Gordon
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Maybe I am the only one here who regulary shoots and likes the 7.65 Luger . I have a Browning High power slide set up for it AND a 1920 Commercial Luger . I have used a 93 grain Truncated flat point cast bullets with gas checks sized at .309 in both guns with 4.5 grains of Winchester 231 (a max but safe for my guns load!!!) which get 1300 fps in the Luger and close to 1400 fps in the Hi power. Very fun load, very economical and would take game to 50 pounds or so out to 50 yards no problemo. The .30 Luger feeds much better IMHO than a 9mm Luger does with various flat pointed bullets owing to the bottle necked casing.
I had a relative, who died many years back, who in the late 1930s took a sea kayak trip down the west coast to South America (my Uncle and aunt) and they carried a Mauser broomhandle in a wooden stock. They shot all kinds of eating game with the stocked Mauser 7.62 and even shot a jaguar sucessfully with it! They used commercial soft point ammo .
I had a relative, who died many years back, who in the late 1930s took a sea kayak trip down the west coast to South America (my Uncle and aunt) and they carried a Mauser broomhandle in a wooden stock. They shot all kinds of eating game with the stocked Mauser 7.62 and even shot a jaguar sucessfully with it! They used commercial soft point ammo .