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What was the first commercial rifle cartridge designed for smokeless powder?
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What was the first commercial rifle cartridge designed for smokeless powder?
Oh, hell. I thought I knew the answer to my own question, but I was wrong.
.30 WCF aka .30-30?
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That's what I thought until I googled it.
I think shotguns went smokeless before any rifle, correct?
But since the question says rifle, I think it was an 8mm round, but I cannot remember which one.
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Hmmm, I was pretty sure it was .30-30 WCF too?
If you are thinking 8mm Lebel, that was a military round to my thinking, not a commercial one.
Last edited by spqrzilla; 08-25-2014 at 08:25.
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I was thinking 8mm Lebel and .30-40 Krag were both considered "military" cartridges...
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The 8mm Lebel was 1886... 9 years before the .30 WCF was released.
Sorry about that one.
Anybody want to ask the next one?
Question: What was the full name of the person who, during the early 60's , developed ballistic equations for calculating appropriate loads using DuPont's line of IMR powders - which were produced for the handloading public in a sliderule format?
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