This increases pressures, but not so much as to create a critical problem (though it is likely to cause headspacing issues in the weapons over time). The bore diameter is left unchanged – 7.92 mm projectiles are simply squeezed down to 7.62 mm upon firing. Naming origins aside, what makes these rechambered AK type rifles interesting is that they are able to chamber and fire both the standard 7.62 x 39 mm cartridge as well as the 7.92 x 33. However, the name appears to result from either the designation of the Nazi German Sturmgewehr 44 rifle (‘StG 44’), one of the weapons which originally chambered the 7.92 x 33 cartridge, or from British 7.62 x 51 mm cartridge cases bearing the “L44A2” headstamp which were commonly reformed into 7.92 x 33 dimensions. According to Muhammad Yasin of the Punjab Forensic Science Agency, the Pathan tribes claim the cartridge as an indigenous development. How this cartridge came to be popular in the tribal areas of Pakistan is something of a mystery. This is the “44 Bore” rifle, a colloquial name given to AK type rifles rechambered for the German 7.92 x 33 mm Kurz (sometimes referred to as 8 x 33 mm) cartridge in Pakistan. The rifle above is a curious example of weapons coming full-circle and being reinvented.
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