It seems that combat reports from Ethiopia indicated the 6,5mm left something to be desired, so the increased bore size was thought to be the easiest way of improving results. (On the other hand, there was more than one report of the 6,5 doing damage all out of proportion to it's size, so things weren't much different then than now.)
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