Rifles to fire 7.5 mm and 8 mm Rubin cartridges. In 1884, Schweizerische Industrie-Gesellschaft converted 130 Vetterli Velocity but the Rubin pattern proved to be far more accurate. Hebler cartridge, which had a paper-mache core, attained a prodigious Tested against an 8.6 mm Hebler pattern in Switzerland in 1882. Rubin cartridges with a caliber of 8.1-9.6 mm were
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Particular rifle was manufactured (given the model and serial number).Įduard Rubin (1846-1920) developed the first successful small-caliberĬopper-jacketed bullets that could withstand velocities higher than were Rifles, and then the tables that are necessary to determine when a The rifle photographs are from Samco Global Arms, and are usedīelow is a short description of the various models of Swiss Schmidt-Rubin The notes about the various models of Schmidt-Rubin rifles are pilferedĪlmost verbatim from Rifles of the World, 2nd edition,īy John Walter (ISBN 0-87349-202-1, copyright 1998, published by Krause Publications, 700 E. Und Schmidt-Rubin, by Reinhart, Sallaz, and am Rhyn (ISBNģ-7276-7102-5, copyright 1991 by Verlag Stocker-Schmid AG,ĭietikon-Zuerich, Schweiz), from which the tables given here are adapted. General, is Die Repetiergewehre der Schweiz, Die Systeme Vetterli
The definitive work on this subject, and Schmidt-Rubin rifles in Parts, if any) were manufactured must be determined from the serial Swiss Schmidt-Rubin rifles do not have the date of manufacture stamped onĪny of the rifle parts, so determining when the rifle (and mismatched Manufacture Dates of Swiss Schmidt-Rubin Rifles