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  2. .243 Winchester - Wikipedia

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    The .243 Winchester (6×52mm) is a popular sporting rifle cartridge. Developed as a versatile short action cartridge to hunt both medium game and small game alike, it "took whitetail hunting by storm" [2] when introduced in 1955, and remains one of the most popular whitetail deer cartridges.

  3. .243 Winchester Super Short Magnum - Wikipedia

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    The .243 Winchester Super Short Magnum or .243 WSSM is a rifle cartridge introduced in 2003. It uses a .300 WSM (Winchester Short Magnum) case shortened and necked down to accept a .243in/6mm diameter bullet, and is a high velocity round based on ballistics design philosophies that are intended to produce a high level of efficiency. [2]

  4. Table of handgun and rifle cartridges - Wikipedia

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    Rimmed version of the .308 Winchester, for use in lever-action rifles. .308 Marlin Express: 2006 US 1 [4] R [5] 7.62×48mm 2800 [4] 2514 [4] 1.796 47.7 [10] 0.308 [10] 0.395 [5] 48mm Based upon a slightly shortened .308 Winchester cases with FTX bullets and special powder to approach .308 ballistics from a Marlin lever-action rifle. .308 Norma ...

  5. 6mm ARC - Wikipedia

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    The 6mm Advanced Rifle Cartridge (6×38mm), or 6mm ARC for short, is a 6 mm (.243) caliber intermediate rifle cartridge introduced by Hornady in 2020, as a low-recoil, high-accuracy long-range cartridge, designed for use in the M16 platform at request of a specialized group within the U.S. DoD for its multipurpose combat rifle program.

  6. Fully powered cartridge - Wikipedia

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    From left to right: 9×19mm Parabellum (pistol cartridge) 7.92×33mm Kurz (intermediate-power rifle cartridge) 7.92×57mm Mauser (full-power rifle cartridge). A fully powered cartridge, also called full-power cartridge or full-size cartridge, is an umbrella term describing any rifle cartridge that emphasizes ballistic performance and single-shot accuracy, with little or no thought to its ...

  7. Muzzle velocity - Wikipedia

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    Firearm muzzle velocities range from approximately 120 m/s (390 ft/s) to 370 m/s (1,200 ft/s) in black powder muskets, [3] to more than 1,200 m/s (3,900 ft/s) [4] in modern rifles with high-velocity cartridges such as the .220 Swift and .204 Ruger, all the way to 1,700 m/s (5,600 ft/s) [5] for tank guns firing kinetic energy penetrator ammunition.

  8. Intermediate cartridge - Wikipedia

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    .345 Winchester Self-Loading of the Winchester-Burton M1917 automatic rifle.351 Winchester Self-Loading of the Winchester Model 1907 semi-automatic rifle; 7.62×39mm cartridge of the AK-47 assault rifle and SKS semi-automatic carbine; 7.62×45mm cartridge of the vz. 52 semi-automatic rifle; 7.92×33mm Kurz cartridge of the StG 44 assault rifle

  9. Muzzle energy - Wikipedia

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    For example, in Denmark rifle ammunition used for hunting the largest types of game there such as red deer must have a kinetic energy E 100 (i.e.: at 100 m (110 yd) range) of at least 2,700 J (2,000 ft⋅lbf) and a bullet mass of at least 9 g (140 gr) or alternatively an E 100 of at least 2,000 J (1,500 ft⋅lbf) and a bullet mass of at least ...