Manual

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Cocking handle:
left side of receiver.
Chonge lever: left side of trigger frame.
Sights: adjustable, bocksight graduated from
200-600 metres, scaled by 100 m.
Rifling of barrel : 4 grooves, direction-right,
pitch-l in 305 mm (1 in 12”!
Cyclic rote of fire: 650-700 rpm.
Operational rate of fire, semi-automatic: up
to 60 rpm.
Cartridge
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Colibre: 7.62 mm NATO (Fig. 2).
Weight of cartridge: (for ordinary ball round
“SS 77”) approx. 24 g (0.86 oz).
Length of cartridge: 7 I mm (2.8”).
Weight of ordinary bullet: “FN SS 77”:
9.30 g (0.33 oz).
Powder charge:
approx. 3 g (0.1 oz).
lnitiol Velocity (VO) in the “F. A. L.“:
840 m/set (2,754 ft/sec).
Muzzle Energy (EO) in the “F. A. L.“:
335 kgm (2,422 ft.lbs).
Remaining Kinetic Energy at 600 metres
(656 yds): 100 kgm (723 ft.lbs).
N. 6. For further technical information and
ballistical chorocteristics, also firing tables, refer
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