartridge was adopted by the German Empire in 1903–1905, and was the German service cartridge in both World Wars. In the first half of the 20th century, the 7.92× ...
Mauser Model 1889: Bolt-action rifle Germany: 1914–1918 Rechambered from the original 7.65×53mm Mauser. Mauser Standardmodell: Bolt-action rifle Germany: 1924–1960s Derived from the Gewehr 98. Karabiner 98k: Bolt-action rifle Germany: 1935–present Gewehr 98/40: Bolt-action rifle Germany: 1940–1945 German-contract 7.92×57mm Mauser ...
Mauser Model 1888 (Gew 88) ... Caliber & feed: 7.92x57mm Mauser & 5-round clip with fixed integral magazine. 65. Infantry Model 1889 (Belgian Mauser) ©Armémuseum - Original / License.
Mauser-Werke various others 7.92x57mm Mauser: Wehrmacht Waffen-SS: Sniper version of the Gewehr 98 Rifle. Gewehr 98/40: Fémárú, Fegyver- és Gépgyár: 7.92×57mm Mauser: Wehrmacht: Adaptation of Hungarian 35M rifle to fire 7.92×57mm Mauser ammunition and to mount German bayonets. 138,400 produced from 1941 to 1944. [20] Karabiner 98a ...
The 9×57mm Mauser is a cartridge based on the 7.92×57mm Mauser. It uses the identical 57 mm-long cartridge case, with the same shoulder angle, but necked up to accept a 9 mm-diameter bullet. Ballistically - but not dimensionally - it is indistinguishable from the 9×56mm Mannlicher–Schoenauer. It is currently regarded as a semi-obsolete ...
Instead of the Dragunov's 7,62×54mmR chambering it uses the 7.92×57mm Mauser a.k.a. the 7.9mm or 8×57mm IS round. The Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) adopted a 7.9 mm Cartridge, Ball M49 variant, designated as M49, as infantry ammunition at the end of the 1940s and later a 7.9 mm Cartridge, Sniper, with Universal ball M75, as sniper ammunition ...
Like the 7.65×53mm Mauser introduced in 1889, he had developed the 7×57mm Mauser cartridge for use with the new smokeless propellant, introduced as Poudre B in the 1886 pattern 8×50mmR Lebel, which started a military rifle ammunition revolution. At the time of its development 7×57mm Mauser was a high-performance smokeless-powder cartridge.
Standard 7.92×57mm Mauser armor-piercing K bullet introduced in mid-1917. Note the tool-steel core protruding from the rear of the bullet to form a boat tail. A tracer variation of the K bullet. The K bullet (from German 'Kern', core) was a 7.92×57mm Mauser armor-piercing bullet with a tool steel core designed to be fired from a standard ...