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rifle cartridge A rifle cartridge is a firearm cartridge (firearms), cartridge primarily designed and intended for use in a rifle/carbine, or machine gun. Types Full-powered A full-powered cartridge is a rifle cartridge used interchangeably between servic ...

s, by primer type,

calibre In guns, particularly firearms, but not artillery, where a different definition may apply, caliber (or calibre; sometimes abbreviated as "cal") is the specified nominal internal diameter of the gun barrel bore – regardless of how or wher ...

and name. File:Cartridge Sample 2.jpg, 350px, From left to right: 1 .17 Hornady Mach 2, 2 .17 Hornady Magnum Rimfire, 3 .22 Long Rifle, 4 .22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire, 5 .17/23 SMc, 6 5mm/35 SMc, 7 .22 Hornet, 8 .223 Remington, 9 .223 WSSM, 10 .243 Winchester, 11 .243 Winchester Improved (Ackley), 12 .25-06 Remington, 13 .270 Winchester, 14 .308 Winchester, 15 .30-06 Springfield, 16 .45-70 Government, 17 .50-90 Sharps rect 54 345 101 556 .17 Hornady Mach 2 rect 110 296 153 556 .17 Hornady Magnum Rimfire rect 159 341 207 556 .22 Long Rifle rect 211 294 265 556 .22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire rect 271 221 341 556 .17/23 SMc rect 345 186 432 556 5 mm/35 SMc rect 441 225 513 556 .22 Hornet rect 521 151 602 556 .223 Remington rect 610 134 724 556 .223 Winchester Super Short Magnum rect 732 95 832 556 .243 Winchester rect 838 85 929 556 .243 Winchester Improved (Ackley) rect 937 23 1030 556 .25-06 Remington rect 1039 25 1123 556 .270 Winchester rect 1132 93 1218 556 .308 Winchester rect 1227 17 1316 556 .30-06 Springfield rect 1326 106 1440 556 .45-70 Government rect 1456 31 1585 556 .50-90 Sharps desc none

Rim fire cartridges

Center fire cartridges

Inches

Smaller than .30 caliber

.30 caliber – .39 caliber

.40 caliber – .49 caliber

.50 caliber and larger

File:Rifle cartridge comparison.jpg, 300px, From left to right: .50 BMG, .300 Win Mag, .308 Winchester, 7.62 Soviet, 5.56 NATO, .22LR rect 5 3 76 417 .50 BMG rect 85 160 147 428 .300 Win Mag rect 160 202 213 429 .308 Winchester rect 235 244 285 428 7.62 Soviet rect 309 243 361 427 5.56 NATO rect 371 340 413 429 .22LR desc none

Metric

Smaller than 6 mm

* 4.25mm Liliput * 4.5mm mkr * 4.6×30mm *

4.85×49mm The 4.85×49mm is an experimental intermediate cartridge, intermediate Cartridge (firearms), firearm cartridge made by the United Kingdom for the Individual Weapon Project, which became the SA80 series of small arms. Design The 4.85×49mm cartr ...

* 5mm Craig * 5mm/35 SMc *

5.45×18mm 5.45×18mm MPTs (7N7) is a Soviet pistol cartridge. It is chambered in the PSM pistol, OTs-23 Drotik machine pistol, and OTs-26 pistol. History and design It was designed in the Soviet Union in the early 1970s by Antonina D. Denisova at ...

* 5.45×39mm *

5.56×21mm PINDAD The 5.56×21mm PINDAD was a personal defence weapon round previously developed in Indonesia. The round is based on the 5.56×45mm NATO cartridge, being a cut down version of it. It is sometimes known as 5.56×23mm. Development The 5.56x21 2.65 ...

* 5.56×30mm MINSAS * 5.56×45mm NATO * 5.6×50mm Magnum * 5.6×57mm * 5.6×57mmR * 5.6×61mm VHSE * 5.7×28mm * 5.8×21mm *

5.8×42mm The 5.8×42mm / DBP87 ( zh, p=Dàn, Bùqiāng, Pŭtōng, 87, s=弹，步枪，普通 87, ) is a military bottlenecked intermediate cartridge developed in the People's Republic of China. There is limited information on this cartridge, although ...

6 mm–7 mm

7 mm–8 mm

8 mm–9 mm

9 mm and larger

Bore/gauge

* .360 bore — * .410 bore — * 32 gauge — * 28 gauge — * 24 gauge — * 20 gauge — * 16 gauge — * 14 gauge — * 12 gauge — * 10 bore — * 8 bore — * 6 bore — *

4 bore Four bore or 4 bore is a black powder caliber of the 19th century, used for the hunting of large and potentially dangerous game animals. The specifications place this caliber between the larger 2 bore and the smaller 6 bore rifles. This caliber ...

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2 bore Two bore or 2 bore is an obsolete firearm caliber. Specifications Two bore firearms generally fire spherical balls or slugs made of hardened lead, or in the case of a modern metallic cartridge with either solid brass or bronze projectiles. The ...

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Rifles A rifle is a long-barreled firearm designed for accurate shooting and higher stopping power, with a barrel that has a helical or spiralling pattern of grooves ( rifling) cut into the bore wall. In keeping with their focus on accuracy, rifle ...

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