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7.62 x 54 marked M+FA QVC what is it?
- Thread starter Rrickoshae
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sorry, you're right Roger, it is 7.5mm! And I have no doubt you're right about the rest of it too. Many thanks. Is it a military round, being tracer I guess it must be, but don't the Swiss date their ammo? Dave
ah! very good, I never thought of that, I knew I should have paid more attention to my latin at school. why can't they speak English like the rest of us?! Many thanks Jimiles, Dave.
I know, and I didn't learn Latin at school either! I did have a stab at French though.
M+FA = Eidgenssische Munitionsfabrik, Altdorf, Switzerland.
A brief discussion about and a listing of the 3 letter date codes can be found here: http://iaaforum.org/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=11974&p=85352
According to the ECRA Swiss Ammunition Group web site this is a 7.5 x 55mm match cartridge: http://www.ch-munition.ch/matchmun/mfrench/fmframe.htm and see the chapter entitled "Cartouches de match "Altdorfer"".
There they show a picture of match cartridge case heads (with M+FA headstamps with date codes), one with green lacquer, one with red lacquer and one without lacquer. I don't know if color coding the cartridge case head has significance other than identifying these as match cartridges or the date range for such color coding.
Brian
A brief discussion about and a listing of the 3 letter date codes can be found here: http://iaaforum.org/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=11974&p=85352
According to the ECRA Swiss Ammunition Group web site this is a 7.5 x 55mm match cartridge: http://www.ch-munition.ch/matchmun/mfrench/fmframe.htm and see the chapter entitled "Cartouches de match "Altdorfer"".
There they show a picture of match cartridge case heads (with M+FA headstamps with date codes), one with green lacquer, one with red lacquer and one without lacquer. I don't know if color coding the cartridge case head has significance other than identifying these as match cartridges or the date range for such color coding.
Brian
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excellent bdgreen, I think we have it all now. Many thanks to you all for your contributions, Dave