And Another Cartridge Quiz!

There are a few scarce ones here, good luck! I put a 7.62x39 M43 in the middle to provide a little scale.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...09/quiz1-1.jpg

the first ones a lipstick.

Ouch! It's actually a pretty small chisel-pointed bullet.

Is the second one from the right a Martini Henry .455?

No, much smaller, it's an 8mm round.

looks like a 8x63 or 8x59 difficult to tell apart - also looks like a AR-15 whisper variation and some 9x39 Soviet variations, too much weird stuff to be able to identify

OK, I'll give you one; the longest is an 8x63 Swedish MG round. You're not too far off on 8x59 for the round nose to the right of it.

third from left, 8mm Ribeyrolle necked down .351 Win to use standard French 8mm Lebel bullet. Post WW1 for new French asault rifle

Yes! That's a tough one.
That's 2 of the 6 mystery rounds. I'll post the answers tomorrow. There are LOTS of weird and interesting cartridges out there.

The cartridge or clip quiz can be fun and interesting but very advanced or little known (weird) examples can cause a loss of interest. If I had not made-up an example of the 8mm Ribeyrolle years ago, I would never have been able to identify it

I hope your "made-up example" doesn't get into the system as an authentic one. Unfortunately, cartridge collecting also has its share of fakers.

Ist on left is a 4.6x36 for a Heckler+Koch project. The spoon point got me thinking, and I remembered something from way back. So, w/ a bit of help from Wikipedia, I think that's it. Apparently it's actually a CETME designed round that H&K picked up. "Spoon" point for quicker destabilization upon impact.


I must say it's much harder to ID these w/o a "hands on" evaluation! "Educated" fingers?

2nd on left- I'll make a SWAG and say it's the current Chinese (5.8mm or some such) infantry round.

I'll have to give you a 1.5 on those answers, just a bit off on the CETME.
Here are the answers, from left:
4x27 CETME, a Spanish experimental
5.8x42 Chinese
8mm Ribeyrolle, a French assault rifle experimental
7.62x39
8x63 Swedish MG
8mm Murata
.345 Machine Rifle, a pre-WWII US experimental.
Thanks for playing!