Thread: Shell ID?
View Single Post
Old December 3, 2012, 08:47 PM   #4
Mike40-11
Senior Member
 
Join Date: January 8, 2005
Location: Missouri
Posts: 842
I don't know about the headstamp but from the dimensions it looks like a 14.5×114mm Russian case. Started out in PTRS and PTRD anti-tank rifles during WWII. Later used in other heavy machine guns including ZPU anti-aircraft guns and on BTR APCs.

A scaled down version of the PTRS became the SKS.
Mike40-11 is offline  
 
Page generated in 0.03039 seconds with 8 queries