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The 8mm/92 [8 x 27 mm R], officially designated as 8 mm Lebel by the C.I.P., [2] is a rimmed cartridge used in the 8mm M1892 revolver and inexpensive handguns manufactured in Belgium and Spain. These are usually copies of the Modèle d'Ordonnance revolver itself or of then reputable foreign firearms ( Colt Police Positive , Nagant M1895 , Rast ...
The term "8mm Lebel" for the French Mle 1892 revolver ammunition, is only applied outside France for commercial reasons and has nothing to do with the Lebel rifle. However, the term "8mm Lebel", used to identify a rifle cartridge, is widely recognized to distinguish the French rifle cartridge from other 8 mm rifle cartridges , such as the 8× ...
Originally chambered for an 8mm black-powder cartridge closely resembling the .32-20 WCF round, later models issued during World War I and thereafter fired the same 8mm cartridge loaded with smokeless powder. The Mle 1892 revolver is a double-action solid-frame design, with chambers being accessed by swinging out the cylinder to the right.
8mm Lebel revolver ammunition [ edit ] If a more proper terminology for the ammunition used in the Model 1892 Lebel revolvers is available then please include it, but since ammunition for the revolver is referred to as 8mm Lebel (even Fiocchi sells ammo labeled 8mm Lebel for the revolver) please don't remove the warning note.
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The Patrone 88 (cartridge 88) or M/88 is a rimless bottlenecked rifle cartridge.It was a first-generation smokeless propellant cartridge designed by the German Gewehr-Prüfungskommission (G.P.K.) (Rifle Testing Commission) as the then new smokeless propellant introduced as Poudre B in the 1886 pattern 8×50mmR Lebel started a military rifle ammunition revolution.
8 mm machine guns (2 C, 14 P) 8×22mm Nambu firearms (2 C, 1 P) 8×50mmR Lebel firearms (1 C, 1 P) 8×50mmR Mannlicher firearms (1 C, 2 P) 8×59mm RB Breda firearms ...
Following the French tradition of state arsenals competing with each other and with private industry, MAC designed and manufactured several well-known French small arms, including the FM 24/29 light machine gun and its derivatives the MAC mle 1931 and MAC 1934 machine guns, as well as the MAC 1950 (later MAS 1950) semi-automatic pistol.