.308 CETME ammo

[Wiskey1]

i have #### ton of this .308 CETME marked ammo,1956 Spanish stuff,
i know it was made for some converted rifles back then before they started using NATO specs,
any idea what rifles they were for? or how good they would work for a plinking round in a modern .308 rifle,
just wondering if i use it or send it to the EE,be nice if it would work well in a modern rifle,if you have any experience with this round,i'd really like to hear your input.

 

[Potashminer]

I have never fired the CETME ammo. But I do own a converted 7mm small ring mauser rifle - with the Spanish Guardia crest on the receiver - and have several pictures of a phamphlet issued by Spanish authorities that their "conversion" was to be to 7.62 NATO specs - despite what is written on Internet.

As near as I could determine - the Spanish attempted to design and build a CETME rifle - was eventually to use 7.62 NATO cartridges, but earliest versions would not work correctly - so as a "stop gap" measure, an externally identical round, with less pressure, and lighter bullets, was developed - the 7.62 CETME round - for what was to become 7.62 NATO semi-auto rifles - but some, no doubt, made their way - perhaps deliberately as "training rounds - to about any Spanish service that used rifles chambered to 7.62 NATO. Is confusing, because my barrel /receiver on that Guardia conversion, is marked "7.62" - does not say "CETME" or "NATO" - Internet appears to have added the "CETME only" part to that - is NOT what the Guardia pamphlet says.

It is perhaps of note that at least prior to WWII, "7.62", in many metric countries, designated what we would call a "30-06" - not a 30/30 Win, nor a 300 H&H. Most definitely this Guardia conversion is NOT chambered to fit a 30-06 round.