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DoveRelease
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Location: Arlington wa Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2018 Posts: 1184
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A guy at work was given a rifle from his grandfather and only got one bullet with the gun. He doesn't know anything about it and was wondering what caliber it is so he can go buy some more ammunition for it.
Any one know what caliber this bullet it?
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Sun Dec 16, 2018 12:21 pm |
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DoveRelease
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Another picture.
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Sun Dec 16, 2018 12:24 pm |
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delliottg
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Looks like 7.62x54 Russian
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Sun Dec 16, 2018 1:29 pm |
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beckdw
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delliottg wrote: Looks like 7.62x54 Russian ^^^This^^^ A couple measurements would help. Bullet diameter and case length would probably be enough to solve the case [emoji1787] (pun very much intended).
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Sun Dec 16, 2018 1:40 pm |
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delliottg
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A picture of the rifle would help too. It's quite likely a Mosin Nagant (there are literally millions of them in circulation), but could be something more interesting.
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Sun Dec 16, 2018 1:51 pm |
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MadPick
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Yup, 7.62x54R. Looks like Hungarian, steel core: http://7.62x54r.net/MosinID/MosinAmmoID07.htm
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mcyclonegt
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The answer to your question explains why it was given to him.
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Sun Dec 16, 2018 10:31 pm |
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cruffler
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DoveRelease wrote: A guy at work was given a rifle from his grandfather Enough about the ammo, let's see the rifle!
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Sun Dec 16, 2018 11:36 pm |
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DoveRelease
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Next time I work with him.i will have him.send me a picture of the rifle.
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Mon Dec 17, 2018 6:32 pm |
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old11bravo
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This The 7.62x54R the "r" being for rimmed.
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Mon Dec 17, 2018 7:41 pm |
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jukk0u
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old11bravo wrote: MadPick wrote: the "r" being for rimmed. Stop it, you brute. I'm getting excited.
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Mon Dec 17, 2018 8:44 pm |
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usrifle
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Rimmed for the extractors pleasure.
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