enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Gas-operated reloading - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.

  3. Speedloader - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedloader

    An 1858 New Model Army black-powder cap-and-ball revolver replica. The cylinder has been removed from the frame. The modern revolver circular speedloader holds a full cylinder complement of cartridges in a secure fashion, spaced in a circular configuration so as to allow the cartridges to drop simultaneously into the cylinder easily (although non-circular types such as half moon clips are very ...

  4. Handloading - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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), rather than purchasing mass-assembled, factory-loaded ...

  5. Hodgdon Powder Company - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodgdon_Powder_Company

    [10] DuPont added IMR 4895 to their retail distribution line in 1962, and added IMR 4831 in 1973 when supplies of surplus H4831 were exhausted. [11] Hodgdon then acquired newly manufactured H4831 from Nobel Enterprises in Scotland.

  6. Ball propellant - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_propellant

    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]

  7. .400 Cor-Bon - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.400_Cor-bon

    Redding Reloading, according to their catalog, offers custom made 3-die sets for the .400 Corbon. [23] Lubricating of the bottleneck case can be avoided when starting with .400 Corbon cases by using a carbide .45 ACP sizing die before using the .400 Corbon sizing die. Using a five-stage progressive reloading press makes this less of a chore.

  8. .50-110 Winchester - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.50-110_Winchester

    The .50-110 WCF / 13x61mmR (also known as the .50-100-450 WCF , with different loadings) in modern 1886 Winchesters with modern steel barrels is the most powerful lever-action cartridge, with up to 6,000 foot-pounds (8,100 J) of energy.

  9. Smokeless powder - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokeless_powder

    [9]: 140 In England in 1889, a similar powder was patented by Hiram Maxim, and in the United States in 1890 by Hudson Maxim. [10] Ballistite was patented in the United States in 1891. The Germans adopted ballistite for naval use in 1898, calling it WPC/98.