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  2. .700 Nitro Express - Wikipedia

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    The .700 Nitro Express (17.8×89mmR) is a big-game rifle cartridge.The cartridge is typically charged with around 250 grains of powder, in addition to a two-grain igniter charge (to reduce the tendency of the cartridge to hang fire from such large powder charges). [3]

  3. Nitro Express - Wikipedia

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    The term "Express" was coined by James Purdey in 1856, derived from the express train, to publicise the bullet velocity of his double rifles and became common parlance for many rifle cartridges. The addition of the word "Nitro" stemmed from the propellant used in these cartridges, cordite , which is composed of nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine .

  4. Category:Holland & Holland cartridges - Wikipedia

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    .500/465 Nitro Express.600/577 Rewa.700 Nitro Express; P. Paradox gun This page was last edited on 30 January 2018, at 00:10 (UTC). Text ...

  5. Express (weaponry) - Wikipedia

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    With a few exceptions, such the .242 Rimless Nitro Express from the 1920s, and a brief period around 1980 when Remington renamed their .280 Remington cartridge the 7 mm Express Remington, the label express is today used for short range, big game rifles pushing large, fast bullets. [5]

  6. Elephant gun - Wikipedia

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    The safari heyday of the early 20th century "nitro era" records much literature on such calibers as the .577 Nitro Express, .375 H&H Magnum, .416 Rigby, .404 Jeffery, .505 Gibbs, .450 Nitro Express, and .470 Nitro Express. These rifles came out in single shot, bolt action, and double rifle configurations and continued to be used until ivory ...

  7. .600 Nitro Express - Wikipedia

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    The .600 Nitro Express is a slightly tapered walled, rimmed, centerfire rifle cartridge designed for use in single-shot and double rifles. [4]The cartridge fires a .620 in (15.7 mm) diameter, 900 gr (58 g) projectile with three powder loadings: the standard being 100 gr (6.5 g) of cordite at a muzzle velocity of 1,850 ft/s (560 m/s); a 110 gr (7.1 g) loading which generates a muzzle velocity ...

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  9. Category:Rimmed cartridges - Wikipedia

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    .375/303 Westley Richards Accelerated Express.307 Winchester.348 Winchester.357 Magnum.360 No. 5 Rook.380 Long.375 Winchester.450/400 Black Powder Express.405 Winchester.442 Webley.450 Nitro Express.500/450 No. 1 Black Powder Express.454 Casull.455 Webley.460 S&W Magnum.461 Gibbs.470 Nitro Express.476 Enfield.500 Black Powder Express