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One of the most successful cartridge designs of the famous German gun and ammunition designer Wilhelm Brenneke was the 9.3×64mm Brenneke. He designed this cartridge ex novo (the 9.3×64mm Brenneke has no other cartridge as a parent case) and introduced it commercially in 1927. This big-game cartridge is the most powerful cartridge he designed.
9mm Major is a wildcat cartridge of the 9mm Luger specifically for competition pistols designed to handle very high pressure. It is used in practical shooting competitions like International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) and United States Practical Shooting Association (USPSA) to achieve a "Major" power factor, which earns more points for hits in specific zones on paper targets ...
This is a list of firearm cartridges that have bullets in the 9 millimeters (0.35 in) to 9.99 millimeters (0.393 in) caliber range.. Case length refers to the round case length.
Examples of FMJ bullets in their usual shapes: pointed ("spitzer") loaded in the 7.62×39mm rifle and round-nosed loaded in the 7.62×25mm pistol cartridges A full metal jacket ( FMJ ) bullet is a small-arms projectile consisting of a soft core (often lead ) encased in an outer shell ("jacket") of harder metal, such as gilding metal ...
Known ballistics of R.A.S. ammunition products are below. Some figures are calculated from inputs of other figures such as the energy measured in foot-pounds (ft-lbf). [11] OAL stands for Overall Length. Data for a Red Army Standard 9×18mm Makarov cartridge, labeled as 94 grain FMJ:
The 9×19mm Parabellum (also known as 9mm Luger, 9mm NATO or simply 9mm) is a rimless, centerfire, tapered firearms cartridge. Originally designed by Austrian firearm designer Georg Luger in 1901, [ 6 ] it is widely considered the most popular handgun and submachine gun cartridge due to its low cost, adequate stopping power and extensive ...
The 9mm Largo and the 9×23mm Steyr have almost identical dimensions, but they can be distinguished by the gilded jacketed bullet on the former, and the Austrian headstamp on the latter. [ 6 ] While external dimensions are almost identical, the 9×23mm Largo is a very different cartridge from the modern, high-performance 9×23mm Winchester .
Firing +P or +P+ ammunition in the R9 was not recommended by the manufacturer. The Rohrbaugh R9 Series Pistol was the NRA "Shooting Illustrated" magazines "Handgun of the Year" for 2005. The Rohrbaugh R9 had no manual safety, locking slide, or magazine disconnect; the weapon could be fired with no magazine inserted.