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The Remington Model 887 Nitro Mag is a pump-action shotgun formerly manufactured by Remington Arms Company, Inc. It is noted for using a polymer finish called ArmorLokt, [ 1 ] which is designed to survive any type of weather condition and leaves no exterior surfaces to rust. [ 4 ]
There is a large variety of express rounds, including the Nitro Express family of cartridges. Older black powder express cartridges include: .450/400 Black Powder Express.450 Black Powder Express.500/450 No 1 Black Powder Express.500/450 Magnum Black Powder Express.500 Black Powder Express.577/500 No 2 Black Powder Express.577 Black Powder Express
The .460 cartridge achieves high velocities by combining light-for-caliber bullets, a large case capacity, and the high chamber pressures (65,000 psi maximum) typical of magnum rifle cartridges. At the same time, the recoil when shooting .45 Colt ammunition out of the Smith & Wesson Model 460 is comparable to recoil from a 9mm or .380 load, due ...
The .500/450 Magnum BPE was created by necking down the .500 Black Powder Express to .45-inches. [2]For some time after the turn of the century, the .500/450 Magnum BPE was loaded with cordite to become the .500/450 Magnum Nitro for Black, the same cartridge loaded with mild loadings of cordite, carefully balanced through trial to replicate the ballistics of the Black powder version.
[2] 500/450 Magnum Nitro Express was introduced by Holland & Holland for their single shot and double rifles during the late 1890s. By the time the .500/450 Nitro Express appeared, the early issues with the .450 Nitro Express had been resolved, and it quickly became the most popular and widely used Elephant hunting round, leaving the .500/450 ...
The .500/465 Nitro Express is the only other cartridge with the same bullet diameter as the .465 H&H Magnum. Both cartridges are designed to fire a 480-grain (31 g) .468 caliber (11.89 mm) bullet. Although the cartridge is capable of operating at rather high pressures, Holland & Holland chose to load the cartridge to a moderate pressure of ...
The .458 Winchester Magnum is a belted, straight-taper cased, Big Five game rifle cartridge. It was introduced commercially in 1956 by Winchester and first chambered in the Winchester Model 70 African rifle. [3] It was designed to compete against the .450 Nitro Express and the .470 Nitro Express cartridges used in big bore British double rifles ...
A magnum cartridge is a firearm cartridge with a larger case size than, or derived from, a similar cartridge of the same projectile caliber and case shoulder shape. [ clarification needed ] The term derives from the .357 Magnum , the original revolver cartridge with this designation.