6.5×53mmR
6.5×53mmR (6.5x53.5mmR) | ||||||||||||||||
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Steyr Mannlicher, Ferdinand Mannlicher | ||||||||||||||||
Designed | 1892[2] | |||||||||||||||
Specifications | ||||||||||||||||
Case type | Rimmed, bottleneck[5] | |||||||||||||||
Bullet diameter | 6.65 mm (0.262 in) | |||||||||||||||
Neck diameter | 7.55 mm (0.297 in) | |||||||||||||||
Shoulder diameter | 10.75 mm (0.423 in) | |||||||||||||||
Base diameter | 11.48 mm (0.452 in) | |||||||||||||||
Rim diameter | 13.4 mm (0.53 in) | |||||||||||||||
Rim thickness | 1.25 mm (0.049 in) | |||||||||||||||
Case length | 53.5 mm (2.11 in) | |||||||||||||||
Overall length | 77.47 mm (3.050 in) | |||||||||||||||
Rifling twist | 7.874 in (200 mm) | |||||||||||||||
Primer type | Berdan | |||||||||||||||
Ballistic performance | ||||||||||||||||
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Source(s): Rifles and Machine Guns[5] .256 Mannlicher / 6.5x53R Reloading Data[6][7] |
The 6.5×53mmR, originally and more correctly produced as the 6.5×53.5mmR, and in
History and description
It's generally assumed that Mannlicher derived his 6.5 mm cartridge from an experimental 6.5 mm rimmed Luigi Scotti design, a precursor of the 6.5×52mm Carcano, which was provided to him by the Italian government in 1890 in order to build a rifle for it.[8][9]
Mannlicher's Model 1891 rifle was adopted by Romania in 1892 as the
Portugal's Navy adopted this cartridge for the Mannlicher Model 1896, officially known as "Espingarda Portuguesa Mod. 1896".
This is the original rimmed or "flanged" cartridge designed by Steyr-Mannlicher for the Romanian and the Dutch military. In the family of Mannlicher cartridges, it is directly related to and the precursor of the later Greek 6.5×54mm Mannlicher–Schönauer rimless cartridge with which it is ballistically identical.[12]
In the military service rifles, these cartridges are loaded primarily by using the Mannlicher designed
The .256 Mannlicher cartridge also saw use as a sporting round. The elephant hunter W. D. M. Bell was fond of a Mannlicher M1893 rifle in .256 Mannlicher, (from renowned English gunmaker George Gibbs), that he used to hunt for meat in Africa.[13]
Additional case dimensions
Based on direct measurement of Dutch and German unfired ammunition averaged and compared to published original sources:[14][15]
6.5×53R (.256 Dutch-Mannlicher) | Imperial (in.) | Metric (mm) |
Shoulder Angle | 25 deg | |
Length to Shoulder | 1.59 | 40.32 |
Length to Neck | 1.77 | 45.00 |
Surplus WW2 and earlier ammunition is still available on the collector market, but these are primarily corrosive in nature and rifles fired using it will require a thorough cleaning to reduce the development of rust. 6.5x53mmR caliber pre-WW2 Dutch and Romanian rifles are still commonly available on the collector and surplus markets, and sport and recreational shooters can still enjoy using these "early modern rifles". Due to very close dimensional relationships,
Gallery
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French copy of an original cartridge drawing
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French copy of an original cartridge detail drawing
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Comparison of .303 British with .256 Mannlicher
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French copy of an original chamber drawing
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Romanian Mannlicher M1893
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Dutch Mannlicher M1895
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Emptyen-bloc clip
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French copy of an original clip drawing
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Function diagram of the 6.5x53.5mmR anden-bloc clip
See also
- Table of handgun and rifle cartridges
- 6.5×54mm Mannlicher–Schönauer
- 6.5×57mmR Mauser - see: 6.5×57mm Mauser
- 6.5×55mm Swedish
- 7×57mm Mauser
- .30-40 Krag
- .303 British
References
- ^ a b c "A Mannlicher Introduction". Mannlicher Collectors Association. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
- ^ a b c d Reynolds, Dan. "The Rifles of Romania 1878-1948". Carbines for Collectors. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
- ^ a b c Reynolds, Dan. "Reissued Rifles of "The East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere"". Retrieved 29 November 2013.
- ISBN 978-1-4402-1451-6.
- ^ a b Johnson, Melvin M. Jr. (1944). Rifles and Machine Guns. New York: William Morrow & Company. p. 384.
- ^ ".256 Mannlicher / 6.5x53R Reloading Data". Load Data. Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
- ^ "Standard Ballistics of Kynoch Central-Fire Metallic Cartridges" (PDF). Hoferwaffen.
- ^ "History of the Carcano rifle system".
- ^ "6.5 X 52 MANNLICHER CARCANO | Cartridgecollector.net".
- ^ "The Portuguese Mod. 1904 Mauser Vergueiro: With the 98 Mauser just introduced, would you have gone back to the split-bridge receiver of the Gew 88? Portugal did, and the Mod. 1904 served for decades. - Free Online Library".
- ^ Major-General Renato Fernando Marques Pinto, "As Indústrias Militares e as Armas de Fogo Portáteis no Exército Português" Revista Militar 28 May 2010
- ^ "6,5 x 53,5 R Dutch Mannlicher M.1895". Municion (in Spanish).
- ^ Bell, WDM. "Chapter One". Karamojo Safari. Safari Press.
- ^ "6.5x53R". LoadData. Wolfe Publishing Group.
- ^ "rechargement: modification d'étuis courant pour calibres obsolètes" (in French).
- ^ "303 British" (PDF). C.I.P.
- ^ "30–40 Krag" (PDF). C.I.P.
- ^ a b "6,5 x 57 R" (PDF). C.I.P.