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The FR8 Spanish Rifle |
 | | On one hand, they weren't enough CETMEs to equip all the soldiers (remember, Spain was then under a more-or-less official international freezing, and production was awfully slow), and, on the other, the military magazines were being filled with perfectly usable Mauser rifles that, moreover, fired a cartridge that was facing a near extinction. |
 | | As more and more military units were adopting the CETME, the Cetmeton was being banished to the auxiliary units, or as an "expendable" rifle for training uses, and, finally, it was exported as a shooting and hunting rifle. |
 | | The FR-8 has a CETME "C" barrel, designed to withstand the presures of the 7'62x51 NATO cartridge (although it's true that the CETME "A" was designed to fire the 7'62x51 CETME, with lesser power), and the locking system of the 1943 rifle (Mauser 1898) designed to withstand the even greater pressures of the 7'92 cartridge. |
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