Pedersen

[MGMike]

The .276 Pedersen rifle is a very soft-shooting, pleasant rifle to fire. The shooter does not really notice the toggle flipping up.

Waxing the cases won't affect pressure at all, but may increase the back-thrust and, in automatic weapons, raise bolt velocity. Apparently the Germans did not think that mattered enough to worry about; beginning in June 1944 their factories introduced the waxing process to all steel case production of 7.9mm. The pressure in wartime 7.9mm service ammo was really not so high to begin with, and the guns all had ample reserves of strength.

I have experimentally waxed 7.92x57mm, 7.92x33mm Kurz and even some badly tarnished 7.62mm NATO M80 rounds, with Simoniz car wax and Johnson's or Butcher's Floor Wax, without any adverse effect that I can detect. It tends to cure "short recoil" problems from underpowered ammo (such as 7.65mm Parabellum in some pistols).

The fired cases look normal; the only difference is that they are ejected somewhat further --but nowhere near as far as from an AK or FNC with unwaxed ammo.

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