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The .350 Legend, also called 350 LGND (9×43mmRB), is a SAAMI-standardized [2] straight-walled intermediate rifle cartridge developed by Winchester Repeating Arms. The cartridge was designed for use in American states that have specific regulations for deer hunting with straight-walled centerfire cartridges.
8.6mm Blackout (8.6×43 mm), also sometimes referred to as 8.6 BLK, [1] is a centerfire rifle cartridge developed by the firearms manufacturer Q, LLC. [6] It utilizes a shortened case from the 6.5mm Creedmoor necked up to an 8.6 mm caliber (8.585 mm or 0.338 in diameter) projectile. 8.6 Blackout is designed for use in bolt-action rifles or as a caliber conversion for AR-10 style rifles.
The 8×68mm S performance was also made available to hunters who previously had problems with handling magnum cartridge recoil and had stepped down to less powerful but for German conditions adequate medium cartridges like the 8×57mm IS, 7×64mm (Brenneke) or .30-06 Springfield (also known as the 7.62×63mm in metric countries).
The .375 SOCOM is a fairly new cartridge, designed by Tromix in 2013. Taking a .458 SOCOM cartridge case and sizing the neck down to .375 caliber, resulted in a hard hitting AR-15 compatible cartridge, that has a considerable velocity and range advantage over the .458 SOCOM as well as other big bore AR-15 cartridges.
The .425 Westley Richards (11x67mmRB) is one of the classic African big-game rounds.It is a cartridge invented by Leslie Bown Taylor of Westley Richards, a gunmaking firm of Birmingham, England in 1909 as a proprietary cartridge for their bolt-action rifles.
The patron m/32 round had the same overall length as the .30-06 Springfield cartridge, which allowed it to fit in the standard Browning receiver, but used a larger diameter case and share the 6.5×55mm 12.2 mm (0.48 in) diameter bolt face.
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Another influence was a series of 6 mm cartridges developed for bench-rest target shooting competitions in the 1970s. The idea behind these cartridges was that a short, fat cartridge would be more "efficient" than the traditional long, narrow cartridge, as more of the powder column would be in the immediate vicinity of the primer as it detonated.