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The advantage of the reduced charge ammunition to the sniper aided in his concealment as the reduced charge rounds produced less muzzle flash than standard rounds and thus did not give away the sniper's position.Ħ.5 gallery ammunition incorporated a paper or wood bullet and dummy rounds as issued to Japanese forces were either all brass rounds or were more commonly red varnished wood with a metal base and rim.
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This reduced charge 6.5 mm ammunition can be identified by a letter "G" in a circle stamped on the outside of the ammunition packaging which stands for the first letter of "genso" - the Japanese word for "reduced." This special ammunition was also issued to soldiers carrying the Type 96 Light Machine Gun introduced in 1936 and to snipers issued the Type 97 Sniper Rifle, introduced in 1937. It was thus decided to reduce the powder charge of Type 11 6.5 mm ammunition to overcome the problem. Subsequent use indicated that the higher pressures generated by the standard rifle ammunition caused parts wear and breakage in machine guns. The Type 11 was initial meant to fire standard Type 38 Rifle ball ammunition by means of ordinary five-shot Type 38 stripper clips. The Type 38 spitzer version of the 6.5x50mm cartridge remained unchanged until after the adoption of the Type 11 Light Machine Gun in 1922. The Type 38 spitzer-bullet round fired a convert|9.0|g|gr|sing=on bullet with a powder charge of convert|2.5|g|gr for a muzzle velocity of around convert|770|m/s|ft/s. This was later changed with the adoption of the Type 38 when Japan, in line with the other great powers around the same time, changed to the pointed or spitzer bullet in the first decade of the twentieth century. Type 44 Cavalry Carbines, first adopted in 1911, were also chambered in 6.5x50mm.Įarly 6.5x50mm cartridges had a cupro-nickel round nosed bullet weighing convert|10.4|g|gr fired with approximately convert|2.0|g|gr of smokeless powder. In 1905, the round also came to be offered in the Type 38 Arisaka Infantry Rifle and Carbine, both of which obsoleted the Type 30 in Imperial Army service. In 1902 the Imperial Japanese Navy chambered its Type 35 Rifle for the cartridge as well.
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The new rifle and cartridge replaced the 8x52mm Murata round used in the Type 22 Murata Rifle. Wars= World War I, Second Sino-Japanese War, World War IIīalsrc= The 6.5x50mm Semi-Rimmed Japanese cartridge was adopted by the Imperial Japanese Army in 1897 along with the Type 30 Arisaka Infantry Rifle and Carbine. Used_by= Japan, Russia, United Kingdom, China, North Korea, South Korea, Thailand, Finland, Indonesia