Search found 5 matches
- Wed Apr 04, 2012 10:09 am
- Forum: Welcome Wagon
- Topic: Greetings from Italy
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8571
Re: Greetings from Italy
...I do know FN manufactured their own ammunition which is very rare today (especially in the United States). I believe that original FN cartridges are even harder to find in Europe, within about ten years since i owe my mod. 1900 I was unable to see any. However, thank you very much for the pictur...
- Wed Apr 04, 2012 4:19 am
- Forum: Welcome Wagon
- Topic: Greetings from Italy
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8571
Re: Greetings from Italy
sighthound was right. On the website of ECRA ( http://www.ecra.info/start.php ) I can see both denominations, 9x48 and 9x49. But I think that it's a mere matter of names, because I'm uncertain if such a cartridge was ever made in Europe. Actually, sales of the FN 1900 started some years later than ...
- Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:19 am
- Forum: Welcome Wagon
- Topic: Greetings from Italy
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8571
Re: Greetings from Italy
In europe ammo will come in a number of designations 9 x 48, 9 x 49, etc but it is all same as 35 Remington. An oddity: a friend of mine, who has several old catalogues of German cartridges (DWM, RWS and so on) told me that he never saw on them any 9x48 or 9x49. On the other hand, the article of E....
- Mon Apr 02, 2012 3:40 am
- Forum: Welcome Wagon
- Topic: Greetings from Italy
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8571
Re: Greetings from Italy
Thanks to all for your welcome! 81police: Yes, ammunitions are available. No, I haven't seen any before, neither had the gunsmith (an old friend of mine) who got it from someone who had inherited it but clearly disliked firearms. What bothered me was the stamping "Fabrique Nationale" etc.,...
- Sun Apr 01, 2012 11:18 am
- Forum: Welcome Wagon
- Topic: Greetings from Italy
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8571
Greetings from Italy
Hi everybody! A dozen years ago I found a rifle I could not identify, therefore I launched a SOS on the web. My doubts were resolved by Bob Creamer, who told me that it was the Eurpean version of the Model 8 and very kindly sent to me some documents (an article by E.F. Furler, a copy of an instructi...