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Common on American rifles and pistols chambered for .223 Rem, .22 LR and 9×19mm. 1/2"-28 M12.7 1.270 mm Common on older European rifles chambered for .22 LR. 1/2"-20 M13.5 1 mm LH: Some European 9×19mm pistols 69/128"-25.4 LH: M14 1 mm Very common on European hunting rifles. Also used on some airsoft guns (although often in the left-hand ...
Note: Use of this table for estimating bullet masses for historical large-bore rifles is limited, as this table assumes the use of round ball, rather than conical bullets; for example, a typical 4-bore rifle from circa 1880 used a 2,000-grain (4.57 oz; 129.60 g) bullet, or sometimes slightly heavier, rather than using a 4-ounce (110 g) round ...
The .404 Jeffery is a rifle cartridge designed for hunting large, dangerous game animals, such as the "Big Five" (elephant, rhino, cape buffalo, lion and leopard) of Africa. [5] The cartridge is standardized by the C.I.P. and is also known as .404 Rimless Nitro Express . [ 6 ]
With heavier bullets the .240 Wby. Mag. makes for a good deer hunting cartridge, but it does tend to require a long (>23 inches (580 mm).) barrel in order to achieve peak performance. Performance for 100 grain bullet from utilizing a factory 26" test barrel and a Nosler Partition bullet)
A Blaser R8 Custom Grade II straight-pull bolt action hunting rifle chambered in 8×68mm S. German big game hunters often use 8×68mm S rifles in Africa for hunting plains game, where American hunters would choose one of the .30 or .338 magnum cartridges. The 8×68mm S as a pure civil cartridge can be used in countries which ban civil use of ...
The .470 Nitro Express / 12.7x83mmR is a rifle cartridge developed by Joseph Lang in England for dangerous game hunting in Africa and India. This cartridge is used almost exclusively in double rifles. It is in wide use in the Southern and Central-East African region, favoured by hunting guides, primarily while out for hunting Cape buffalo and ...
These factors, along with Taylor’s dismissal of muzzle energy, allow many obsolete low powered large bore cartridges such as the .577/450 Martini-Henry and the .45-70 Government to have as much as twice the TKOF than the smaller bore general purpose hunting cartridges such as the .303 British and the .30-06 Springfield. For these reasons the ...
In African nations which have enforced a ban on the use of sub 10.2 mm (0.400 in) rifle cartridge for dangerous game, the .416 Rigby can be considered for the hunting of lion or leopard. Prior to the ban on hunting in India, the .416 Rigby was successfully used to hunt dangerous game there which included the Bengal tiger, Indian rhino, and ...