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  2. Rim (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    Since a straight-walled rimless cartridge is designed to headspace off of the case mouth, this prevents the ammunition loader or manufacturer from using a heavy crimp, which is a ring pinched or "crimped" into the cartridge case, designed to lock the bullet securely in place until fired.

  3. Headspace (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    Headspace positioning of rimless, rimmed, belted and straight cartridges Several different rimmed, .22 rimfire cartridges, which have a uniform forward diameter, and which have headspace on the rim, allowing any length of cartridge shorter than the maximum size to be used in the same firearm Firearms chambered for tapered rimmed cartridges like this .303 British cannot safely fire shorter ...

  4. Handloading - Wikipedia

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    Components of a modern bottleneck rifle cartridge. Top-to-bottom: Copper-jacketed bullet, smokeless powder granules, rimless brass case, Boxer primer.. Handloading, or reloading, is the practice of making firearm cartridges by manually assembling the individual components (metallic/polymer case, primer, propellant and projectile), rather than purchasing mass-assembled, factory-loaded ...

  5. Cartridge (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    Some cartridges, like the .470 Capstick, have what is known as a "ghost shoulder" which has a very slightly protruding shoulder, and can be viewed as a something between a bottleneck and straight-walled case. A ghost shoulder, rather than a continuous taper on the case wall, helps the cartridge to line up concentrically with the bore axis ...

  6. 7.62×51mm NATO - Wikipedia

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    Although originating from an identical preceding series of experimental cartridges, the commercial 1952 .308 Winchester and the military 1954 7.62×51mm NATO chamberings have evolved separately but remain similar enough that they can be loaded into rifles chambered for the other round, but the .308 Winchester cartridges are typically loaded to ...

  7. .30-06 Springfield wildcat cartridges - Wikipedia

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    – Shortened to an overall case length of 1.70 in (43 mm), with the bottleneck expanded to a straight wall to accept a .41 caliber bullet. Designed in Michigan, one of several states that have changed deer hunting regulations in recent years to allow the use of large-caliber straight-wall centerfire cartridges (for Michigan, such requirements ...

  8. Table of handgun and rifle cartridges - Wikipedia

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    Introduced by Remington at the 2023 SHOT Show. Straight-walled cartridge based on a blown-out .30-30 Winchester case and designed for deer hunting in U.S. states that require hunters with modern rifles to use that cartridge shape. [51].376 Steyr: 1999 [3] Austria & US 2 [54] R 9.5×60mm 2754 4211 0.375 60mm

  9. Heeled bullet - Wikipedia

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    The heeled bullet design has many advantages, mainly when coupled with the straight or slightly tapered walled cases it appeared in. For pistols, converting a cap and ball revolver to use cartridges was as simple as cutting off part of the rear of the cylinder, replacing it with a frame-mounted ring, and changing the hammer. It also made new ...