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  2. List of the United States Army munitions by supply catalog ...

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    The M1 Bandoleer had six pockets; each pocket could hold either two 5-round stripper clips (60 rounds total) or one 8-round en-bloc clip (48 rounds total). The symbol for ammunition packed in stripper clips was 5 bullets conjoined by a long rectangle across the base (looking like 5 bullets in a Mauser clip); there were two symbols in a vertical ...

  3. Handloading - Wikipedia

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    Handloading ammunition avoids the labor costs of commercial production lines, reducing the expenditure to only the cost of purchasing components and equipment.Reloading may not be cost effective for occasional shooters, as it takes time to recoup the cost of needed equipment, but those who shoot more frequently will see cost-savings over time, as the brass cartridge cases and shotgun shell ...

  4. Clip (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    A moon clip is a ring-shaped or stellate piece of metal designed to hold a full cylinder of ammunition for a revolver (commonly 6 rounds) together as a unit. Therefore, instead of loading or extracting one round at a time, a full cylinder of ammunition or spent cases can be loaded or extracted at once, speeding the loading process.

  5. Armour-piercing discarding sabot - Wikipedia

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    Armour piercing discarding sabot munitions were developed to increase penetrating performance of anti-tank projectiles by generating higher impact velocity.A larger projectile would require a completely new weapon system, but increasing velocity faced the limitation that steel armour-piercing (AP) projectiles shattered at velocities above about 850 m/s when uncapped.

  6. Federal Riot Gun - Wikipedia

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    Its ammunition includes 37 and 38mm baton and tear gas rounds. The baton rounds were cylindrical, rubber projectiles. The baton rounds were cylindrical, rubber projectiles. The most popular model, 37-mm M201-Z, has a distinctive ringed barrel.

  7. 37 mm caliber - Wikipedia

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    37 mm gun or 3.7 cm gun can refer to several weapons or weapons systems. The "37 mm" refers to the inside diameter of the barrel of the gun, and therefore the diameter of the projectile it fires. However, the overall size and power of the gun itself can vary greatly between different weapons, in spite of them all being called "37 mm" guns.

  8. 37 mm flare - Wikipedia

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    Only non-anti-personnel rounds may be possessed or used. Such rounds include: flares; smoke rounds, to include irritating "smoke" such as CS or OC agents; noise effect ("bird bomb") rounds; Where anti-personnel rounds are to be fired from a 37 mm launcher, the launcher must be registered with the BATFE as a destructive device. Possession of a ...

  9. Tactical reload - Wikipedia

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    The main advantage of a tactical reload as opposed to a speed reload is that rounds remain in the partially spent magazine for future use. This can be important in first-person shooter games such as the majority of Call of Duty games. [4] The main disadvantage of a tactical reload as opposed to a speed reload is that reloading is slower.