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Handloading. Components of a modern bottleneck rifle cartridge. Top-to-bottom: Copper-jacketed bullet, smokeless powder granules, rimless brass case, Boxer primer. Handloading, or reloading, is the practice of making firearm cartridges by manually assembling the individual components ( metallic / polymer case, primer, propellant and projectile ...
Speedloader. A speedloader is a device used to reduce the time and effort needed to reload a firearm. Speedloaders come in a variety of forms for reloading revolvers, or the magazines used with other types of firearms such as rifles and shotguns . Generally, speedloaders are used for loading multiple chambers of a revolver simultaneously.
Hodgdon Powder Company. The Hodgdon Powder Company began in 1952 as B.E. Hodgdon, Inc., and has become a major distributor of smokeless powder for the ammunition industry, as well as for individuals who load their own ammunition by hand. The company's corporate office and manufacturing facilities are located in Kansas, United States.
Gas-operated reloading. Gas-operated firearm (long-stroke piston, e.g. AK-47 ). 1) gas port, 2) piston head, 3) rod, 4) bolt, 5) bolt carrier, 6) spring. Gas-operation is a system of operation used to provide energy to operate locked breech, autoloading firearms. In gas-operation, a portion of high-pressure gas from the cartridge being fired is ...
Steve Hornady. Number of employees. 200+ (April 2009) Website. www .hornady .com. Footnotes / references. Largest independent producer of bullets in the world. Hornady Manufacturing Company is an American manufacturer of ammunition cartridges, components and handloading equipments, based in Grand Island, Nebraska .
Speed reload. A speed reload (also known as a "combat reload") is the action of reloading a weapon in a very short amount of time by ejecting the currently loaded magazine with one hand without retaining it, and drawing as well as loading a fresh magazine with the other hand. A speed load is quite similar to a regular reload of a weapon, but ...
Tactical reload. A tactical reload is the action of reloading a weapon that has only fired a few rounds out of its magazine, and retaining the original magazine. [1] [2] An example is an infantryman reloading before entering a hostile building, concerned about ammunition. [3] Tactical doctrine states that one should always have a full magazine ...
Test barrel length: 520 mm (20.472 in) The 7.62×45mm (designated as the 7,62 × 45 by the C.I.P.) [ 2] is a rimless bottlenecked intermediate rifle cartridge developed in Czechoslovakia. It is fired by the Czech Vz. 52 rifle, Vz. 52 light machine gun, and ZB-53 machine gun. The cartridge was later dropped from use when the Czech converted to ...