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A wildcat cartridge, often shortened to wildcat, is a custom-made cartridge for which ammunition and/or firearms are not mass-produced. These cartridges are often created as experimental variants to optimize a certain ballistic performance characteristic (such as the power, size, or efficiency) of an existing commercial cartridge, or may merely ...
Rimfire ammunition is a type of metallic cartridge whose primer is located within a hollow circumferential rim protruding from the base of its casing. The most common rimfire cartridges are chambered for .17 caliber and .22 caliber. The bullet diameter for .17 caliber firearms generally measure .172 inch (4.37 mm), while the bullet diameter for ...
The .22-250 Remington / 5.7x48mm is a very high-velocity, short action, .22 caliber rifle cartridge primarily used for varmint hunting and small game hunting. It is capable of reaching over 4,000 feet per second. Some jurisdictions prohibit the use of cartridges smaller than 6 mm (e.g., .243 Winchester) for deer hunting.
The .22 Bench Rest Remington cartridge, commonly referred to as the .22 BR Remington, is a wildcat cartridge commonly used in varmint hunting and benchrest shooting. It is based on the .308×1.5-inch Barnes cartridge, necked down to .22 caliber, lengthened by .020 inches and with the shoulder angle increased to 30°.
The .22 CHeetah (both C and H are upper-case, [1] referring to Carmichel / Huntington [2]) is a .22 wildcat cartridge developed in the 1970s or 1980s by Jim Carmichel and Fred Huntington. [ 3 ] The .22 CHeetah is essentially a Remington .308 BR (empty .308 Winchester cases [ 4 ] [ 5 ] ), modified to fit the .22 caliber . [ 6 ]
.22 Accelerator, a special loading of the .30-30, .308, and .30-06 cartridges that is manufactured by Remington.22 BR Remington, a wildcat cartridge commonly used in varmint hunting and benchrest shooting.22 CHeetah, a cartridge based on the Remington 308 BR, modified to .22 caliber
The .22 Marcianti Blue Streak was a wildcat modification; but the following cartridges fired more popular .224-inch-diameter (5.7 mm) bullets. [5].22 Hornet became the first commercially successful varmint cartridge in the Winchester Model 54 of 1930. [4]
Number of manufacturers producing complete cartridges - e.g. Norma, RWS, Hornady, Winchester, Federal, Remington, Sellier & Bellot, Prvi Partizan. May be none for obsolete and wildcat cartridges . H/R: Handgun (H) or rifle (R) - dominant usage of the cartridge (although several dual-purpose cartridges exist)