Browning Lightning BLR

donv

March 06, 2003 04:44

Can the 7.62x51mm NATO cartridge be used in the Browning Lightning
BLR Lever Action 308?

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  22WRF

  March 06, 2003 04:54

  To answer your quastion No
  Look at the diagram
  
  .308 bullet is almost identical to the NATO 7.62x51mm and in most cases the rounds are interchangeable. Winchester released the .308 Win a number of years before the U.S. Army adopted the 7.62x51mm NATO and the specifications do have a slightly different dimension for the headspace. This might play a role when shooting .308 commercial bullets from a rifle chambered for 7.62x51mm.
  

  
  
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  rockton

  March 06, 2003 22:17

  According to Cartridges Of The World by Frank Barnes 8th edition the .308 is nothing more than the NATO 7.62x51 military round.
  
  It was introduced by Winchester in 1952 and adopted by NATO in 1954.
  
  Rockton

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  Warpig883

  March 08, 2003 05:35

  I contacted some of the manufacturers on this a year ago.
  
  Browning, Savage, Armalite, and Springfield have all stated that their guns are designed to safely shoot both the nato 7.62x51 and the commercial .308. If you contact Winchester, Remington ect, you will probably get the same answer.
  
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  donv

  March 09, 2003 10:12

  I asked a Browning rep., by phone,
  if it was safe to use the 7.62x51mm in the Browning 308 BLR. He seemed to hedge saying,that any SAAMI
  certified cartridges were ok to
  use in Browning fireaems.
  Then is the NATO cartridge within
  SAAMI specs?

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