Luftwaffe bullet? - Luftwaffe and Allied Air Forces Discussion Forum

Tony Williams · #8 12th October 2006, 17:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by SMF144

von Lutz,

That rifling you see comes from the rifling found inside of the barrel of the gun. It certainly doesn't look like a .5 to me.

Stephen

It certainly does look like a .5 Browning to me, and I have lots of them on my shelf

Other cartridges loaded with bullets of similar size and shape were: 12.7mm Russian, 13mm T-Gewehr, 13.2mm Hotchkiss. However, the .50 Browning is the closest match (and by far the most likely in W Europe on the basis of the number used).

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