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British Royal Bermuda Regiment soldier manipulating a magazine contained in the left-hand ammunition pouch of a Multi-Terrain Pattern PLCE set. Personal load carrying equipment (PLCE) is one of several tactical webbing systems of the British Armed Forces. [1] Dependent upon the year of design, and the decade of introduction, the webbing system ...
The .308 Norma Magnum (7.62×65mmBR) cartridge was created by Nils Kvale at Norma, Sweden. Like the larger .358 Norma Magnum it is based on a shortened 300 H&H magnum. [1][2] It very closely resembled the wildcat .30-338 Magnum cartridge. [3][2] Kvale designed a wildcat cartridge, the 8mm Kvale, in 1949. This gave a magnum power cartridge by ...
Bandolier. Mexican Revolutionary General Pancho Villa wearing two bandoliers. A bandolier or a bandoleer is a pocketed belt for holding either individual cartridges, belts of ammunition or grenades. It is usually slung sash -style over the shoulder and chest, with the ammunition pockets across the midriff and chest. [1]
2,510 ft/s (770 m/s) 2,588 ft⋅lbf (3,509 J) Test barrel length: 24 in (26 in for Lapua) [1] The .308 Winchester is a smokeless powder rimless bottlenecked rifle cartridge widely used for hunting, target shooting, police, military, and personal protection applications globally. It is similar, but not identical, to the 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge.
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The .308 Marlin Express is a cartridge developed in 2007 by Marlin Firearms and Hornady. It is based on the .307 Winchester with a goal to duplicate .308 Winchester performance. The cartridge uses a slightly shorter, semi-rimmed case similar to that of the .220 Swift to function in lever-action rifles. As introduced in Hornady's LEVERevolution ...
Belt (firearms) An M60 machine gun belt loaded with 7.62×51mm NATO cartridges, aboard a U.S. Navy patrol craft. An ammunition belt is a firearm device used to package and feed cartridges, typically for rapid-firing automatic weapons such as machine guns. Belt-fed systems minimize the proportional weight of the ammunition apparatus to the ...
200 gr (13 g) SP. 2,822 ft/s (860 m/s) 3,538 ft⋅lbf (4,797 J) Test barrel length: 24". Source (s): Reloading data at Accurate Powder. Measured Drawing, 300 WSM. 300 Winchester Short Magnum (also known as 300 WSM) is a .30 caliber rebated rim bottlenecked centerfire short magnum cartridge that was introduced in 2001 by Winchester.