Clay_Allison
Staff Sergeant
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- Dec 24, 2008
on the other hand the 7.92x57 Mauser was used for the remainder of the decade with '98 Mauser knockoffs and even the FN-49 semi-auto rifles chambered for it. The 7.92x57 was adopted by more countries after the war (Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Israel, among others) than any WWII rifle cartridge with the exception of the 7.62x54R (Soviet).Sure. No one wanted to adopt a calibre of a defeated hated super power.