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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 ...
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.
The case manufacturer's code letter or numeral was placed in the 6 o' clock position and the two digit percentage of copper in the case's brass (usually 67 for 7.9mm Mauser) was placed at the 9 o'clock position. The last two digits of year of production was placed at the 3 o'clock position.
The 9mm Winchester Magnum, which is also known as the 9×29mm, is a centerfire handgun cartridge developed by Winchester in the late 1970s. The cartridge was developed to duplicate the performance of the .357 S&W Magnum in an auto-pistol cartridge. [2] The first handgun which chambered the cartridge was the Wildey pistol.
Burnside-Patent Burnside carbine in loading position. The carbine was designed and patented by Ambrose Burnside, who resigned his commission in the U.S. Army to devote himself full-time to working on the weapon. The carbine used a special brass cartridge which was also invented by Burnside. This cartridge contained a bullet and powder, but no ...
The widespread availability of standard-size Mauser 98 rifles in central Europe and the fact that the .375 H&H Magnum cartridge and its necked-down version the .300 H&H Magnum with approximately 72.4 mm case length and 91.4 mm (3.60 in) overall length were too long to fit in standard-sized Mauser 98 bolt-action rifles made the shorter 9.3×64mm ...
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The fact that it is not a bottlenecked case means that the brass is worked less as it is swaged back to size in the reloading process than cases like the .357 SIG where the shoulder is moved slightly with each fire and reload cycle. The less the brass is worked in this way the slower it hardens and the longer it will be before it tends to split.