RWS 8x68s Identity Crisis

[BC Tal]

Help me identify these three different RWS 8x68s cartridges. I have multiples of each, but they all came in the same 14.5 gram KS boxes. I believe the cartridge on the left is actually a 14.5 gram / 224gr ks.

 

[Phil Giordano]

My bet is - from left to right:
KS 224, very old KS 184 or 224, H Mantel (184?) from the '70s or so.
Everyone of these are, as far as I know, not loaded anymore by RWS, currently.
The one in the middle is the most mysterious, as I've never seen a KS "hollow", but I know of no other one with that shape, so to me is a KS...
The first from left is the younger of the bunch.

 

[mooze]

left is Kegelspitz/KS, far right HMK/H-Mantel about 20+ years old.
in the middle could be a Brenneke Torpedo Hohlspitz
There also is the DK which looks a bit like the KS but with a cannelure.
generational sequence of H-Mantel see pic

 

[HWL]

My bet is - from left to right:
KS 224, very old KS 184 or 224, H Mantel (184?) from the '70s or so.
Everyone of these are, as far as I know, not loaded anymore by RWS, currently.
The one in the middle is the most mysterious, as I've never seen a KS "hollow", but I know of no other one with that shape, so to me is a KS...
The first from left is the younger of the bunch.

You are right, the one in the center is the old 224 gr KS.

HWL

 

[Grumpy gumpy]

I’ve got a box of the H-mantel here, I thought it was from the early 2000’s
Gumpy

 

[BC Tal]

Thanks guys, appreciate the identification.