Cartridges

  At the end of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, the decision was made that the French population should be better prepared for war. The 11x59R Gras was adopted in 1874, but the weapon was heavy, especially for school boys. Monsieur Andreux, a gunsmith in Paris...

The 6mm Francotte was originally thouht to be a shortened version of the Velo Dog Revolver cartridge but it is a separate cartridge identified from the SFM factory drawing #10150 dated 1912 as being used in a .22 Francotte Carbine Rifle. (Dixon Ref. FR19)   ...

This is the prototype version

   This is the second of the two SAKO factory experimentals produced for “Running Deer” target shooting. Based on the 6.5x55 Swedish case and is known only with this h/s. (SC45)

   Also known as the 5.7x51 Finnish Running Deer Experimental. This was one of two experimental cartridges by SAKO c1958-1960. (SC44). K = Kokovaippa = FMJ

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Relatively scarce Austrian Target cartridge. Only ever produced by Georg Roth (Austria) or Jiri Roth (Czech) from around 1905-06 until about 1910.      

Introduced circa 1890 by MUNITIONS UND WAFFENFABRIKEN, SÖMMERDA (M&W-S), this cartridge continued in production until circa 1920. It was relatively popular and served as a rook, carbine and target pistol cartridge. Unheadstamped versions of the cartridge are...

  Introduced in 1906 by Georg Roth, this cartridge remained in production until 1914. Often confused with the 5.7x33 Dreyse cartridge, but it has a larger case diameter. It is only known to exist with the GR/*/*/*/ headstamp. It was also chambered as a pistol...

The 5.6x70R KLAUS was developed around 2008 - 2009 and is a 5.6mm version of the 6x70R (SC57) which itself was a 6mm version of the 6.5x70R (GSP20). It was produced for (and possibly designed by) Bernhard Klaus of Wiederladen Klaus, Erding, Germany. (Dixon Ref. W116)....

Introduced by Ernest August Vom Hofe in 1934 and remained in mainstream commercial production until about 2000. Cartridges manufactured until 1939 were produced by DWM. Runs of the cartridge have been undertaken by Horneber and Wolgang Romey subsequently. The case was...

Introduced by Ernest August Vom Hofe in 1934 and remained in mainstream commercial production until about 1995. Cartridges manufactured until 1939 were produced by DWM. Runs of the cartridge have been undertaken by Horneber and Wolgang Romey subsequently. The case was...

    These are also cases from Schurk. Introduced by RWS in 1964 but discontinued by them around 2003. It was also adopted by Hirtenberger until around 1998. Based on the 6.5x57R case necked down from the prototype developed by Munich gunsmith, Adam Schurk in...

Introduced by RWS in 1964 and is still in production by them. It was also adopted by Hirtenberger but discontinued by them in 1998. The cartridge is based on the 8x57 M88 case. It was based on the prototype developed by Munich gunsmith, Adam Schurk in the late 1930’s.

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This is a rimless version of the 22 Savage cartridge (T75) and was listed as #545A in the DWM casebook. Examples are rare and have only recently (2015) been discovered. It was at first not believed to exist as there is no US rimless version of the 22 Savage listed....

Introduced by DWM (DWM   K Y  5.6x50R MAG) in 1966 and was designed by Günter Frères of IWK/DWM for Friedrick W Heym. The cartridge was generally thought to have been introduced in 1968 even though the DWM “K-Y” date stamp indicates 1966 production. The...

This is the rimless version of the 5.6x50R Magnum developed by Günter Frères in 1970 and it was introduced by DWM in 1971 with cases with the K T date stamp.  It was less popular than the 5.6x50R Magnum upon which it was based and production by DWM ceased in 1972...

   S & B produced this cartridge in small quantities during 1955. Based on the 308 Win case necked down and Used in ZG-47 rifles. In the beginning of the 1960's the Americans brought up their nearly identical .22 – 250 Remington which effectively killed...

   Based on the standard military 7.62x39 Russian M43 case lengthened to 45.5 mm in an endeavour to increase the velocity.  The cartridge has been in existence since 1967 and was designed as a match target cartridge for use by the USSR biathlon...

A 5.6x42R Peterlongo cartridge was shown in a 'Richard Mahrholdt & Sohn - Tiroler Waffenfabrik Peterlongo' pricelist #65 1939 and it resembles a 6.5x41.5R (25-20 Single Shot: T78) necked down to 5.6mm. This cartridge was first described by Heinrich Kohlmann who...

This cartridge, together with a 6.5mm version was introduced by Russian designer M.N. Bljum at the Moscow hunting exhibition of 1957 and is based on the  7.62x38r Nagant revolver cartridge adapted for a light rifle or rifle/shotgun drilling guns. (Dixon SV5)...

The earliest reference to the 5,6 Vierling was in the RWS/Utendoerffer c1900 catalog. It was listed in the section under Winchester cartridges as effectively the same as the 22 WCF. It was intriduced for use in Vierling rifles, a form of European Drilling rifle with...

This French centre fire cartridge was listed in 1899 drawings as both for Carbines and Reduction purposes. There is very little other info available for this cartridge. (Dixon Ref. FR76)                    Shown at...

See also Metric Military Rifle

       This high velocity experimental cartridge was an early German-British effort. The case type (DWM 469A) was manufactured in Germany by DWM. The cartridges were loaded by the British firm STURTEVANT ENGINEERING on contract for the...

   This is the rimmed version of the 5x50 Magnum and is based on the 5.6x50R RWS case.

   New development based on the 5.6x50 RWS case

This small Austrian target cartridge may have been developed either for a target rifle or pistol. The headstamp style would probably be around the 1890's    Cartridge shown below at 200%

This is also based on the 22 Hornet case and is the sporting counterpart of the 17 Libra. It was designed for use in small break open rifles.   

Designed as a small hunting/sport shooting rifle, but also with an eye to becoming a semi-auto or full auto PDW (Personal Defense Weapon). On the website it is claimed that it is able to penetrate “steel board” at 10m, but no mention is made of the thickness of the...

This cartridge is a half scale version of the 7.9x57 (8x57 Mauser). It was produced by Léon Crottet in 1991. The first specimen is a ball round, second specimen is a wooden bulleted blank and the bottom round is a plastic dummy.         Shown...