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7 × 57 mm
Region
South Africa
Chile
United States
Finland
Norway
Sweden
Austria
Belgium
Germany
Category
Ammunition, Missiles and precision weapons
The brass cartridge case is bottlenecked and rimless, and can be found with Boxer or Berdan priming. The 7 × 57 mm Mauser rifle cartridge was developed by Mauser in 1892 and, together with an improved Mauser rifle, was adopted by the Spanish Army in 1893. It was subsequently widely adopted by South American, Chinese and South African forces. The standard military bullet is the usual jacketed lead core, non-streamlined, pointed type although round-nose bullets can still be encountered and there is a variety of
soft-nosed and expanding commercial bullets in use. It won fame in the Spanish-American War and was responsible for the USA's rapid abandonment of the M1892 Krag-Jorgensen rifle and its adoption of the M1903 Springfield in 0.30-06 (7.62 × 63 mm), a near copy of the M98 Mauser. Though no longer in first-line service with any country it is still in use by police and paramilitary forces, particularly in South America, for which military ammunition is produced. It is also in wide use as a sporting round. Applications include suitably chambered rifles and machine guns.