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  2. .450 No 2 Nitro Express - Wikipedia

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    The .450 No 2 Nitro Express has a massive 3.5-inch (89 mm) long cartridge case which has a large case capacity and compared to other similar Nitro Express cartridges has a thicker rim and heavier walls. The size of the cartridge case gives it some of the lowest chamber pressures amongst the Nitro Express cartridges which, when combined with its ...

  3. .500 Black Powder Express - Wikipedia

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    The 3-inch and 3 1 ⁄ 4-inch .500 BPE cartridges have survived to the current day as the .500 3-inch Nitro for Black and the .500 3 1 ⁄ 4-inch Nitro for Black, the same cartridges loaded with mild loadings of modern smokeless powder, carefully balanced through trial to replicate the ballistics of the Black powder version. [2] The two ...

  4. Wadding - Wikipedia

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    A series of individual 1/1,000,000-second exposures showing shotgun firing shots and wadding separation. In shotgun shells, the wadding is actually a semi-flexible cup-shaped sabot designed to hold numerous much smaller-diameter sub-projectiles (i.e. shots), and is launched out together as one payload-carrying projectile.

  5. Cartridge (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    A cartridge, [1] [2] also known as a round, is a type of pre-assembled firearm ammunition packaging a projectile (bullet, shot, or slug), a propellant substance (smokeless powder, black powder substitute, or black powder) and an ignition device within a metallic, paper, or plastic case that is precisely made to fit within the barrel chamber of ...

  6. .577/500 No. 2 Black Powder Express - Wikipedia

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    A 3 + 1 ⁄ 8-inch variant would later be loaded with cordite to become the .577/500 Nitro Express. [ 1 ] For some time the .577/500 No. 2 BPE was loaded with cordite to become the .577/500 No. 2 Nitro for Black , the same cartridge loaded with mild loadings of cordite, carefully balanced through trial to replicate the ballistics of the black ...

  7. Caseless ammunition - Wikipedia

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    Caseless ammunition (CL), [1] or caseless cartridge, is a configuration of weapon-cartridge that eliminates the cartridge case that typically holds the primer, propellant and projectile together as a unit. Instead, the propellant and primer are fitted to the projectile in another way so that a cartridge case is not needed, for example inside or ...

  8. .505 Gibbs - Wikipedia

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    This cartridge was originally loaded with 90-grain (5.8 g) of cordite and 525-grain (34.0 g) bullet at 2,300 ft/s (700 m/s) for 6,166 ft⋅lbf (8,360 J) of kinetic energy. [2] While the .505 Gibbs has a greater case capacity than most modern cartridges, it is loaded to lower pressures. [ 2 ]

  9. .577/500 Nitro Express - Wikipedia

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    The .577/500 NE was developed by loading a 3 + 1 ⁄ 8-inch variant of the .577/500 Black Powder Express with smokeless cordite. The latter was developed by necking down the .577 Black Powder Express to .508". [2] Whilst very similar to the .577/500 No 2 Black Powder Express the two are not interchangeable. [1]