Guess the cartridge ?

[RCS]

The mystery cartridge is on the right side of the Russian 7,62mm Nagant pistol cartridge.
This cartridge has a bullet diameter of 8,2mm and a case length of 40 mm.

This cartridge was loaded by Winchester, Remington and UMC

(Remington loading: 106 gr bullet at 1150 fps

[emmagee1917]

8mm Pieper ?
Chris

[RCS]

Chris, how did you find this cartridge information ? it is not listed in "Cartridges of the World"
but has been posted on other sites. Any Pieper revolvers or carbines turn-up in your area ?

The Pieper revolvers and carbines used the same gas seal as the Russian 1895 Nagant revolver only a different cartridge. The Piepers were quite popular in Mexico as the US
produced these 8mm Pieper cartridges, Mexico use of the Pieper began in the 1890's and
last up through the 1930's yet few are found in the USA

[emmagee1917]

It's quite popular down here in Yuma , but we are on the Mexician border . We are always having someone from down south of the border bring us an original Henry or '66 or '73 Winchester or a Colt SAA and have us convert it to this.



Not really . I googled " 106 grain 1150 fps " and it came up like the third site down . Never heard of it before . Blind squirrel finds accorn sort of thing. Thought I'd have a little fun with the cowboy collectors .
Chris

[RCS]

I use two Colts which are Italian repros that I converted to S&W 38 caliber during the last few years, I had the cylinders but had to make the ejector rod housings, loading gates and recoil plates. Also changed the mainsprings to the thin Colt 1873 type, fun to shoot smokeless or black. The S&W Russian is from Navy Arms easy to reload with all the 44 bullets available but I do not use black powder in the Russian

[emmagee1917]

Nice . I like the looks of the converted cartrige guns , but I've never had one. Got the WW2 USGI bug way back in '84 and all my spare cash goes into that.
Chris

[RCS]

Chris, Your right about the WW2 bug, a lot of really neat stuff

Photo: early 1941 Winchesters