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To: King Prout

NATO would be 7.62 x 51mm. Dragunovs shoot the 308 Russian, which goes back a loooooong way.

12 posted on 07/17/2005 9:55:20 PM PDT by papertyger (Power concedes nothing without a demand. – Frederick Douglass)

To: papertyger

wierd... for some reason I've been thinking the NATO round was 7.62x54mm

I *despise* being in error, so thanks very much for correcting me.

15 posted on 07/17/2005 10:01:02 PM PDT by King Prout (I'd say I missed ya, but that'd be untrue... I NEVER MISS)

To: papertyger

Dragunovs shoot the 308 Russian, which goes back a loooooong way

It's of an age with the 8mm Mauser, .303 Brit, and slightly older than our own 30-06. In the same general class as all of those too.

17 posted on 07/17/2005 10:34:59 PM PDT by El Gato

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