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Around the beginning of the last century, the British sporting gun maker, John Rigby & Co, did the same thing by renaming the 7x57 Mauser cartridge as the .275 Rigby. That was around the end of the Second Boer War, where a bunch of hick farmers with Mauser rifles and carbines made long-distance mincemeat of an association of British Empire troops from UK, Canada and Australia - all thanks to their canny use of long-ranging accurate shooting, their highly mobile and flexible shoot-and-scoot tactics and deep knowledge of the land.
Sounds kinda familiar, don't it?
tac
Sounds kinda familiar, don't it?
tac