7.62 Mm Caliber - Rifle Cartridges in 7.62 Mm Caliber

Rifle Cartridges in 7.62 Mm Caliber

The most common & historical rifle cartridges in this caliber are:

• Soviet 7.62x39mm, also known as the 7.62 mm Soviet, M43, or occasionally .30 Short Combloc, designed for the SKS and used in the AK-47 and AKM assault rifles and RPK and RPD light machine guns;
• 7.62x51mm NATO and its civilian variant .308 Winchester, sometimes incorrectly described as .308 NATO by persons mixing English measurements, used by some civilians, with metric measurements used by the NATO organization;
• 7.62×54mmR, another Russian cartridge that was first used in the Mosin-Nagant rifle since 1891. The modern versions of the cartridges, to this day, are in wide use in numerous world armies as sniper rifles (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 both World Wars and Korea, known as the 7.62x63mm in metric measurement;
• .30 Carbine, used in the M1/M2/M3 Carbines, sometimes called the 7.62x33mm;
• .303 British, used in Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield rifles, known as 7.7×56mmR in metric measurement;
• 7.7×58mm Arisaka, used in the Type 99, Type 2 and Type 4 rifles;
• 7.65×53mm Argentine, used in various Mauser bolt-action rifles, primarily in Belgium, Turkey and Argentina;
• .308 Norma Magnum;
• .300 Winchester Magnum, used by many hunting/sniper rifles, sometimes called the 7.62x67mm;
• .300 Lapua Magnum, 7.62x70mm;
• .30-378 Weatherby Magnum;
• .30-30 Winchester, a popular deer hunting cartridge, typically used in lever-action rifles, such as the Winchester Model 1894 and Marlin Model 336, also adapted to European sporting guns as 7.62x51mmR;
• .30 R Blaser, used in break-action rifles for hunting medium to large game;
• 30TC.