Gennot describes the bullets used in the massacre as "seven sixty two" (7.62mm) and later says that "apart from the Russians, only the Swedes use large-caliber weapons, for shooting elks [sic]" Russian agents and Swedish hunters were hardly alone in favoring "large-caliber" rounds; although the Soviet military did use 7.62mm (or .30-caliber) rifles and machine guns at the time, so did Finland and the United States, while Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Czechoslovakia, and others used even larger 7.92mm or 8mm bullets. Furthermore, various 7.62mm rounds were popular with hunters around the world, and Swedish elk hunters were known to favor a much larger 9.3mm bullet.