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  2. List of the United States Army munitions by supply catalog ...

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    The military used .22-caliber training rifles to teach basic marksmanship before transitioning to full-bore service rifles. T1AAA = 10,000 cartridges of .22 Long Rifle Ball, in 50-round cartons. They were packed 10 cartons per cardboard box (500 rounds) and there were 20 boxes per wooden crate.

  3. Lake City Army Ammunition Plant - Wikipedia

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    A worker at Lake City Army Ammunition Plant packs two cans of newly manufactured 5.56×45mm NATO ammunition into a wirebound crate. (c. 1998) Headstamp of a .50 caliber cartridge casing made at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in 1943 and recovered from the Sahuarita Bombing and Gunnery Range in 2012.

  4. 5.56×45mm NATO - Wikipedia

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    The FN-created cartridge was named "5.56×45mm NATO" with a military designation of SS109 in NATO and M855 in the U.S. [13] These new SS109 ball cartridges required a 228 mm (1-in-9 inch) twist rate while adequately stabilizing the longer L110 tracer projectile required an even faster, 178 mm (1-in-7 inch), twist rate.

  5. List of military headstamps - Wikipedia

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    The civilian headstamp has the "SBR" at 12 o'clock and the caliber at 6 o'clock. On the military headstamp the "SB" is at 12 o'clock and the "R" is at 6 o'clock. It manufactured 7,92mm Mauser and .303 British military ammunition because most of the regional powers used either captured German or Austrian war surplus or British military aid.

  6. Improved military rifle powder - Wikipedia

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    used to load the 173-grain (11.2 g) .30-06 Springfield M1 bullet; sold as military surplus by DCM [15] 1204 1925 1935 thin & short replaced by 4227 [15] 3031 1934 standard replaced 17 1/2; [18] for mid-range loads and medium sporting and military cartridges like the .257 Roberts, .30-30 and .348 Winchester [11] 4064 1935 standard

  7. Handloading - Wikipedia

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    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), rather than purchasing mass-assembled, factory-loaded ...

  8. Ball propellant - Wikipedia

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    BL-C (Lot 2) for full-charge loads in the .308 Winchester and .223 Remington [14] was newly manufactured by Olin in 1961 with 10 percent nitroglycerin, 10 percent diphenylamine stabilizer, and 5.75 percent dibutyl phthalate deterrent, but without the flash suppressant used in the surplus military propellant. [11]

  9. Wildcat cartridge - Wikipedia

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    A .30 Carbine case necked down to .223 caliber (5.56 mm), this cartridge was developed to convert military surplus M1 Carbines into short range varmint guns. [8] 6mm PPC. Based on the .220 Russian, which is in turn based on the 7.62×39mm intermediate-power cartridge. The 6mm PPC was developed in 1975 specifically for benchrest shooting. While ...

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