

The rimmed variant of the 7.92×57mm Mauser, the 8×57mm IRS, was developed later for break-barrel rifles and combination guns. The 7.92×57mm Mauser cannot be used in countries which ban civil use of former or current military rifle cartridges, though since 2013 is no longer restricted in France. The 7.92×57mm Mauser can offer very good penetrating ability due to a fast twist rate that enables it to fire long, heavy bullets with a high sectional density. The 7.92×57mm Mauser cartridge's performance makes it suitable for the hunting all medium-sized game (food), game such as the deer family, chamois, mouflon, bighorn sheep, wild boar and bear. In 2004 Remington Arms offered a limited-edition Remington 700, Model 700 Classic bolt action hunting rifle chambered for the 7.92×57mm Mauser. Īnd Steyr Mannlicher produce factory new 7.92×57mm Mauser hunting rifles and European ammunition manufacturers like Blaser, RUAG, RUAG Ammotec/RWS, Prvi Partizan, SAKO, Sako and Sellier & Bellot produce factory new ammunition. In 1999, the Mauser civilian gun segment was separated from the military segment and was purchased by the German investors Michae. Mauser Jagdwaffen GmbH is a German manufacturer of hunting rifles in the Lüke & Ortmeier group. The 7.92×57mm Mauser is a common chambering offering in rifles marketed for European and North American sportsmen, alongside broadly similar cartridges such as the 5.6×57mm, In post World War 2 Germany the production of the various preceding chamberings is allowed again, but these chamberings have become rare in post 1939 produced arms. In 1939 the ''Normalisierungsverordnung'' (Normalization regulation) effectively prohibited the production of non S-bore/7.92×57mm Mauser chambered arms in Nazi Germany. During the mid 1930s Germany stopped obeying the restrictions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles and gradually the civilian use of 7.92×57mm Mauser chambered rifles by German hunters and sport shooters was resumed. The Treaty of Versailles however effectively nixed the civilian use of 7.92×57mm Mauser chambered rifles by German hunters and sport shooters. According to the treaty the ''Reichswehr'' could, on a limited scale, continue using the 7.92×57mm Mauser as their service cartridge. After the Imperial German Army had been dissolved in January 1919 and was to be transformed into a peace army, the R. It consisted of the (army), and the (navy). The () was the unified armed forces of the Weimar Republic from 1921 to 1935. The 1903 pattern ''S Patrone'' (S ball cartridge) was loaded with a lighter, pointed ''Spitzgeschoß'' (spire point bullet) of diameter and more powerful double-base (based on nitrocellulose and

Besides the chambering, the bore (designated as "S-bore") was also dimensionally redesigned. German government driven efforts to further improve on the performance of the military M/88 ammunition and the service arms in which the M/88 was used after several development steps eventually resulted in the official adoption on 3 April 1903 by the ''Gewehr-Prüfungskommission'' of the dimensionally redesigned 8mm Mauser chambering. The M/88 barrel bore specification was changed by 1894–1895 to lands diameter and grooves diameter to improve accuracy and reduce barrel wear in M/88 chambered arms. The M/88 bore originally had lands diameter and grooves diameter. Īnd a relatively heavy,, round-nosed ball bullet with a diameter of. The term is unique to the United States and is generally not used in other English-speaking countries, wh. Smokeless powder is a type of propellant used in firearms and artillery that produces lower amounts of smoke when fired, unlike black powder.
