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  2. Cartridge (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    2. Cartridge case, which holds all parts together; 3. Propellant, for example, gunpowder or cordite; 4. Rim, which provides the extractor on the firearm a place to grip the casing to remove it from the chamber once fired; 5. Primer, which ignites the propellant. A cartridge, [1][2] also known as a round, is a type of pre-assembled firearm ...

  3. Glossary of firearms terms - Wikipedia

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    Battle rifle: A service rifle capable of semi-automatic or fully automatic fire of a full-power rifle cartridge. Bayonet lug: An attachment point at the muzzle end of a long gun for a bayonet. Belt: An ammunition belt is a device used to retain and feed cartridges into some machine guns in place of a magazine.

  4. List of rifle cartridges - Wikipedia

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    .300 Precision Rifle Cartridge.300-221.300 AAC Blackout.300 H&H Magnum.300 Blaser Magnum.300 ICL Grizzly.300 Lapua Magnum.300 Norma Magnum.300 Remington Short Action Ultra Magnum.300 Remington Ultra Magnum.300 Rook.300 Ruger Compact Magnum.300 Savage.300 Sherwood.300 Weatherby Magnum.300 Whisper.300 Winchester Magnum.300 Winchester Short Magnum

  5. 7.62×51mm NATO - Wikipedia

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    The 7.62×51mm NATO (official NATO nomenclature 7.62 NATO) is a rimless, straight walled, bottlenecked rifle cartridge. It is a standard for small arms among NATO countries. First developed in the 1950s, the cartridge had first been introduced in U.S. service for the M14 rifle and M60 machine gun.

  6. .45-70 - Wikipedia

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    Accurate Powder [6][7][8] The .45-70, also known as the .45-70 Government, .45-70 Springfield, and .45-2⁄10" Sharps, is a .45 caliber rifle cartridge originally holding 70 grains of black powder that was developed at the U.S. Army 's Springfield Armory for use in the Springfield Model 1873.

  7. Table of handgun and rifle cartridges - Wikipedia

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    Table of handgun and rifle cartridges. 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. Data values are the highest found for the ...

  8. M14 rifle - Wikipedia

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    The M14 rifle, officially the United States Rifle, Caliber 7.62 mm, M14, is an American battle rifle chambered for the 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge.It became the standard-issue rifle for the U.S. military in 1957, replacing the M1 Garand rifle in service with the U.S. Army by 1958 and the U.S. Marine Corps by 1965; deliveries of service rifles to the U.S. Army began in 1959.

  9. List of 5.56×45mm NATO firearms - Wikipedia

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    The table below gives a list of firearms that can fire the 5.56×45mm NATO cartridge, first developed and used in the late 1970s for the M16 rifle, which to date, is the most widely produced weapon in this caliber. [1]