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The .243 Winchester (6×52mm) is a popular sporting rifle cartridge. Developed as a versatile short action cartridge to hunt both medium game and small game alike, it "took whitetail hunting by storm" [2] when introduced in 1955, and remains one of the most popular whitetail deer cartridges.
The .243 Winchester Super Short Magnum or .243 WSSM is a rifle cartridge introduced in 2003. It uses a .300 WSM (Winchester Short Magnum) case shortened and necked down to accept a .243in/6mm diameter bullet, and is a high velocity round based on ballistics design philosophies that are intended to produce a high level of efficiency. [2]
Winchester was a leading designer of rifle ammunition throughout its existence and has been responsible for some of the most successful cartridges ever introduced, including the .44-40 WCF (Winchester Center Fire), the .30 WCF (.30-30), the .50 BMG, the .270 Winchester, the .308 Winchester, the .243 Winchester, the .22 WMR (.22 Magnum), the ...
.243 Winchester.270 Winchester.308 Winchester.30-06 Springfield. 7mm-08 Remington. 2012 United States: Murata rifle: 11x60mmR Murata 8x53mmR Murata 1885 Empire of Japan: Remington Model 700.223 Remington.243 Winchester.300 Winchester Magnum.300 Remington Ultra Magnum.308 Winchester.338 Lapua Magnum. 7.62×51mm NATO. 1962 United States: Ross ...
A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the barrel walls.The raised areas of the rifling are called "lands," which make contact with the projectile (for small arms usage, called a bullet), imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the orientation of the weapon.
The Remington Model 798 is a bolt-action rifle that was sold by Remington Arms from 2006 until 2008. The gun was made as a hunting rifle. [1] It is composed of an imported Zastava Arms barreled action assembled with a laminated stock after import to the United States. It is based on a Mauser 98 action.
Savage was the first major manufacturer to produce a left-handed hunting rifle in significant quantities, starting in 1959. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] [ 42 ] Savage Arms sells 18 different firearms for left-handed shooters with products designed for big game, law enforcement, target competition, and predator hunting, including left-handed slug shotguns and ...
Falling-block action military rifles were common in the 19th century. They were replaced for military use by the faster bolt-action rifles, which were typically reloaded from a magazine holding several cartridges. [2] A falling-block breech-loading rifle was patented in Belgium by J. F. Jobard in 1835 using a unique self-contained cartridge. [3]