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The 7x57: Effective hunting and military round developed from the German military standard 8x57mm (having actions / brass / tool etc ready to go)
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Was it? I thought the 7x57 came out around 1893, before the 7.92x57. I thought Mausers had some round ball ammo they pushed out of the chamber with black powder back around 1888 and that they switched to the smokeless powder with the 7x57, then developed a 7.92x57 smokeless round for the action around 1904/1905.
IIRC, the 7.92x57mm was a cartridge revision that developed after the 7x57mm. When I was growing up, I remember being told that the 7x57mm was the 'granddaddy' to the 8mm Mauser, the 30-06 and the revised .303Enfield, as it performed so well in Cuba and in the Boer War that it inspired other countries to up the ante in the cartridge game.
Sorry. I was just hoping for clarity, as I thought the 7x57 egg came before the 8mm Mauser [7.92x57] chicken.
