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The .356 Winchester is a semi-rimmed, bottle-necked, centerfire rifle cartridge which was designed for use in lever-action rifles. It was developed concurrently with the
The .356 Winchester was developed using the case similar to that of the
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.356 Winchester
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.307 Winchester
The .307 Winchester cartridge was introduced by Winchester in 1982 to meet the demand of .300 Savage performance in a lever-action rifle equipped with a tubular magazine. It is nearly dimensionally identical to the more common .308 Winchester ...
which acted as the parent cartridge. Both cartridges were introduced in 1982 in the then-new Model 94 XTR lever-action rifle.
Description
The .356 Winchester was developed using the case similar to that of the .308 Winchester
The .308 Winchester is a smokeless powder rimless bottlenecked rifle cartridge widely used for hunting, target shooting, police, military, and personal protection applications globally. It is similar but not identical to the 7.62×51mm NATO ...
but which featured a semi-rimmed design so as to operate through a lever-action rifle. Hence the .358 Winchester
The .358 Winchester is a .35 caliber rifle cartridge based on a necked up .308 Winchester created by Winchester in 1955. The cartridge is also known in Europe as the 9.1x51mm.
History
This cartridge came over 30 years later than the .35 Whe ...
, which is essentially .308 Winchester necked up to accept a bullet, is very similar to that of the .356 Winchester, with the only difference being the design of the rim.
Performance of the .356 Winchester is close to that of the .358 Winchester giving up only with any bullet weight. However, the .356 has slightly less case capacity than the .358 Winchester due to its thicker brass case. Furthermore, heavier bullets will need to be seated more deeply than in the .358 Winchester as the cartridge has to function reliably through a lever rifle's feeding mechanism. For these reasons the factory bullet loses about to the .358 Winchester while the factory load is only slower.
The Marlin Model 336ER was offered in .356 Winchester for several years, but was discontinued in 1987. The same year, Winchester ceased production of their Model 94s chambered for .356 Winchester. It was brought back immediately in 1988, but was again discontinued in the mid-1990s.
Despite its nomenclature, .356 Winchester actually uses a .358 caliber bullet. Olin engineers who developed the .356 Winchester advise against loading it with anything other than flat-nose or Hornady Leverevolution bullets for use in a tubular-magazine lever action rifle. If being loaded for use in single-shot, double-rifle, or most bolt action rifles, any bullet type could be used.
Dimensions
See also
*List of rifle cartridges
List of rifle cartridges, by primer type, calibre and name.
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*Glossary of firearms terminology
The following are terms related to firearms and ammunition topics.
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*Accurize, accurizing: The process of altering a stock firearm to improve its accuracy.
* Action: The physical mechanism that manipulates cartridges and/or seals the breech. ...
References
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