Below is a list of rimfire cartridges, ordered by

caliber In guns, particularly firearms, caliber (or calibre; sometimes abbreviated as "cal") is the specified nominal internal diameter of the gun barrel bore – regardless of how or where the bore is measured and whether the finished bore ma ...

, small to large.

Rimfire ammunition Rimfire ammunition is a type of firearm metallic cartridge whose primer is located within a hollow circumferential rim protruding from the base of its casing. When fired, the gun's firing pin will strike and crush the rim against the edge o ...

is a type of

metallic cartridge A cartridge or a round is a type of pre-assembled firearm ammunition packaging a projectile (bullet, shot, or slug), a propellant substance (usually either smokeless powder or black powder) and an ignition device ( primer) within a metallic, ...

whose primer is located within a hollow circumferential rim protruding from the base of its casing. Among the most common rimfire cartridges are

.22 caliber .22 caliber, or 5.6 mm caliber, refers to a common firearms bore diameter of 0.22 inch (5.6 mm). Cartridges in this caliber include the very widely used .22 Long Rifle and .223 Remington / 5.56×45mm NATO. .22 inch is also a popular ...

and .17 caliber. The bullet diameter for the ubiquitous .22 Long Rifle is .222 inch (5.64 mm) while .17 caliber firearms, both rimfire and centerfire, generally measure .172 inch (4.37 mm).

List

* 2.34mm * .14 Alton Jones * .17 Hornady Mach 2 (.17 HM2) * .17 Hornady Magnum Rimfire (.17 HMR) * .17 PMC/Aguila * .17 Winchester Super Magnum * 5 mm Remington Rimfire Magnum * .22 Short * .22 Long * .22 Extra Long * .22 Long Rifle * .22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire (.22 WMR) * .22 Winchester Rimfire (.22 WRF) * .22 ILARCO *

.22 CB The .22 CB cap (conical breech cap) is a more powerful version of the .22 BB cap (aka: 6mm Flobert) rimfire metallic cartridge, which was invented by Louis-Nicolas Flobert in 1845. The .22 BB cap and .22 CB cap are interchangeable and are rela ...

* .22 BB (6mm Flobert) * .22 Remington Automatic * .22 Winchester Automatic * .25 Short (.25 Bacon & Bliss) * .25 Stevens * .25 Stevens Short * .267 Remington * .277 rimfire * .30 rimfire * .310 Remington Skeet * .31 Eley * .32 rimfire * .340 rimfire revolver * .35 Allen *

9mm Flobert Frenchman Louis-Nicolas Flobert (1819–1894) invented the first rimfire metallic cartridge in 1845. It was a major innovation in firearms ammunition, previously delivered as separate bullets and powder. The rimfire cartridge combined both elemen ...

* .38 rimfire * .41 Short * .41 Swiss (10.4x38R rimfire) * .42 Allen * .44 Short & Long * .440 * .442 Eley * .44 Henry * .45 Danish * .46 rimfire * .50 Remington Navy * .50 Government * 14x33mm Wänzl * .56-46, 56-50, 56-52, .56-56 Spencer * .58 Gatling * .58 Joslyn carbine * .58 Mont Storm * .58 Miller * 1" Gatling (one specimen known)

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