Thanks Brithunter, plenty of research for me to follow up, I really appreciate it. My PH came via Sportsmansgun Centre I think, it was years ago. I was told the vast majority ended up in Australia and New Zealand at a time when there was loads of ex military (Egyptian??) ammo dumped on the market. This may be rumour but sounds plausable. I love the 7.92 for hunting, have taken many reds, a few fallow and a couple of muntjac with it. In fact I should have used it as my boar rifle as all the locals in Croatia seem to have ex military 7.92 Mausers. Had I not gone along the 9.3 550 route I'd not have the current dilemma re the red dot. Oh well.