peterjc
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I thought I knew pretty much about guns and ammo but I never heard of this one. A buddy gave me a single cartridge last night he said somebody else gave him. He didn't know what it was and with our old eyes we could not read the head stamp. That is the smallest head stamp I think I ever saw. Anyway when I got home and used a magnifier on it...it is a 5.7 x 28 FN cartridge made in Belgium. I researched it and below is a link you can read all about it. That (jerk) I have stronger words for him but can't use them here...Nidal Hasan used this cartridge at the Fort Hood murders last year. He had a FN Five-Seven pistol. If you look that up it normally comes with a 20 rd. mag. and can take an aftermarket 30 rd. and with one in the chamber the pistol will hold 31 cartridges.
Anyway....not counting all that bad stuff, I got to thinking that would be a cool fox caliber. It almost reaches 22 Hornet ballistics so it would even be more fur friendly than that.
Here are couple pics I just took side by side with my reloads of .223 and 22-250.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5.7x28mm
Anyway....not counting all that bad stuff, I got to thinking that would be a cool fox caliber. It almost reaches 22 Hornet ballistics so it would even be more fur friendly than that.
Here are couple pics I just took side by side with my reloads of .223 and 22-250.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5.7x28mm
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