It's a very old round from around 1900 and was factory loaded. It's a good round, IMO, and it's appropriate to the 95 & 96 Mausers. H4895 and IMR 30-31 are both good powders for it. The traditional bullet is the 286gr RN. As the poster says, it's a thumper.
Thnx Guys. I honestly don’t remember if I’ve heard of that round and if I did I probably didn’t know what it was.
See...I’m not that old.
Jerry
Probably not old enough, no.
Some of us here read the early reviews in Guns and Ammo when it first came out in 1899. The gun writers panned it at first, but by 1902 it had gained a good reputation for squirrels and red stag. That's when I got my first of many.
Honest
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