7.62 mm caliber

SSA 7.62mm 143gr AP rifle cartridge, bullet

7.62 mm caliber is a nominal caliber used for a num-ber of different cartridges. Historically, this class of car-tridge was commonly known as .30 caliber, the Imperialunit equivalent, and was most commonly used for indicat-ing a class of full power military main battle rifle (MBR)cartridges. The measurement equals 0.30 inches or 3decimal lines, written .3” and read as Three-Line.[1]

7.62 mm refers to the internal diameter of the barrel atthe lands (the raised helical ridges in rifled gun barrels).The actual bullet caliber is normally 7.82 mm (.308 in),although Soviet weapons commonly use a 7.91 mm (.311in) bullet, as do older British (.303 British) and Japanesecartridges.

1 Pistol cartridges in 7.62 mm cal-iber

There are many pistol cartridges in this caliber, but mostcommon are:

• 7.62×25mm Tokarev, also known as 7.62 mm TT,used in the Tokarev pistol, and many of the WWIISoviet submachine guns.

• 7.63×25mm Mauser, which was the basis for, andhas nearly identical dimensions to the Tokarev, buthas different loading specifications.

• 7.65×21mm Parabellum

• 7.65×25mm Borchardt, from which both theMauser and Parabellum cartridges were developed.

• 7.65×17mm Browning, also known as the .32 ACP.

2 Revolver cartridges in 7.62 mmcaliber

Some of the revolver cartridges in this caliber are:

• 7.62×38mmR used only in the Nagant M1895revolver

• .32 Long Colt Originally chambered in small frameColt revolvers and the Marlin model 1892 rifle, thiscartridge used a heeled bullet with a case the samediameter as the major diameter of the bullet. Itshared dimensions with the .32 rimfire cartridge ofthe same length. Not to be confused with the .32Colt’s New Police cartridge.

• .32 S&W Long Also known as the .32 “Colt’s NewPolice” when chambered in Colt revolvers. Theoriginal loading for this cartridge used a round nose,or flattened round nose (in the case of the .32 Colt’sN.P.) and was chambered widely in revolvers madein the US and Europe through WWII. This car-tridge is used in several modern target pistols (notrevolvers) with flush seated wadcutters. The shortversion of this cartridge (.32 S&W) was chamberedin many break-top revolvers at the end of the 19thand beginning of the 20th centuries in the US andEurope.

• .32 H&R Magnum Is the only revolver cartridge inthis caliber which is in wide use today, mostly insmall-frame revolvers. This is an extended versionof the much earlier .32 S&W long, which is an ex-tended version of the .32 S&W.

• .327 Federal Magnum Is a new cartridge developedjointly by Ruger and Federal. This cartridge is anextended version of the .32 H&R Magnum.

3 Rifle cartridges in 7.62 mm cal-iber

The most common & historical rifle cartridges in this cal-iber are:

• 300 AAC Blackout (7.62x35mm), also known as300 BLK, designed for the M4 carbine platform andSTANAG magazine;

• Soviet 7.62x39mm, also known as the 7.62 mm So-viet, M43, or occasionally .30 Short Combloc, de-signed for the SKS and used in the AK-47 and AKMassault rifles and RPK and RPD light machine guns;

• 7.62×40mm Wilson Tactical;

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• 7.62x45mm vz. 52, made solely for the Czechoslo-vakian vz. 52 rifle, replaced by 7.62x39mm

• 7.62x51mm NATO and its civilian variant .308Winchester, sometimes incorrectly described as.308 NATO by persons mixing English measure-ments, used by some civilians, with metric measure-ments used by NATO;

• 7.62×54mmR, another Russian cartridge that wasfirst used in the Mosin–Nagant rifle since 1891. Themodern versions of the cartridges, to this day, arein wide use in numerous world armies as sniper ri-fles (particularly the SVD family) and machine guns(numerous types, many developed from AK family,such as the PKM);

• .30-06 Springfield, US Military cartridge for bothWorld Wars and Korea, known as the 7.62x63mmin metric measurement;

• .30 Carbine, used in the M1/M2/M3 Carbines,sometimes called the 7.62x33mm;

• .303 British, used in Lee–Metford and Lee–Enfieldrifles, known as 7.7×56mmR in metric measure-ment;

• 7.7×58mm Arisaka, used in the Type 99, Type 2and Type 4 rifles;

• 7.65×53mm Argentine, used in various Mauserbolt-action rifles, primarily in Belgium, Turkey andArgentina;

• .308 Norma Magnum;

• .300 Norma Magnum;

• .300 Winchester Magnum, used by many hunt-ing/sniper rifles, sometimes called the 7.62x67mm;

• .300 Winchester Short Magnum;

• .300 Lapua Magnum, 7.62x70mm;

• .30-378 Weatherby Magnum;

• .30-30 Winchester, a popular deer hunting car-tridge, typically used in lever-action rifles, suchas the Winchester Model 1894 and Marlin Model336, also adapted to European sporting guns as7.62x51mmR;

• .30 R Blaser, used in break-action rifles for huntingmedium to large game;

• 30TC.[2]

4 See also• List of rifle cartridges

• 7 mm caliber

• Category:7.62 mm firearms

• M14 rifle

5 References[1] Holt Bodinson: The old Three-Line: still a great value,

Guns Magazine, Nov, 2006

[2] 30TC

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