AmmoSgt
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White yeah 12.7 is 50 cal but the Soviet DshK 12.7 has a lower muzzel velocity and lacks the boattail bullet, so it starts off slower and slows down faster than the American Browning M2 50 cal HMG same diameter but different balistics .. I think the folks at www.cruffler.com have detailed breakdowns on the FG42 and possibly the SVT in their archieves sections , they have three archive sections Historic guns, .. Guns that are currently available on the C&R market ( I think the SVT is comercially available now ), and weapons Trivia section that has a lot of info on cartidge developement .. If anybody is wanting good spefic knowledge and general info on small arms crufflers is the web site to check out . And strictly in good fun .. MY GOD those are some awfuly High PRICES ... SVT's should be about 500 bucks US and SKS's about 250 .. admitedly not all fancied up .. but in collectible and un polished state
[ November 10, 2001: Message edited by: AmmoSgt ]
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