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A cartridge, [1] [2] also known as a round, is a type of pre-assembled firearm ammunition packaging a projectile (bullet, shot, or slug), a propellant substance (smokeless powder, black powder substitute, or black powder) and an ignition device within a metallic, paper, or plastic case that is precisely made to fit within the barrel chamber of ...
The .30-03 was also called the .30-45, since it used a 45 grain (2.9 g (0.10 oz)) powder charge; the name was changed to .30-03 to indicate the year of adoption. [2] It used a 220 grain (14 g (0.49 oz)) roundnose bullet. It was replaced after only three years of service by the .30-06, firing a spitzer bullet that had better ballistic performance.
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 ...
The cartridges were intended to be aid to anti-Communist insurgents and Allied forces equipped with US weapons. They were loaded in 5-round stripper clips in M1 bandoleers (holding 6 × 5-round clips in cardboard spacers, or 60 rounds each) packed in US Navy 20mm Mark 1 metal ammo chests (33 × 60-round bandoleers; or 1980 rounds each).
The .30-06 Springfield cartridge (pronounced "thirty-aught-six" / ˈ θ ɜːr t i ɔː t s ɪ k s /), 7.62×63mm in metric notation, and called the .30 Gov't '06 by Winchester, [5] was introduced to the United States Army in 1906 and later standardized; it remained in military use until the late 1970s.
Common rifle cartridges, from the largest .50 BMG to the smallest .22 Long Rifle with a $1 United States dollar bill in the background as a reference point.. This is a table of selected pistol/submachine gun and rifle/machine gun cartridges by common name.
But, prosecutors say, as the person in charge of guns and ammunition on what has been called a "gun-heavy" set, Gutierrez-Reed's inattention to safety protocols and alleged introduction of live ...
The Minié ball is a cylindro-conoidal bullet with grease-filled cannelures on its exterior and a cone-shaped hollow in its base.Minié designed the bullet with a small iron plug, and lead skirting that would expand under the pressure of gunpowder deflagration causing the bullet to obturate, and grip the rifling grooves.