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Although not originally designed for handguns, several rifle and shotgun cartridges have also been chambered in a number of large handguns, primarily in revolvers like the Phelps Heritage revolver, Century Arms revolver, Thompson/Centre Contender break-open pistol, Magnum Research BFR, and the Pfeifer Zeliska revolvers. These include:
Colombo-Ricci revolver: 10.35mm Ordinanza Italiana 6 Kingdom of Italy: c.1910-? [2] Colt 1851 Navy Revolver: Colt's Manufacturing Company.36 caliber ball.38 rimfire.38 Short Colt: 6 United States: 1851-1873 Colt 1861 Navy Revolver: Colt's Manufacturing Company: Paper-wrapped.36 caliber.38 Short Colt: 6 United States: 1861-1873 Colt Anaconda
A magnum cartridge is a firearm cartridge with a larger case size than, or derived from, a similar cartridge of the same projectile caliber and case shoulder shape. [clarification needed] The term derives from the .357 Magnum, the original revolver cartridge with this designation.
Revolvers most commonly have 6 chambers, hence the common names of "six-gun" or "six-shooter". [30] However, some revolvers have more or less than 6, depending on the size of the gun and caliber of the bullet. Each chamber has to be reloaded manually, which makes reloading a revolver a much slower procedure than reloading a semi-automatic pistol.
This is historically logical: the hole drilled through the chambers of .36-caliber cap-and-ball revolvers when converting those to work with cartridges was 0.3800 inches (9.65 mm), and the cartridge made to work in those revolvers was logically named the .38 Colt. The original cartridges used a heeled bullet like a .22 rimfire where the bullet ...
Calibers in the size range of (mm, inches): 2 mm (.079+ caliber) ... Table of handgun and rifle cartridges; By name. List of Winchester Center Fire cartridges;
Lists of gun cartridges contain articles about gun cartridges of different types. Cartridges can be classified by type of firearm, by caliber or by type of primer (e.g. centerfire, rimfire). See Category:Cartridge families for more information on different categories of cartridges. The lists include:
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 ...