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The .500 Nitro Express / 13x76mmR is a rifle cartridge designed for hunting large and dangerous game animals in Africa and India. [1] This cartridge was primarily designed for use in double rifles though various single shots were produced on the Farquarson action and at least one major company (Heym) produced it in bolt-action configuration.
In 2018 a rifle similar inspired by the MDR, the NGSAR, chambered in a proprietary 6.8mm polymer-cased ammunition cartridge made by PCP was selected as one of the United States Army's Next Generation Squad Weapon Program (NGSW) weapons trial finalists to replace the United States Army's 5.56×45mm NATO caliber weapon systems.
.500/450 Magnum Black Powder Express.450 Marlin.450 Nitro Express.500/450 No 1 Black Powder Express.450 No 2 Nitro Express.454 Casull.500/450 Nitro Express.450 Rigby.450 Dakota.450 Watts Magnum.458×2-inch American.458 Express.458 HAM'R.458 Lott.458 SOCOM.458 U.S. Silent Sniper.458 Winchester Magnum.460 Steyr.460 Weatherby Magnum.461 Gibbs
However, unlike the .357 Magnum being developed from the less powerful .38 Special, the .500 Special was designed after the more powerful .500 Magnum. The purpose of the .500 Special is to be able to shoot less punishing loads, with a muzzle energy closer to that of the .44 Magnum cartridge, in firearms chambered for the .500 S&W Magnum.
This is a list of firearm cartridges that have bullets in the 9 millimeters (0.35 in) to 9.99 millimeters (0.393 in) caliber range.. Case length refers to the round case length.
Examples of FMJ bullets in their usual shapes: pointed ("spitzer") loaded in the 7.62×39mm rifle and round-nosed loaded in the 7.62×25mm pistol cartridges A full metal jacket ( FMJ ) bullet is a small-arms projectile consisting of a soft core (often lead ) encased in an outer shell ("jacket") of harder metal, such as gilding metal ...
Known ballistics of R.A.S. ammunition products are below. Some figures are calculated from inputs of other figures such as the energy measured in foot-pounds (ft-lbf). [11] OAL stands for Overall Length. Data for a Red Army Standard 9×18mm Makarov cartridge, labeled as 94 grain FMJ:
He then sought sources of surplus rifles that he could sell for a profit. [1] With his brother-in-law, Manny Weigensberg, Sucher made contacts in foreign countries for the importation of military surplus rifles and handguns and by the 1970s, Century became the single largest importer of firearms in the United States and Canada. [2] [3]