A difference that makes no difference is no difference.
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Originally Posted by
Aragorn243
It's a 1952 La Coruna.
The CETME was a Spanish assault rifle design, that later emerged as the German G3 rifle. The Spanish, being militarily somewhat isolated in the Franco era and not a member of NATO, designed a special cartridge that was almost, but not quite the same as, the NATO cartridge. CETME rifles versions A and B are only supposed to be used with the CETME cartridge. Version C was finally able to handle the NATO spec cartridge.
Your rifle is not a CETME assault rifle, whether A, B, or C, so this is irrelevant. It was built in 1952, before the 7.62x51 NATO was introduced. So it has presumably been rebarelled. And rebarelled rifles are supposed to have been fitted with barrels suitable for normal 7.62x51 NATO.
Please check it out- I may have got my wires crossed - but you will have to puzzle out some Spanish, as anything you will find in English language forums is likely to be highly derivative.
And it appears that the whole worry of .308 WIN versus 7.62x51 NATO comes down to different methods of specifying/measuring the maximum chamber pressure. If you can find a milspec for 7.62x51 NATO, compare it with a CIP or SAAMI data sheet in this regard. A huge red herring that causes unnecessary worry.
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Patrick