Just what rules did the Germans rewrite in 1904 ? The Frenchicon already had their spitzer boat tail bullet in 1898 . The reason for the Germanicon S round was to give the same battle field zero as the 6.5mm's , without giving up the wound making capability of the 8mm . The German's developed the S round in 1896 as stated in their ordnance testing reports . I have seen a 1898 dated example and have a 1900 example . They just did not make the official change to the S round and the 400 meter zero until 1905 .
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