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The .600 Nitro Express is a slightly tapered walled, rimmed, centerfire rifle cartridge designed for use in single-shot and double rifles. [4]The cartridge fires a .620 in (15.7 mm) diameter, 900 gr (58 g) projectile with three powder loadings: the standard being 100 gr (6.5 g) of cordite at a muzzle velocity of 1,850 ft/s (560 m/s); a 110 gr (7.1 g) loading which generates a muzzle velocity ...
This cartridge was intended to fire the largest bullet able to fit in the CZ-550, [2] and was designed specifically for the purpose of killing an elephant. The CZ-550 can fit two cartridges, with slight alterations. The .600 Overkill fires a 900-grain (58 g) bullet at more than 2,400 ft/s (730 m/s),
With a fire rate of 600-1000 rounds per minute, automatic rifles increased the amount of ammo a soldier had to carry. However, the ammo was much heavier (393 gr (25.4 g) for 7.62 x 51 round compared to 160 gr (10.4 g) for .45 ACP), effectively limiting the ammo load.
.300 Precision Rifle Cartridge.300-221.300 AAC Blackout.300 H&H Magnum.300 Blaser Magnum.300 ICL Grizzly.300 Lapua Magnum.300 Norma Magnum.300 Remington Short Action Ultra Magnum.300 Remington Ultra Magnum.300 Rook.300 Ruger Compact Magnum.300 Savage.300 Sherwood.300 Weatherby Magnum.300 Whisper.300 Winchester Magnum.300 Winchester Short Magnum
Common rifle cartridges, from the largest .50 BMG to the smallest .22 Long Rifle with a $1 United States dollar bill in the background as a reference point. This is a table of selected pistol/submachine gun and rifle/machine gun cartridges by common name. Data values are the highest found for the cartridge, and might not occur in the same load ...
Typical cyclic rates of fire are 600–1100 rpm for assault rifles, 400–1400 rpm for submachine guns and machine pistols, and 600–1,500 rpm for machine guns. M134 Miniguns mounted on attack helicopters and other combat vehicles can achieve rates of fire of over 100 rounds per second (6,000 rpm).
7.62×54mmR: The standard Russian rifle round from the 1890s to the mid-1940s. The "R" stands for rimmed. The 7.62×54mmR rifle round is a Russian design dating back to 1891. Originally designed for the Mosin-Nagant rifle, it was used during the late Tsarist era and throughout the Soviet period, in machine guns and rifles such as the SVT-40.
Bolt-action rifles for hunting typically have a small magazine of five rounds or less, rather than the ten rounds or more are found on more modern military rifles firing smaller caliber bullets (the maximum number of rounds a hunting rifle can take is fixed by law in many jurisdictions; two in the magazine and one in the chamber is the limit in ...