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List of Winchester Center Fire rifle cartridges.More commonly known as WCF, it is a family of cartridges designed by Winchester Repeating Arms Company. [1] There are many other Winchester cartridges that do not carry the WCF moniker, such as the .300 WSM. .270 Winchester, and .300 Winchester Magnum
This primer was created specifically to provide reliable ignition for compressed powder charges in large capacity cases. [52] All reloading manuals provide loading data using only this particular primer to develop reloading data for the .460 Weatherby Magnum. In a pinch the Winchester WLRM primer or primers with similar brisance may be substituted.
The .38-56 Winchester Center Fire / 9.59x53mmR or .38-56 Winchester cartridge was introduced in 1887 by Winchester for the Winchester Model 1886, [3] and was also used in the Marlin Model of 1895. Project and history
The .405 Winchester / 10.45x65mmR (.405 WCF) is a rimmed centerfire rifle cartridge introduced in 1904 for the Winchester 1895 lever-action rifle. [4] It remains to this day one of the most powerful rimmed cartridges designed specifically for lever-action rifles; the only modern lever action cartridges that exceed its performance are the .50 Alaskan, .450 Alaskan, .475 Turnbull, .348 Turnbull ...
The .378 Weatherby generates considerable free recoil with full-power loads, for an average of 72 ft·lbf from a 9 lb rifle. This compares to 23 ft·lbf from a rifle chambered for .30-06 Springfield or 44 ft·lbf for the .375 H&H Magnum. However, the .458 Winchester Magnum generates 78 ft·lbf and the .458 Lott produces 86 ft·lbf of free ...
The high-velocity smokeless load was in a class with the .444 Marlin, [4] and its power exceeded the .348 [5] and .358 Winchester. [ 6 ] Winchester continued to offer the cartridge commercially until 1935 [ 1 ] and while it is still offered by some suppliers, due to its obsolescence and resultant obscurity, it is significantly more costly than ...
The original Winchester factory load consisted of a 275-grain (17.8 g) bullet at 1,480 ft/s (450 m/s). [1] This straight-walled cartridge case was designed for black powder rather than smokeless powder. .38-72 Winchester case dimensions. Besides the Winchester 1895 lever-action, the .38-72 WCF was chambered in the Winchester 1885 single-shot rifle.
Winchester offered factory loaded .256 Magnum ammunition (and brass to reloaders) into the beginning of the 1990s. Winchester .256 factory loads used a 60 grain Open Point Expanding bullet at a MV of 2760 fps and ME of 1015 ft. lbs. from a 24-inch rifle barrel. That is about 500 fps faster than Winchester factory loads for the old .25-20 cartridge.