Fedorov Avtomat
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The Fedorov Avtomat or FA is a select-fire infantry rifle and one of the world's first operational automatic rifles, designed by Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov in 1915 and produced in the Russian Empi
Avtomat M1916 Fedorov no BG
A Fedorov Avtomat rifle at the Tula State Museum of Weapons
A Fedorov Avtomat in the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution
A Fedorov Avtomat captured by the Finnish during the Winter War
6.5×50mmSR Arisaka
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The 6.5×50mmSR Arisaka is a semi-rimmed rifle cartridge with a 6.705 mm diameter bullet. It was the standard Japanese military cartridge from 1897 until the late 1930s for service rifles and machine g
Fedorov Avtomat
…Arisaka stripper clips. Production of the new cartridge was out of question so it was decided to convert 6.5 mm Fedorov rifles to use the Japanese 6.5×50mmSR Arisaka ammunition which was in abundance, having been purchased from Japan and the United Kingdom along with Arisaka rifles. (About 763,000 Arisaka-type rifles…
6.5×50mmSR Arisaka (center) with .303 British (left) and .30-06 (right)
Japanese military 6.5×50mmSR Arisaka round (Type 38).
Original Japanese military Type 38 cartridge specification sheet.