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There are many cartridges which use 7.62 mm caliber bullets. Historically, this class of cartridge was commonly known as .30 caliber, and was most commonly used for indicating a class of full power military Main Battle Rifle (MBR) cartridges. The measurement equals 0.30 inches or 3 decimal line
Line (length)

The line is a unit of measurement, one line being equal to 1/10 or in some cases 1/12 of an inch....
s, written .3?
Prime (symbol)

The prime symbol , double prime symbol , triple prime symbol etc. are used to designate several different units, and for various other purposes in mathematics, the sciences and linguistics....
 and read as Three-Line.

7.62 mm refers to the diameter of the lands in the barrel (the raised helical grooves in rifled gun barrels).






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There are many cartridges which use 7.62 mm caliber bullets. Historically, this class of cartridge was commonly known as .30 caliber, and was most commonly used for indicating a class of full power military Main Battle Rifle (MBR) cartridges. The measurement equals 0.30 inches or 3 decimal line
Line (length)

The line is a unit of measurement, one line being equal to 1/10 or in some cases 1/12 of an inch....
s, written .3?
Prime (symbol)

The prime symbol , double prime symbol , triple prime symbol etc. are used to designate several different units, and for various other purposes in mathematics, the sciences and linguistics....
 and read as Three-Line.

7.62 mm refers to the diameter of the lands in the barrel (the raised helical grooves in rifled gun barrels). The actual bullet caliber is normally .308 in (7.82 mm), although Soviet weapons commonly use a .311 in (7.91 mm) bullet, as do older British (.303 British
.303 British

.303 British, or 7.7mmx56R, is a .311 inch calibre rifle and machine gun Cartridge first developed in United Kingdom in the 1880s as a blackpowder round, later adapted to use cordite and then smokeless powder propellant....
) and Japanese cartridges.

Pistol cartridges in 7.62 mm caliber

There are many pistol cartridges in this calibre, but most common are:
  • 7.62x25mm Tokarev also known as 7.62 mm TT
  • 7.65x17mm Browning also known as the .32 ACP
    .32 ACP

    The .32 ACP pistol Cartridge is a Rim , straight-walled cartridge developed by firearms designer John Browning, for use in the FN M1900 semi-automatic pistol....
    .
  • 7.63x25mm Mauser
    7.63x25mm Mauser

    The 7.63x25mm Mauser round was the original ammunition of the Mauser C96 service pistol. The basis of this cartridge was the 7.65x25mm Borchardt cartridge of 1893, the only successful automatic pistol cartridge in production at the time....
    , which has nearly identical dimensions to Tokarev, but different loading specifications and thus is not interchangeable
  • 7.65x22mm Parabellum
    7.65x22mm Parabellum

    The 7.65x21mm Parabellum was a pistol Cartridge introduced in 1898 by Germany arms manufacturer Deutsche Waffen und Munitions Fabriken for their new Luger pistol....


Revolver cartridges in 7.62 mm caliber

Some of the revolver cartridges in this caliber are:
  • 7.62x38mmR
    7.62x38mmR

    7.62x38mmR is a unique ammunition Cartridge designed for use in the Russian Nagant M1895 revolver....
     used only in the Nagant M1895
    Nagant M1895

    The Nagant M1895 Revolver was a seven-shot, gas-seal revolver designed and produced by Belgian industrialist Nagant for Tsarist Russia. The Nagant M1895 was chambered for a proprietary cartridge, 7.62x38R, and featured an unusual "gas-seal" system in which the cylinder moved forward when the gun was cocked to close the gap between the cylinde...
     revolver
    Revolver

    A revolver is a repeating firearm that has a Cylinder containing multiple Chamber and at least one Gun barrel for firing. As the user cocks the hammer , the cylinder revolves to align the next chamber and round with the hammer and barrel, which gives this type of firearm its name....
  • .32 Long Colt, originally revolver cartridge today little used in revolvers, but used in large number of sport pistols in .32 LC WC form (WC stands for Wad Cutter, it means cylindrical bullet)(correction suggested ".32 LC" be changed to ".32 S & W Long" relative to use in sporting pistols.
  • .32 H&R Magnum only revolver cartridge in this caliber which is in wider use today, mostly in smallframe revolvers.


Rifle cartridges in 7.62 mm caliber

Some of most common rifle cartridges in this caliber are:
  • Soviet 7.62x39mm
    7.62x39mm

    The Soviet Union 7.62x39mm rifle Cartridge was designed during World War II and first used in the SKS carbine.The cartridge was likely influenced by a variety of foreign developments, especially the pre-war German GeCo, 7.75x39mm experimental round, and possibly by the late-war German 7.92x33mm Kurz ....
    , also known as the 7.62 mm Soviet, M43, or occasionally .30 Short Combloc, designed for the RPD
    RPD

    The RPD is a 7.62 mm caliber light machine gun developed in the Soviet Union by Vasily Degtyaryov for the intermediate 7.62x39mm cartridge. It was created as a replacement for the Degtyaryov light machine gun machine gun chambered for the 7.62x54mmR Mosin-Nagant rifle round....
     and the SKS
    SKS

    The SKS is a Soviet 7.62x39mm caliber Semi-automatic rifle, designed in 1945 by Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov. SKS is an acronym for Samozaryadniy Karabin sistemi Simonova , 1945 , or SKS 45....
     and used in the AK-47
    AK-47

    The AK-47 is a 7.62x39mm assault rifle developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov in two versions: the fixed stock AK-47 and the AKS-47 variant equipped with an underfolding metal shoulder stock....
     and AKM
    AKM

    The AKM is a 7.62x39mm assault rifle designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov. It is an upgraded version of the AK-47 rifle and was developed in the 1950s....
     assault rifle
    Assault rifle

    An assault rifle is a rifle designed for combat, with selective fire . Assault rifles are the standard small arms in most modern Army, having largely superseded or supplemented battle rifles such as the World War II-era M1 Garand rifle and SVT-40....
    s and RPK
    RPK

    The RPK is a 7.62x39mm light machine gun of Soviet Union design, developed by Mikhail Kalashnikov in the late 1950s, parallel to the AKM assault rifle....
     light machine guns.
  • 7.62x51mm NATO
    7.62x51mm NATO

    The 7.62x51mm NATO is a rifle Cartridge developed in the 1940s and 50s as a standard for small arms among NATO countries. Specifications for the 7.62x51mm NATO cartridge are not identical to the commercial .308 Winchester though they are safely interchangeable....
    , and its civilian variant .308 Winchester
    .308 Winchester

    The .308 Winchester is a rifle round and is the commercial version of the military 7.62x51mm NATO centerfire cartridge. The .308 Winchester was introduced in 1952, two years prior to the NATO adoption of the 7.62x51mm NATO T65, Winchester Repeating Arms Company branded the cartridge and introduced it to the commercial hunting market as the ....
    , sometimes incorrectly described as .308 NATO by persons mixing English measurements used by some civilians with metric measurements used by the NATO organization.
  • 7.62x54mmR another Russian cartridge that was first used in the Mosin-Nagant
    Mosin-Nagant

    The Mosin-Nagant is a bolt-action, internal magazine fed, military rifle that was used by the armed forces of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and various Eastern bloc nations....
     rifle since 1891. The modern versions of the cartridges to this day are in wide use in numerous world armies as sniper rifles (particularly the SVD family) and machine guns (numerous types, many developed from AK family such as the PKM
    PK machine gun

    The PK is a 7.62 mm general purpose machine gun designed in the Soviet Union and currently in production in Russia. Its NATO equivalents are the FN MAG, MG3, and M60 machine guns....
    ).
  • .30-06 Springfield
    .30-06 Springfield

    The .30-06 Springfield cartridge or 7.62 x 63 mm in metric notation, was introduced to the United States Army in 1906 and standardized, used until the 1960s and early 1970s....
     US Army cartridge for both World Wars and Korea, known as the 7.62x63mm in metric measurement.
  • .30 Carbine
    .30 Carbine

    The .30 Carbine is the cartridge used in the M1 carbine introduced in the 1940s. It is an intermediate round designed to be fired from the M1 carbine's 18-inch barrel....
    , used in the M1, M2 and M3 Carbines. Sometimes called the 7.62x33mm.
  • .300 Winchester Magnum
    .300 Winchester Magnum

    .300 Winchester Magnum is a popular magnum rifle Cartridge that was introduced by Winchester Repeating Arms Company in 1963 as a member of the family of Winchester Magnum cartridges....
     used by many hunting/sniper rifles, sometimes called the 7.62x67mm and is the largest of the 7.62mm caliber family.


See also

  • List of rifle cartridges
    List of rifle cartridges

    List of rifle cartridges, by category, and then by name....
  • 7 mm caliber
    7 mm caliber

    This article lists firearm cartridge s which have a bullet in the 7 mm to 8 mm caliber range.*Length refers to the cartridge casing length....