military using the 5.56mm NATO as its standard rifle cartridge and civilian shooters buying rifles chambered for the. Which seems odd in this day and age of the U.S. The 8mm Mauser cartridge, when it was first introduced, was regarded by military authorities as a small bore. The Winchester Model 70 was, however, chambered for the 8mm Mauser in at least one instance and you can see a photo of a Class 1 Special Order:Target Rifle with the barrel marked 7.92mm MAUSER (serial #121,931) on page 269 of The Rifleman’s Rifle. so assuming Madis and Sharpe were correct, I suspect there were few, if any, 8mm Mauser Model 54s manufactured as I’ve never seen or heard of one. There are Model 54s in existence that were made in odd calibers though and there are pictures in The Rifleman’s Rifle of one chambered for the. Sharpe’s The Rifle in America as one of several metric cartridges available for the Winchester Model 54 bolt action rifle but it is conspicuously absent in The Rifleman’s Rifle by Roger C. The 8mm Mauser is listed in both George Madis’s The Winchester Book and Philip B. It was also a very popular cartridge among European hunters and anyone living in or going to parts of Africa that had any sort of German influence. Egypt’s armed forces were still using the FN49 and Hakim semiauto rifles chambered in 8mm Mauser in the 1950’s so to say that the cartridge was a success as a military round is an understatement. Machineguns such as the Maxim, MG34, MG42, and ZB26 were chambered for the 8mm Mauser along with other automatic weapons such as the FG42. Although the 8mm Mauser round is normally thought of as strictly a German military cartridge, it was actually one of the most commonly encountered military cartridges of the 20th century with several countries adopting the round and various versions of Mauser rifles for use by their armed forces. After various changes were made to its design in 1903, the 8mm Mauser continued on as the service cartridge for Germany’s armed forces for both World Wars One and Two. The round itself came about as a result of France adopting the 8 x 50Rmm Lebel cartridge in 1886, which was the first small bore service rifle cartridge loaded with smokeless powder to be used by a major power. The 8mm Mauser cartridge, also known as the 7.92 x 57mm and 7.9mm Mauser, first saw the light of day in 1888 when it was adopted by Germany’s armed forces for use in the Commission Model 88 rifle.
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