The 7.65×53mm Argentine cartridge

Cartridge (firearms)

A cartridge, also called a round, packages the bullet, gunpowder and primer into a single metallic case precisely made to fit the firing chamber of a firearm. The primer is a small charge of impact-sensitive chemical that may be located at the center of the case head or at its rim . Electrically...

 was developed for use in the Mauser Model 89 rifle

Rifle

A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves cut into the barrel walls. The raised areas of the rifling are called "lands," which make contact with the projectile , imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the...

 by Paul Mauser of the Mauser

Mauser

Mauser was a German arms manufacturer of a line of bolt-action rifles and pistols from the 1870s to 1995. Mauser designs were built for the German armed forces...

 company. It is also known as 7.65 mm Argentine, 7.65×53mm Belgian Mauser or 7.65 mm Belgian (in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

) and 7.65×53mm Mauser (in Belgium

Belgium

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).

The 7.65×53mm R is a rimmed variant of the 7.65 mm Mauser cartridge. Ballistically it is comparable to the also rimmed .303 British

.303 British

.303 British, or 7.7x56mmR, is a .311 inch calibre rifle and machine gun cartridge first developed in Britain as a blackpowder round put into service in December 1888 for the Lee-Metford rifle, later adapted to use smokeless powders...

 cartridge.

Use & distribution

At one time, the 7.65×53mm Argentine cartridge saw widespread use. It was used by:
Some of the rifles it was used in were the Modelo 1891, Argentine Modelo 1909 Carbine, Modelo 1908, Modelo 1910 and the Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 FN Model 1949

FN Model 1949

The Fabrique Nationale Model 1949 is a semi-automatic rifle designed by Dieudonné Saive and manufactured by Fabrique Nationale...

. In Argentinian military service, the cartridge was used from 1891 to the early 1960s in Mauser bolt-action military rifles, as well as a semi-automatic rifle, the FN FN-49.

This cartridge was loaded commercially by many manufacturers in the United States until about 1936. Hornady

Hornady

Hornady Manufacturing Company is an American manufacturer of ammunition and handloading components, based in Grand Island, Nebraska.The company was founded by Joyce Hornady in 1949 and is currently run by his son Steve Hornady who took over after his father's death in a plane crash in 1981.Hornady...

 is the only major U.S. ammunition manufacturer to still produce this cartridge. Sporting ammunition in this caliber is still loaded in Europe. Norma

Norma (company)

Norma Precision is a Swedish manufacturer of ammunition located in Åmotfors, in the province of Värmland, just 20 km of the Norwegian border. It is commonly referred to as simply Norma.- History :...

, Prvi Partizan

Prvi Partizan

Prvi Partizan is an ammunition manufacturer, located in Užice, Serbia. Founded in 1928 as FOMU - Fabrika Oružje Municija Užice. The company produces ammunition for civilian and military consumers in a variety of calibers in various loadings. Their products are available worldwide...

 and Sako

SAKO

SAKO, Limited is a Finnish firearm manufacturer located in Riihimäki....

currently produce 7.65×53mm ammunition. Reloadable cartridge cases can easily be produced by resizing and trimming .30-06 brass.