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Components of a modern bottleneck rifle cartridge. Top-to-bottom: Copper-jacketed bullet, smokeless powder granules, rimless brass case, Boxer primer.. Handloading, or reloading, is the practice of making firearm cartridges by manually assembling the individual components (metallic/polymer case, primer, propellant and projectile), rather than purchasing mass-assembled, factory-loaded ...
After this came the more compact .22/.32 Target I-frame revolvers. The .22/.32 Kit Gun was so named because it was intended to be carried in a kit bag. [citation needed] The Kit Gun line began as an I-Frame, .22 caliber 6-shot revolver in 1953, and its model designation at the time was 'Model of 1953'. This is sometimes called the 'pre-34'.
A tactical reload is reloading a weapon that has only fired a few rounds out of its magazine, while retaining the original magazine. [1] [2] An example is an infantryman reloading before entering a hostile building, concerned about ammunition. [3]
The .400 Cor-Bon is one of the more useful of the current crop of .45 ACP offspring. There are faster rounds, but the .400 Cor-Bon is simply easy to get along with. You don't need extra-heavy springs or tricked-out guns for this round -- just drop a .400 Cor-Bon barrel in your favorite .45 and you are good to go. [5]
Although not originally designed for handguns, several rifle and shotgun cartridges have also been chambered in a number of large handguns, primarily in revolvers like the Phelps Heritage revolver, Century Arms revolver, Thompson/Centre Contender break-open pistol, Magnum Research BFR, and the Pfeifer Zeliska revolvers.
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Because it is very dimensionally-similar, however, the shorter .22 short, .22 long, and .22 LR will chamber in weapons designed for it [2] (in the same way a .38 Special cartridge can be loaded into a .357 Magnum revolver, or a .44 Special cartridge can be loaded into a .44 Magnum) revolver. [citation needed]