6.5×55mm Swedish

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The 6.5×55mm was a high-performance smokeless-powder rifle cartridge. 6.5×55mm Swedish, also known simply as 6.5×55mm, 6.5x55 SE, 6.5x55 Swede, or in its native military as 6,5 mm patron m/94 (6,5 mm ptr m/94), meaning "6.5 mm cartridge model 94", referring to 1894, is a first-generation smokeless powder rimless bottlenecked rifle cartridge. Most users of the cartridge are in Scandinavia, where it is known as the 6,5×55 or just "the 6,5". The book Cartridge Cases refers to the cartridge as 6.5x55 Norway & Sweden. Introduced in the 1890s, the 6.5x55mm is still one of the most common cartridges in modern rifles built for the Scandinavian market. The cartridge was developed in a joint Norwegian and Swedish effort starting in 1891 for use in the new service rifles then under consideration by the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway. In 1893, the cartridge was standardized and adopted under the name 6.5×55mm to facilitate logistical cooperation between Norway and Sweden. The two nations had...

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