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9.3×62mm: Very common big game hunting round in Scandinavia along with the 6.5×55mm, where it is used as a very versatile hunting round on anything from small and medium game with lightweight cast lead bullets to the largest European big game with heavy soft point hunting bullets. The 9.3×62mm is also very popular in the rest of Europe for ...
The two typical designs are the hollow-point bullet and the soft-point bullet. Dummy: A round of ammunition that is completely inert, i.e., contains no primer, propellant, or explosive charge. It is used to check weapon function, and for crew training. [11] Unlike a blank, it contains no charge at all.
The term bullet is from Early French, originating as the diminutive of the word boulle (boullet), which means "small ball". [3] Bullets are available singly (as in muzzle-loading and cap and ball firearms) [4] but are more often packaged with propellant as a cartridge ("round" of ammunition) consisting of the bullet (i.e., the projectile), [5 ...
Expanding bullets are designed to expand on impact, sometimes as much as twice the diameter. [3] This will slow the bullet down and more of its kinetic energy will be transferred to the target, creating a larger wound channel. For this reason, expanding bullets are often used in hunting because their stopping power increases the chance of a ...
While modern firearms are generally referred to by the name of the cartridge the gun is chambered for, they are still categorized together based on bore diameter. [citation needed] For example, a firearm might be described as a "30 caliber rifle", which could accommodate any of a wide range of cartridges using a roughly 0.30 inches (7.6 mm) projectile; or as a "22 rimfire", referring to any ...
0.108 [3] 9mm Obsolete. Smallest round ever manufactured. [3] 4.6×30mm: 2000 Germany H 4.6×30mm 2410 400 0.332 0.183 30mm Bottlenecked high velocity PDW cartridge designed by Heckler & Koch in conjunction with the Heckler & Koch MP7 personal defense weapon. 5 mm Remington Rimfire Magnum: 1970 [3] US 0 [3] R 5×26mm 2100 [3] 327 0.311 0.205 [3 ...
JSP is a semi-jacketed round as the jacket does not extend to the tip Various hollow points: .45 Auto, .38 Special, .44 S&W Special, .44 Remington Magnum.45 ACP Federal HST 230gr hollow point cartridge, with two rounds of CCI Standard Velocity .22 LR for comparison purposes.40 S&W round, complete cartridge and expanded bullet A 9mm hollow point ...
Multiple shots using rounds from the same type and batch are fired to observe how the weapon groups the shots. If a person holds the weapon and shoots it, the grouping measures the combination of the person's skill and the weapon's accuracy. [2] In shotgun shooting, the grouping is also called the pattern or "spread".