And it offered other advantages like five rounds down and one up the spout. Large-bore British double rifles of the area - designed and built for England’s wealthy upper crust - were not an affordable option, but a German-made Mauser was. They needed dependable rifles throwing bullets that stopped trouble without draining funds.
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Leopards and hyenas nipped their goats, sheep, and chickens. In 1905 they were busy settling several colonies in Africa including Tanganyika and German Southwest Africa, today’s Tanzania and Namibia.Īs you might imagine, pioneering farms had more than drought and locusts to contend with. While European boar and stag required cartridges and bullets of this size, German pioneer farmers were probably the bigger market. Ivory hunter Karamojo Bell was employing one in the guise of a 275 Rigby Mauser. Regardless its dimensional inconsistencies, Bock’s creation was clearly influenced by the M98 Mauser bolt-action rifle of Germany, then a rising star in Africa. But it does have a strong Mauser connection. Indeed, some call it the 9.3圆2 Mauser even though it was not created by Paul Mauser. Which chicken hatched which egg? Given the country of origin, it’s most likely Bock worked from or at least took inspiration from the 7x57 Mauser. The 30-03 was available two years before Otto announced his medium bore. One interesting conjecture about Bock’s potential blueprint for the 9.3圆2 is the U.S.
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Apparently there’s considerable fudge room in cartridge manufacturing tolerances. I guess that’s ok because a 30-06 cartridge on my desk that is supposed to span. 467”, live rounds of that ammunition in my possession measure. While my Hornady Handbook of Cartridge Reloading shows the 9.3圆2 having a head diameter of. And that means it’s mirroring our 30-06 for rim, head, body diameter -even the 17-degree, 30-minute shoulder angle. A German named Otto Bock created the 9.3圆2 rimless cartridge out of whole cloth, although its dimensions look suspiciously like the 7x57mm Mauser of 1892.