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03-21-2024 08:52 AM
# ADS
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Yes they did...they came out in Cartridges
.30-06 Springfield
7.92×57mm Mauser
7×57mm Mauser
7.62×51mm NATO
7.65×53mm Argentine
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I've got an 8MM barrel with gas nut somewhere, if you want to set it up 8MM.
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Yes they did...they came out in Cartridges
.30-06 Springfield
7.92×57mm Mauser
7×57mm Mauser
7.62×51mm NATO
7.65×53mm
Argentine
I am fully aware that the FN 49 was released in those various cartridges. The question at hand is did the Egyptians re-barrel their 8 mm FN 49 into 7 x 57 at some point after the war. That is what the local gun store is asserting about this particular Egyptian FN 49
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Originally Posted by
KneverKnew
I am fully aware
You're welcome.
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Which War?
FN-49. Starting date?Apart from Pre-ww2 prototypes and wartime fiddling in Britain, not much happened until 1946), after the Germans had long gone and FN were rising from the seriously battered ashes..
I doubt Egypt would have done a 7mm conversions it is fairly certain they never used the cartridge anywhere else. Until Nasser linked up with the soviets in the mid 1950s, 7.92 x 57 was THE service cartridge in Egypt. Note also the Egyptian 7.92 x 57 version of the Swedish AG-42, from which they developed the very cute 7.62 x 39 "Rashid". carbine.
Venezuela was one of the few customers for 7 x 57. They liked 7mm so much that their initial FAL purchase was in 7mm "Liviano"; basically 7.62 NATO necked down to 7mm. Apparently also known as the "7mm, second optimum"; developed during the last gasps of the EM2. This cartridge later resurfaced as a "legitemized" sporting wildcat, the 7mm-08.
Buy the rifle, not the story. The early and late "trials" SAFN / FN-49 models are VERY collectible, but most are in "official" museums. Does this one come with an "original hooked-quillon" bayonet?
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The short answer is no. Someone has rebarreled an 8x57 with a 7x57 barrel post service is my uneducated guess.
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