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An IMR smokeless powder for reloading The Hagley Museum in Wilmington, Delaware. IMR Legendary Powders is a line of smokeless powders which are popularly used in sporting and military/police firearm cartridges. The initials 'IMR' stand for Improved Military Rifle powder. IMR powders makes a line of various types of smokeless powder suitable for ...
By 1936 improved DuPont process control produced batches conforming to published reloading data rather than requiring different charge specifications for each batch; [11] and those propellants have remained in production. Non-conforming batches were used to load commercial and military cartridges following traditional testing procedures.
The .700 Nitro Express (17.8×89mmR), also known as .700 H&H, is a big-game rifle cartridge.The cartridge is typically charged with around 250 grains of powder, in addition to a two-grain igniter charge (to reduce the tendency of the cartridge to hang fire from such large powder charges). [3]
The first French brass cartridge for military use. Black powder. [3] Replaced by 8mm Lebel. [3] 11×60mm Mauser: 1871 Germany R 11×60mmR 1430 [3] 2013 [8] 2.815 77 [3] 0.446 [3] 60mm The first black powder cartridge adopted in large numbers by the unified German Army, it was used in the 1871 and 1871/84 rifles. 11×60mm Murata: 1880 Japan R 11 ...
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 ...
The .22 Hornet or 5.6×36mmR Hornet [2] is a varminting, small-game hunting, survival and competition centerfire rifle cartridge commercially introduced in 1930. It is considerably more powerful than the rimfire.22 WMR and the .17 HMR, achieving higher velocity with a bullet twice the weight of the .17 HMR bullet.
Ivory powder measure used to provide a uniform amount of gunpowder for a muzzle-loading firearm before cartridges were available. A powder measure is a device for dispensing consistent amounts of smokeless powder or black powder as charges for handloading cartridges used as small arms ammunition. a typical volumetric powder measure
Example of a ballistic table for a given 7.62×51mm NATO load. Bullet drop and wind drift are shown both in mrad and MOA.. A ballistic table or ballistic chart, also known as the data of previous engagements (DOPE) chart, is a reference data chart used in long-range shooting to predict the trajectory of a projectile and compensate for physical effects of gravity and wind drift, in order to ...