11.5 X 38R MB TARGET

Listed as Lorenz Case number 207, which would date it to around 1882, although the PATR. FABR. KARLSRUHE headstamp would date this specimen to around 1889. It was a short-lived cartridge however and was based on the Mauser Base (MB) system. As such it was only ever...

425 AFRICAN RIMMED

The 425 African is one of two cartridges (the other one being a rimless version) that was developed by Helmut Scheiring in 2014. It would seem that the rimmed version was introduced first and that the 404 Jefferey case was used as the basis for the designs. Cases were...

11.3 X 50R MAUSER MB

This cartridge was listed by Lorenz/DWM only as case number 310. It has a longer neck than most other 50mm case types. Listed as a Mauser repeating rifle, it was still available in the 1904 catalogue. (Dixon Ref. MB98).  

11.2 X 72 SCHULER

The 11.2 X 72 SCHULER was introduced in 1904 and produced until WW2. It utilises the rebated rim design which will fit the bolt of the M88 8mm mauser case. It was adopted by numerous rifle manufacturers and utilised in the German African protectorates as a big game...

11.15 X 36R WERNDL

See also Metric Military Rifle This was the commercial version of the military cartridge adopted by the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1882. Also known as the Austrian Military Carbine Model 1867 cartridge. A popular sporting cartridge produced in Czechoslovakia until the...

11 X 65R COLLATH

This was the largest of the Collath cartridges produced. All Collath cartridges were produced by RWS. The calibre was only sold by Collath as a proprietary cartridge and no other headstamps are known and was designed between 1895 and 1900 and produced until 1928....

11 X 50R M TARGET

Known from packets on which were written ‘Special Sorte” containing cases that are designated M50/11e packed in 1929. According to the stamp on the packet, these were never offered in catalogues, being outside the production programme of the company and manufactured...