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The most well-known is the .44 Magnum which uses a 0.429 to 0.430 inch diameter bullet, depending on jacket or cast. Though less common than the smaller .38 caliber family of cartridges, the caliber is popular with many shooters and the .44 Magnum in particular facilitated the rise of handgun hunting. Its role as the most powerful handgun ...
The .44 Remington Magnum, also known as .44 Magnum or 10.9x33mmR (as it is known in unofficial metric designation), is a rimmed, large-bore cartridge originally designed for revolvers and quickly adopted for carbines and rifles. Despite the ".44" designation, guns chambered for the .44 Magnum round, its parent case, the .44 Special, and the .44 ...
The .44-40 Winchester (10.8x33mmR), also known as .44 Winchester, .44 WCF (Winchester Center Fire), and .44 Largo (in Spanish-speaking countries), was introduced in 1873 by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. It was the first metallic centerfire cartridge manufactured by Winchester, and was promoted as the standard chambering for the new ...
1,125 ft/s (343 m/s) 568 ft⋅lbf (770 J) .44 Henry Flat cartridge. The .44 Henry, also known as the .44 Henry Flat, the .44 Rimfire, the .44 Long Rimfire, and the 11x23mmRF (11x23mm Rimmed) in Europe, [ 2 ] is a rimfire rifle and handgun cartridge featuring a .875 in (22.2 mm)-long brass or copper case. The round has a total overall length of ...
Description. Used in the Smith & Wesson Model 3, it was introduced around 1869. [1] Between 1871 and 1873, the .44 Model 3 was used as the standard United States Army sidearm. [1] It was also offered in the Merwin Hulbert & Co. Army revolvers. [1] The cartridge used an outside lubricated heeled bullet, either Boxer or Berdan priming, [1] and ...
2,000 ft/s (610 m/s) 2,665 ft⋅lbf (3,613 J) Test barrel length: 24 in. Source (s): Hornady [1] / Remington [2] The .444 Marlin (10.9×57mmR) is a rifle cartridge designed in 1964 by Marlin Firearms and Remington Arms. It was designed to fill the gap left when the older .45-70 cartridge was not available in new lever-action rifles; at the time ...
The Henry repeating rifle is a lever-action tubular magazine rifle. It is famous for having been used at the Battle of the Little Bighorn and having been the basis for the iconic Winchester rifle of the American Wild West. Designed and introduced by Benjamin Tyler Henry in 1860, the original Henry was a sixteen-shot .44 caliber rimfire breech ...
22 Grendel (wildcat) aka 224 Grendel. .22 Nosler. .22 PPC. .22 ARC. .222 Remington (sometimes chambered in countries where ownership of military cartridges is illegal) .223 Remington – Original AR-15 cartridge: .223 cartridges may function in a 5.56×45mm rifle, however 5.56×45mm cartridges may produce excessive pressure in a .223 Rem rifle.