The .358 Winchester / 9.1x51mm is a .35
caliber
In guns, particularly firearms, but not #As a measurement of length, artillery, where a different definition may apply, caliber (or calibre; sometimes abbreviated as "cal") is the specified nominal internal diameter of the gun barrel Gauge ( ...
rifle
A rifle is a long gun, long-barreled firearm designed for accurate shooting and higher stopping power, with a gun barrel, barrel that has a helical or spiralling pattern of grooves (rifling) cut into the bore wall. In keeping with their focus o ...
cartridge based on a necked up
.308 Winchester created by
Winchester
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in 1955. The cartridge is also known in Europe as the 9.1x51mm.
History
This cartridge came over 30 years later than the
.35 Whelen which is based on the
.30-06 Springfield. The relationship in performance between the .358 Win and the .35 Whelen is similar to that between the .308 Win and the .30-06.
It created a round more powerful than the
.35 Remington and
.348 Winchester.
Popularity of this cartridge has dwindled
but
Browning Arms Company
Browning Arms Company (originally John Moses and Matthew Sandefur Browning Company) is an American marketer of firearms and fishing gear. The company was founded in Ogden, Utah, in 1878 by brothers John Moses Browning (1855–1926) and M ...
still produces the
Browning BLR in .358 and numerous other rifles, such as the
Winchester Model 70,
Winchester Model 88, and the
Savage Model 99 are available on the used gun rack; a number of companies (see availability below) still produce the ammunition. Noted web firearms author Chuck Hawks agrees with the Speer reloading manual that "the .358 Winchester is one of the best woods cartridges ever designed."
Performance and Availability
The Winchester Super-X Silvertip consists of a pointed soft point bullet with an advertised muzzle velocity of , and an advertised muzzle energy of .
Cartridge cases can be formed from .308 cases.
See also
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List of rifle cartridges
List of rifle cartridges, by primer type, Caliber, calibre and name.
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9 mm caliber
This is a list of firearm cartridges that have bullets in the to caliber range.
*''Case length'' refers to the round case
Case or CASE may refer to:
Instances
* Instantiation (disambiguation), a realization of a concept, theme, or design
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.35 Remington
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.360 Buckhammer
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.35 Whelen
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Table of handgun and rifle cartridges
This is a table of selected pistol/submachine gun and rifle/machine gun cartridges by common name. Data values are the highest found for the cartridge, and might not occur in the same load (e.g. the highest muzzle energy might not be in the same ...
References
External links
Winchester's Sleeper. . .358 WCF, by Paco KellyWestern Powders Handloading Guide Edition 8.0
Reloading info from Western Powders (p. 43)
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