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7.62×38mmR (also known as 7.62 mm Nagant and Cartridge, Type R) is an ammunition cartridge designed for use in the Russian Nagant M1895 revolver. A small number of experimental submachine guns (e.g., Tokarev 1927), designed by Fedor Tokarev, were also produced in a 7.62 mm Nagant chambering. [4] None, however, were accepted into Soviet service ...
The Nagant M1895 is a seven-shot, gas-seal revolver designed and produced by Belgian industrialist Léon Nagant for the Russian Empire.. The Nagant M1895 was chambered for a proprietary cartridge, 7.62×38mmR, and features a gas-seal system, in which the cylinder moves forward when the gun is cocked, to close the gap between the cylinder and the barrel, providing a boost to the muzzle velocity ...
Nagant M1895 7 shot revolver 7.62×38mmR (7.62 mm Nagant) 1895–present still used by some police and security forces Single action "Private's model", early and WW1 production, most converted to double action Interwar. Double action "Officer's model", produced pre-WW1, WW1, interwar and WW2 Suppressed model produced after 1931
Nagant M1895 (known as the Περίστροφον M1895) Ruby M1914; Rifles. Berthier M1892, M1892/16, M1907/15 and M1916; Gras M1874 and M1874/14; Lebel M1886/93; Mannlicher M1895; Mannlicher-Schönauer M1903 and M1903/14 (Standard issue rifle) Machine guns. Chauchat M1915; Colt-Browning M1895/14; Hotchkiss M1914; Saint Étienne M1907/16 ...
The M1895 was made for export as well; the Russians ordered several thousand M1895 machine guns in 1914 in 7.62×54mmR caliber for use in World War I. In .303 British caliber, the M1895/14 saw service in the United Kingdom and France. The M1895 was also sold in 7×57mm Mauser caliber for use by various countries in South America. [9]
Antique firearms can be divided into two basic types: muzzle-loading and cartridge firing. Muzzleloading antique firearms are not generally owned with the intent of firing them (although original muzzleloaders can be safely fired, after having them thoroughly inspected), but instead are usually owned as display pieces or for their historic value.
In addition to the Mosin–Nagant rifle, Belgian industrialist Léon Nagant, who was a co-inventor of, developed the Nagant M1895 revolver. The revolver has a unique "gas-seal" system that provides a boost to muzzle velocity as well as make the weapon suppressed. The sidearm, like the Nagant rifle, was produced in the Soviet era as well, and ...
7.62×38mmR is used only in the Nagant M1895 revolver..32 Long Colt – originally chambered for small-frame Colt revolvers and the Marlin model 1892 rifle, this cartridge uses a heeled bullet with a case the same diameter as the major diameter of the bullet. It shares dimensions with the .32 rimfire cartridge of the same length.