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James Purdey & Sons, or simply Purdey, is a British gunmaker based in London, England specialising in high-end bespoke sporting shotguns and rifles. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Purdey holds Royal Warrants of appointment as gun and rifle makers to the British and other European royal families.
The .246 Purdey is a rimmed cartridge originally designed for use in Purdey's own double rifles. Never popular or widely used, the cartridge offers slightly less power than the .243 Winchester. [1] As is common with cartridges designed for double rifles, the .246 Purdey was offered in one loading, firing a 100 gr projectile at 2950 fps. [2]
Aggregate of articles about firearm cartridges developed by the firearms manufacturer James Purdey & Sons. Pages in category "James Purdey & Sons cartridges" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
The .400 Purdey is a rimmed straight walled centerfire rifle cartridge intended for use in single shot and double rifles.It fires a bullet of .405 inches (10.3 mm) diameter weighing 230 grains (15 g), driven by 47 grains (3.0 g) of cordite, at a listed speed of 2,050 feet per second (620 m/s).
The following is a list of firearms designed in a bullpup (i.e., action behind firecontrol/trigger group) configuration. The table is sortable for every column. Name
A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the barrel walls.The raised areas of the rifling are called "lands," which make contact with the projectile (for small arms usage, called a bullet), imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the orientation of the weapon.
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The following list of modern armament manufacturers presents major companies producing modern weapons and munitions for military, paramilitary, government agency and civilian use.