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However, firing the 7.62×25 out of a Mauser C96 is not recommended, as it is too powerful and it may damage the pistol. Firearms that use the 7.62×25 cartridge can reliably fire 7.63×25mm rounds. [9] Hornady makes an 85-grain .309" "XTP" bullet that functions well in all these pistols.
The below table gives a list of firearms that can fire the 7.62×39mm cartridge, first developed and used by the Soviet Union in the late 1940s. [1] The cartridge is widely used due to the worldwide proliferation of Russian SKS and AK-47 pattern rifles, as well as RPD and RPK light machine guns.
Pages in category "7.62×25mm Tokarev submachine guns" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
The M240 machine gun, officially the Machine Gun, 7.62 mm, M240, is the U.S. military designation for the FN MAG, [6] a family of belt-fed, gas-operated medium machine guns that chamber the 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge. [1] The M240 has been used by the United States Armed Forces since the late 1970s.
The CZ 52 pistol is a roller-locked short recoil–operated, detachable box magazine–fed, single-action, semi-automatic pistol chambered for the 7.62×25mm Tokarev cartridge (the gun was originally designed for 9×19mm Parabellum caliber but due to political pressures had to be redesigned for the then-standard Soviet pistol cartridge).
7.62×25mm Tokarev submachine guns (15 P) Pages in category "7.62×25mm Tokarev firearms" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Designed primarily as a coaxial machine gun by the Rock Island Arsenal and produced by General Electric, the M73 was developed as a replacement for the M1919A4E1, M1919A5, and M37 machine guns that continued to serve in the immediate post-World War II environment. The Machine Gun, 7.62-MM, M73 was officially adopted in 1959. It is an air-cooled ...
In ‘Safety of guns (No. 4)’ in the above document, Ito does not directly express a negative view of the Type 62 machine gun, but points out that ‘the Lebel and Nagant (7.0 mm wall thickness) have thin chambers, but the casings taper strongly and the lumen pressure is low’ and that the advantage of a thick chamber is the ‘lower ...