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The .308 Winchester is measured across the grooves and uses a .308-in diameter (7.82-mm) bullet; the military-specification version is known as 7.62 × 51 mm NATO, so called because the bore diameter measured between the lands is 7.62 mm, and the cartridge has a case 51 mm long.
The difference in .38 Special bullet diameter and case diameter reflects the thickness of the case mouth (approximately 11/1000-inch per side). The .357 Magnum evolved from the .38 Special. The .357 was named to reflect bullet diameter (in thousandths inch), not case diameter. "Magnum" was used to indicate its longer case and higher operating ...
All three had a bore diameter of 5 inches (not 5.51 or 5.25 or 5.38 as often misread). Naval rifles, although constructed and manufactured in roughly the same manners as land-based artillery, were built to much more stringent and studious standards than land-based weapons, and for good reason. At sea, a weapon had to perform, without fail.
Land diameter: 7.62 mm (0.300 in) Neck diameter: 8.63 mm (0.340 in) ... The bullet is known to cause excessive wear to barrels with the barrel maintaining accuracy ...
An n-gauge diameter means that a ball of lead (density 11.34 g/cm 3 or 0.4097 lb/in 3) with that diameter has a mass equal to 1 / n part of the mass of the international avoirdupois pound (approx. 454 grams), that is, that n such lead balls could be cast from a pound weight of lead.
Bullet drop and wind drift are shown both in mil and moa. The 7.62×51mm NATO has a 3.38 mL (52.0 gr H 2 O) cartridge case capacity. The exterior shape of the case was designed to promote reliable case feeding and extraction in bolt-action rifles and machine guns alike, under extreme conditions. 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge dimensions.
Closeup of chamber throat depicting relationship between freebore diameter, rifling groove diameter, and land diameter. The chamber is the rearmost portion of a firearm barrel that has been formed to accept a specific handgun/rifle cartridge or shotgun shell. [5]
This is a list of firearm cartridges that have bullets in the 9 millimeters (0.35 in) to 9.99 millimeters (0.393 in) caliber range.. Case length refers to the round case length.