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<blockquote data-quote="Bart B" data-source="post: 499442" data-attributes="member: 5302"><p>Yup. That's right. Here's more detail on the man, time and place.</p><p></p><p>In the late 1940s Nils Kvale at Norma, Sweden, designed a wildcat called 8mm Kvale. It was intended for use in the German surplus 8mm Mauser M98 that flooded the American market after the war and was therefore nicknamed 'Poor Man's Magnum'. Kvale used the case from the .300 H&H Magnum and reduced the rim diameter so it would fit the bolt of a Mauser M98. The experiences he made from this cartridge was put into the .308 and .358 Norma Magnum.</p><p></p><p>Years earlier in 1913, Charles Newton designed the .30 Newton, a rimless bottleneck case of the same case capacity and performance as the .308 Norma Magnum. A much better round for reloading and accuracy as it didn't have that belt which too often caused problems. But the H&H belted cases were thought to be better and stronger by most folks so they prospered while the better Newton design fell by the wayside. </p><p></p><p>In the 1960's, a similar case was designed by a US military marksmanship unit called the .30 FBI intended to be used in US government sniper rifles; nothing more than a .30-.338 (AKA .30 Belted Newton) shortened about 1/8th inch and its belt turned off to make a short, fat rimless bottleneck case. Very accurate and easy to reload, it never caught on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bart B, post: 499442, member: 5302"] Yup. That's right. Here's more detail on the man, time and place. In the late 1940s Nils Kvale at Norma, Sweden, designed a wildcat called 8mm Kvale. It was intended for use in the German surplus 8mm Mauser M98 that flooded the American market after the war and was therefore nicknamed 'Poor Man's Magnum'. Kvale used the case from the .300 H&H Magnum and reduced the rim diameter so it would fit the bolt of a Mauser M98. The experiences he made from this cartridge was put into the .308 and .358 Norma Magnum. Years earlier in 1913, Charles Newton designed the .30 Newton, a rimless bottleneck case of the same case capacity and performance as the .308 Norma Magnum. A much better round for reloading and accuracy as it didn't have that belt which too often caused problems. But the H&H belted cases were thought to be better and stronger by most folks so they prospered while the better Newton design fell by the wayside. In the 1960's, a similar case was designed by a US military marksmanship unit called the .30 FBI intended to be used in US government sniper rifles; nothing more than a .30-.338 (AKA .30 Belted Newton) shortened about 1/8th inch and its belt turned off to make a short, fat rimless bottleneck case. Very accurate and easy to reload, it never caught on. [/QUOTE]
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