List of rifle cartridges
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List of rifle cartridge
Rifle cartridge
A rifle cartridge is a type of cartridge fired by a longer ranged rifled weapons.- Intermediate :An intermediate cartridge is a military rifle cartridge that is less powerful than typical full power battle rifle cartridges such as the 7.92mm Mauser or US .30-06, but still significantly more...

s, by category, then by name.

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.17 HM2
The .17 Hornady Mach 2, or .17 HM2, is a rimfire cartridge introduced in 2004 by the ammunition manufacturer Hornady, following the successful launch in 2002 of the .17 HMR...

, 2 .17 HMR
.17 HMR
.17 Hornady Magnum Rimfire, commonly known as the .17 HMR, is a rimfire rifle cartridge developed by the ammunition company Hornady in 2002. It descended from the .22 Magnum by necking down the .22 Magnum case to take a .17 caliber bullet, and it is more costly to shoot than traditional .22...

, 3 .22LR, 4 .22 WMR
.22 WMR
The .22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire, more commonly called .22 WMR, .22 Magnum, or simply .22 Mag, is a rimfire rifle cartridge...

, 5 .17/23 SMc, 6 5mm/35 SMc, 7 .22 Hornet
.22 Hornet
The .22 Hornet is a low-end vermin, small-game and predator centerfire rifle cartridge. It is considerably more powerful than the .22 WMR and the .17 HMR, achieving higher velocity with a bullet twice the weight. The Hornet also differs very significantly from these in that it is not a rimfire...

, 8 .223 Remington
.223 Remington
The .223 Remington is a sporting cartridge with almost the same external dimensions as the 5.56×45mm NATO military cartridge. The name is commonly pronounced either two-two-three or two-twenty-three. It is loaded with a diameter, jacketed bullet, with weights ranging from , though the most common...

, 9 .223 WSSM
.223 WSSM
The .223 WSSM is a .224 caliber rifle cartridge created by Winchester and Browning based on a shortened version of the Winchester Short Magnum case.- History :...

, 10 .243 Winchester
.243 Winchester
The .243 Winchester is a popular sporting rifle cartridge. Initially designed as a varmint round, it is now more frequently used on medium to large game such as whitetail deer, mule deer, pronghorn, wild hogs, and even black bear and caribou...

, 11 .243 Winchester Improved (Ackley)
.243 Winchester
The .243 Winchester is a popular sporting rifle cartridge. Initially designed as a varmint round, it is now more frequently used on medium to large game such as whitetail deer, mule deer, pronghorn, wild hogs, and even black bear and caribou...

, 12 .25-06 Remington
.25-06 Remington
The .25-06 Remington had been a wildcat cartridge for half a century before being standardized by Remington in 1969. It is based on the .30-06 Springfield cartridge necked-down to .257 inch caliber with no other changes...

, 13 .270 Winchester
.270 Winchester
The .270 Winchester was developed by Winchester Repeating Arms Company in 1923 and unveiled in 1925 as a chambering for their bolt-action Model 54. The cartridge is based upon the .30-06 Springfield...

, 14 .308, 15 .30-06, 16 .45-70
.45-70
The .45-70 rifle cartridge, also known as .45-70 Government, was developed at the U.S. Army's Springfield Armory for use in the Springfield Model 1873...

, 17 .50-90 Sharps
.50-90 Sharps
The .50-90 Sharps rifle cartridge is a black powder cartridge that was introduced by Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company in 1872 as a buffalo hunting round...



rect 54 345 101 556 .17 HM2
.17 HM2
The .17 Hornady Mach 2, or .17 HM2, is a rimfire cartridge introduced in 2004 by the ammunition manufacturer Hornady, following the successful launch in 2002 of the .17 HMR...


rect 110 296 153 556 .17 HMR
.17 HMR
.17 Hornady Magnum Rimfire, commonly known as the .17 HMR, is a rimfire rifle cartridge developed by the ammunition company Hornady in 2002. It descended from the .22 Magnum by necking down the .22 Magnum case to take a .17 caliber bullet, and it is more costly to shoot than traditional .22...


rect 159 341 207 556 .22LR
.22 Long Rifle
The .22 Long Rifle rimfire cartridge is a long established variety of ammunition, and in terms of units sold is still by far the most common in the world today. The cartridge is often referred to simply as .22 LR and various rifles, pistols, revolvers, and even some smoothbore shotguns have...


rect 211 294 265 556 .22 WMR
rect 271 221 341 556 .17/23 SMc
rect 345 186 432 556 5 mm/35 SMc
5 mm/35 SMc
5 mm/35 SMc is a high performance 5 mm cartridge. Designed by Michael "Mic" McPherson and Byrom Smalley and like all of their other designs carries the "SMc" moniker as well as being patented and having a copyright.-Description:...


rect 441 225 513 556 .22 Hornet
.22 Hornet
The .22 Hornet is a low-end vermin, small-game and predator centerfire rifle cartridge. It is considerably more powerful than the .22 WMR and the .17 HMR, achieving higher velocity with a bullet twice the weight. The Hornet also differs very significantly from these in that it is not a rimfire...


rect 521 151 602 556 .223 Remington
.223 Remington
The .223 Remington is a sporting cartridge with almost the same external dimensions as the 5.56×45mm NATO military cartridge. The name is commonly pronounced either two-two-three or two-twenty-three. It is loaded with a diameter, jacketed bullet, with weights ranging from , though the most common...


rect 610 134 724 556 .223 WSSM
rect 732 95 832 556 .243 Winchester
.243 Winchester
The .243 Winchester is a popular sporting rifle cartridge. Initially designed as a varmint round, it is now more frequently used on medium to large game such as whitetail deer, mule deer, pronghorn, wild hogs, and even black bear and caribou...


rect 838 85 929 556 .243 Winchester Improved (Ackley)
.243 Winchester
The .243 Winchester is a popular sporting rifle cartridge. Initially designed as a varmint round, it is now more frequently used on medium to large game such as whitetail deer, mule deer, pronghorn, wild hogs, and even black bear and caribou...


rect 937 23 1030 556 .25-06 Remington
.25-06 Remington
The .25-06 Remington had been a wildcat cartridge for half a century before being standardized by Remington in 1969. It is based on the .30-06 Springfield cartridge necked-down to .257 inch caliber with no other changes...


rect 1039 25 1123 556 .270 Winchester
.270 Winchester
The .270 Winchester was developed by Winchester Repeating Arms Company in 1923 and unveiled in 1925 as a chambering for their bolt-action Model 54. The cartridge is based upon the .30-06 Springfield...


rect 1132 93 1218 556 .308
.308 Winchester
The .308 Winchester is a rifle cartridge and is the commercial cartridge upon which the military 7.62x51mm NATO centerfire cartridge is based. The .308 Winchester was introduced in 1952, two years prior to the NATO adoption of the 7.62x51mm NATO T65...


rect 1227 17 1316 556 .30-06
.30-06 Springfield
The .30-06 Springfield cartridge or 7.62×63mm in metric notation, was introduced to the United States Army in 1906 and standardized, and was in use until the 1960s and early 1970s. It replaced the .30-03, 6 mm Lee Navy, and .30 US Army...


rect 1326 106 1440 556 .45-70
.45-70
The .45-70 rifle cartridge, also known as .45-70 Government, was developed at the U.S. Army's Springfield Armory for use in the Springfield Model 1873...


rect 1456 31 1585 556 .50-90 Sharps
.50-90 Sharps
The .50-90 Sharps rifle cartridge is a black powder cartridge that was introduced by Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company in 1872 as a buffalo hunting round...



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Rimfire

  • .17 Hornady Mach 2
    .17 HM2
    The .17 Hornady Mach 2, or .17 HM2, is a rimfire cartridge introduced in 2004 by the ammunition manufacturer Hornady, following the successful launch in 2002 of the .17 HMR...

     (.17HM2)
  • .17 Hornady Magnum Rimfire
    .17 HMR
    .17 Hornady Magnum Rimfire, commonly known as the .17 HMR, is a rimfire rifle cartridge developed by the ammunition company Hornady in 2002. It descended from the .22 Magnum by necking down the .22 Magnum case to take a .17 caliber bullet, and it is more costly to shoot than traditional .22...

     (.17HMR)
  • .22 BB Cap
    .22 BB
    .22 BB Cap is a variety of .22 caliber rimfire ammunition. .22 BB cap and .22 CB refer to cartridges that are low velocity and project reduced noise. These rimfires closely resemble a .22 caliber air rifle in power and are often used for indoor shooting and close range pest control...

  • .22 Long
    .22 Long
    .22 Long is a variety of .22 caliber rimfire ammunition. The .22 Long is the second oldest of the surviving rimfire cartridges, dating back to 1871, when it was loaded with a 29 grain bullet and 5 grains of black powder, 25% more than the .22 Short it was based on...

  • .22 Long Rifle
    .22 Long Rifle
    The .22 Long Rifle rimfire cartridge is a long established variety of ammunition, and in terms of units sold is still by far the most common in the world today. The cartridge is often referred to simply as .22 LR and various rifles, pistols, revolvers, and even some smoothbore shotguns have...

  • .22 Short
    .22 Short
    .22 Short is a variety of .22 caliber rimfire ammunition. Developed in 1857 for the first Smith and Wesson revolver, the .22 rimfire was the first American metallic cartridge....

  • .22 WMR
    .22 WMR
    The .22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire, more commonly called .22 WMR, .22 Magnum, or simply .22 Mag, is a rimfire rifle cartridge...

     (.22 Magnum)
  • .22 WRF
  • 5mm Remington Mag
    5 mm Remington Rimfire Magnum
    The 5 mm Remington Rimfire Magnum is an obsolete bottlenecked rimfire cartridge introduced by Remington Arms Company in 1970. Remington chambered it in a pair of bolt-action rifles, the Model 591 and Model 592, but the round never became very popular, and the rifles were discontinued in 1974....


smaller than .30 caliber

  • .17 Remington
    .17 Remington
    The .17 Remington was introduced in 1971 by Remington Arms Company for their model 700 rifles.It is based on the .223 Remington, necked down to .172in , with the shoulder moved back. It was designed exclusively as a varmint round, though it is suitable for smaller predators. There are those such as...

  • .17 Remington Fireball
    .17 Remington Fireball
    The .17 Remington Fireball was created in 2007 by Remington Arms Company as a response to the popular wildcat round, the .17 Mach IV. Factory loads drive a 20 grain bullet around 4,000 ft/s . Velocity is close to the .17 Remington but with significantly less powder, and therefore less heat and...

  • .204 Ruger
    .204 Ruger
    The .204 Ruger is a centerfire rifle cartridge developed by Hornady and Ruger. At the time of its introduction in 2004, the .204 Ruger was the highest velocity commercially produced ammunition, and the only cartridge produced commercially for bullets of .204 inch/5 mm caliber.-Characteristics:The...

  • .218 Bee
    .218 Bee
    The .218 Bee is a .22 caliber centerfire rifle cartridge designed for varmint hunting by Winchester in 1938. The cartridge was originally chambered in lever-action rifles, which may have ultimately led to its lack of popularity...

  • .219 Zipper
    .219 Zipper
    The .219 Zipper cartridge was created by Winchester Repeating Arms in 1937 to be used in their lever-action Model 64 rifle. It is a .25-35 Winchester cartridge necked down to a .22 caliber bullet...

  • .22 BR Remington
    .22 BR Remington
    The .22 Bench Rest Remington cartridge, commonly referred to as the .22 BR Remington, is a wildcat cartridge commonly used in varmint hunting and benchrest shooting. It is based on the .308 x 1½ inch Barnes cartridge, necked down to .22 caliber, lengthened by .020 inches and with the shoulder...

  • .22 Hornet
    .22 Hornet
    The .22 Hornet is a low-end vermin, small-game and predator centerfire rifle cartridge. It is considerably more powerful than the .22 WMR and the .17 HMR, achieving higher velocity with a bullet twice the weight. The Hornet also differs very significantly from these in that it is not a rimfire...

  • .22 PPC
    .22 PPC
    .22 PPC is a firearm cartridge used primarily in benchrest shooting. It was designed by Dr. Louis Palmisano and Ferris Pindell in 1974 and was originally a wildcat cartridge until 1987, when SAKO, a Finnish firearms manufacturer, began producing commercial .22 PPC rifles and ammunition...

  • .22 Spitfire
    .22 Spitfire
    The .22 Spitfire is an American rifle cartridge.Designed by Melvin M. Johnson of Johnson Guns Inc. for their conversion of the M1 carbine, this wildcat was introduced in 1963...

  • .22 WCF
  • .22-250 Remington
    .22-250 Remington
    The .22-250 Remington is a very high-velocity , short action, .22 caliber rifle cartridge primarily used for varmint hunting and small game hunting, though it finds occasional use on deer. This cartridge is also sometimes known as the 22 Varminter or the 22 Wotkyns Original Swift...

  • .220 Russian
    .220 Russian
    The .220 Russian cartridge was developed in the late 1950s for deer hunting in Russia. It is a 7.62x39 cartridge necked down to hold a 5.6mm bullet. It was later adopted by Finland, and by around 1965 was being produced by SAKO and Lapua. When it was introduced to the United States, Sako, and...

  • .220 Swift
    .220 Swift
    The .220 Swift is a semi-rimmed rifle cartridge developed by Winchester and introduced in 1935. It was the first factory loaded rifle cartridge with a muzzle velocity of over...

  • .221 Remington Fireball
    .221 Remington Fireball
    The .221 Remington Fireball was created by Remington Arms Company in 1963 for use in their single-shot bolt-action pistol called the XP-100. This was a special round designed for an experimental pistol, and has the highest velocity of any commercial pistol cartridge.-History:In the early 1960s...

  • .222 Remington
    .222 Remington
    The .222 Remington aka the Triple Deuce/Triple Two/Treble Two is a centerfire rifle cartridge introduced in 1950, and was the first commercial rimless .22 cartridge made in the United States...

  • .222 Remington Magnum
    .222 Remington Magnum
    The .222 Remington Magnum was a short-lived commercially produced cartridge derived from the .222 Remington. Originally developed for a US prototype military rifle in 1958, the cartridge was not adopted by the military, but was introduced commercially in sporting rifles.-Development:The .222 Rem....

  • .223 MINISAS
  • .223 Remington
    .223 Remington
    The .223 Remington is a sporting cartridge with almost the same external dimensions as the 5.56×45mm NATO military cartridge. The name is commonly pronounced either two-two-three or two-twenty-three. It is loaded with a diameter, jacketed bullet, with weights ranging from , though the most common...

  • .223 WSSM
    .223 WSSM
    The .223 WSSM is a .224 caliber rifle cartridge created by Winchester and Browning based on a shortened version of the Winchester Short Magnum case.- History :...

  • .224 Weatherby Magnum
    .224 Weatherby Magnum
    The .224 Weatherby Magnum is a sporting cartridge that was developed in 1963 by Roy Weatherby after about 10 years of development. It is a proprietary cartridge with no major firearms manufacturers chambering rifles for it other than Weatherby...

  • .225 Winchester
    .225 Winchester
    The .225 Winchester cartridge was created in 1964 by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. Based upon the .219 Donaldson Wasp cartridge, it is a semi-rimmed cartridge, which was an oddity for a cartridge introduced at the time...

  • .240 Weatherby Magnum
    .240 Weatherby Magnum
    The .240 Weatherby Magnum was developed in 1968 by Roy Weatherby. In the development of his own .240in/6 mm cartridge, Weatherby was significantly influenced by both the success and the limitations of the .244 H&H Magnum cartridge devised in England by his friend and colleague David Lloyd. It was...

  • .243 Winchester
    .243 Winchester
    The .243 Winchester is a popular sporting rifle cartridge. Initially designed as a varmint round, it is now more frequently used on medium to large game such as whitetail deer, mule deer, pronghorn, wild hogs, and even black bear and caribou...

  • .243 WSSM
    .243 WSSM
    The 243 Winchester Super Short Magnum or 243 WSSM is a rifle cartridge introduced in 2003. It uses a .300 WSM case shortened and necked down to accept a .243in/6mm diameter bullet, and is a high velocity round based on ballistics design philosophies that are intended to produce a high level of...

  • .244 H&H Magnum
    .244 H&H Magnum
    The .244 Holland & Holland Magnum cartridge was created in 1955 in Great Britain by deerstalker and rifle-maker David Lloyd of Pipewell Hall, Northamptonshire and Glencassley in Sutherland, Scotland, and is not to be confused with the smaller-cased and much milder 6 mm Remington...

  • .244 Remington
  • .250-3000 Savage
    .250-3000 Savage
    The .250-3000 Savage is a rifle cartridge created by Charles Newton in 1915 and is also known as the .250 Savage. The name comes from its original manufacturer, Savage Arms and the fact that the original load achieved a 3000 ft/s velocity with an 87 grain bullet.-Background:Charles Newton...

  • .256 Winchester Magnum
    .256 Winchester Magnum
    The .256 Winchester Magnum was a firearms cartridge developed by Winchester, and was produced by necking-down a .357 Magnum cartridge to .257 diameter. It was designed for shooting small game and varmints. Introduced in 1960, Winchester offered ammo and reloading components into the early 1990s....

  • .256 Newton
    .256 Newton
    The .256 Newton is a high-velocity rimless cartridge and was developed by Charles Newton in 1913 in conjunction with the Western Cartridge Company. It is a 6.5/06 with a different shoulder angle. However, the .256 Newton and the .30-06 are not interchangeable...

  • .25-06 Remington
    .25-06 Remington
    The .25-06 Remington had been a wildcat cartridge for half a century before being standardized by Remington in 1969. It is based on the .30-06 Springfield cartridge necked-down to .257 inch caliber with no other changes...

  • .25 Gibbs
  • .25-20 Winchester
    .25-20 Winchester
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  • .25-35 Winchester
    .25-35 Winchester
    The .25-35 Winchester, or WCF was introduced in 1895 by Winchester for the Winchester Model 1894 lever action rifle...

  • .25 Remington
    .25 Remington
    The .25 Remington is an American rifle cartridge. A rimless, smokeless powder design, this cartridge was considered to be very accurate by period firearm experts and suitable for game up to deer and black bear....

  • .25 WSSM
    .25 WSSM
    The .25 Winchester Super Short Magnum is a third member of the Winchester Super Short Magnum cartridge family created by Winchester and Browning. It is the largest caliber of the WSSM's and is the most capable of handling large game such as deer and wild boar.It is a necked-up version of the .243...

  • .257 Roberts
    .257 Roberts
    The .257 Roberts a medium powered .25 caliber cartridge known affectionately as the Bob. It has been described as the best compromise between the low recoil and flat trajectory of smaller calibers such as the .22 and 6mm, and the strong energy but not the strong recoil of larger popular hunting...

  • .257 Weatherby Magnum
    .257 Weatherby Magnum
    The .257 Weatherby Magnum is a .25 Caliber belted bottlenecked cartridge. It is one of the original standard length magnums developed by shortening the .375 H&H Magnum case to approx....

  • .260 Remington
    .260 Remington
    The .260 Remington cartridge was introduced by Remington in 1997. Many wildcat cartridges based on the .308 Winchester case had existed for years before Remington standardized this round...

  • .264 Winchester Magnum
    .264 Winchester Magnum
    The .264 Winchester Magnum is a belted, bottlenecked rifle cartridge. Apart from the .257 Weatherby Magnum, it is the smallest caliber factory cartridge which uses the standard length Holland & Holland belted magnum case...

  • .270 Weatherby Magnum
    .270 Weatherby Magnum
    The .270 Weatherby Magnum was the first belted magnum based on the .300 H&H Magnum to be developed by Roy Weatherby. It has the characteristic double-radius shoulders and is necked down to accommodate the .277in bullets. Being a proprietary cartridge, the .270 Weatherby has no official SAAMI...

  • .270 Winchester
    .270 Winchester
    The .270 Winchester was developed by Winchester Repeating Arms Company in 1923 and unveiled in 1925 as a chambering for their bolt-action Model 54. The cartridge is based upon the .30-06 Springfield...

  • .270 Winchester Short Magnum
    .270 Winchester Short Magnum
    The 270 Winchester Short Magnum or 270 WSM is a short, unbelted, magnum Cartridge created by necking down the .300 Winchester Short Magnum and fitting it with a .277 caliber bullet...

  • .270 Gibbs
  • .270 Sabi
  • .276 Enfield
    .276 Enfield
    The .276 Enfield was an experimental military rifle cartridge developed in conjunction with the Pattern 1913 Enfield rifle. Development was discontinued by the onset of World War I.-History:...

  • .276 Pedersen
    .276 Pedersen
    The .276 Pedersen round was an experimental 7 mm cartridge developed for the U.S. Army and used in the Pedersen rifle and early versions of what would become the M1 Garand rifle.-Summary:...

  • .280 British
    .280 British
    The .280 British was an experimental intermediate rifle cartridge. It was later designated 7 mm MK1Z, and has also been known as 7 mm NATO, .280/30, .280 Enfield, .280 NATO, 7 mm FN Short, and 7×43mm. It was designed by the British Army in the late 1940s, with subsequent help from...

  • .280 Remington
    .280 Remington
    The .280 Remington, also known as the 7 mm Express Remington, was introduced in 1957 for the Remington model 740, 760, 721 and 725 rifles. The .280 is based on the .30-06 Springfield necked down to accept 7 mm bullets, with the neck moved forward .050in...

  • .280 Ross
    .280 Ross
    The .280 Ross, also known as the .280 Nitro, .280 Rimless Nitro Express Ross and .280 Rimless cartridge, is an approximately 7mm bullet diameter rifle round developed in Canada by F.W...

  • .284 Winchester
    .284 Winchester
    The .284 Winchester is an example of a commercially rather unsuccessful cartridge that has enjoyed a resurgence in interest due to interest from long-range competitive shooters...


.30 caliber - .40 caliber

  • .30 Carbine
    .30 Carbine
    The .30 Carbine is the cartridge used in the M1 Carbine introduced in the 1940s. It is an intermediate round designed to be fired from the M1 carbine's 18-inch barrel.-History:...

  • .30 Newton
    .30 Newton
    The .30 Newton cartridge was designed by Charles Newton for Fred Adolph, a gunsmith, in 1913, and was originally known as the .30 Adolf Express. The Newton Arms Company was the only manufacturer of commercial rifles chambered for this cartridge. It should not be confused with the .30 Belted...

  • .30 RAR
    .30 RAR
    The .30 RAR rifle cartridge was developed to fill a perceived gap in performance on game between the .223 Remington and larger cartridges such as the .308 Winchester and the 6.8 SPC...

  • .30 Remington
    .30 Remington
    The .30 Remington cartridge was created in 1906 by Remington Arms. It was Remington's rimless answer to the popular .30-30 Winchester cartridge. Factory ammunition was produced up until the late 1980s, but now it is a prospect for handloaders...

  • .30 Remington AR
    .30 Remington AR
    The .30 Remington AR cartridge was created in 2008 by Remington Arms. It is a rebated rim cartridge designed to fit Remington's R-15 semiautomatic hunting rifle. It was designed to fit the dimensional constraints of the AR-15 magazine and is based on a modification of the .450 Bushmaster, which in...

  • .30 TC
  • .30-06 Springfield
    .30-06 Springfield
    The .30-06 Springfield cartridge or 7.62×63mm in metric notation, was introduced to the United States Army in 1906 and standardized, and was in use until the 1960s and early 1970s. It replaced the .30-03, 6 mm Lee Navy, and .30 US Army...

  • .30-30 Winchester
  • .30-40 Krag
    .30-40 Krag
    The .30-40 Krag was a cartridge developed in the early 1890s to provide the U.S. armed forces with a smokeless powder cartridge suited for use with modern small-bore repeating rifles to be selected in the 1892 small arm trials...

     (.30 Army)
  • .30-378 Weatherby Magnum
    .30-378 Weatherby Magnum
    The .30-378 Weatherby Magnum is a cartridge introduced by Weatherby in 1996 that uses the same case as the previously existing .378 Weatherby Magnum and .460 Weatherby Magnum, necked down to a 30 caliber bullet. It is offered with bullets between 165 and 200 grains in factory loading, generating...

  • .300 H&H Magnum
    .300 H&H Magnum
    The .300 H&H Magnum Cartridge was introduced by the British company Holland & Holland as the Super-Thirty in June, 1925. The case was belted like the .375 H&H Magnum, and is based on the same case, as also is the .244 H&H Magnum. The belt is for headspace as the cases' shoulders have a narrow...

  • .300 Remington SA Ultra Mag
    .300 Remington SA Ultra Mag
    .300 Remington Short Action Ultra Magnum is a .30 caliber short magnum cartridge that was put on the market shortly after Winchester released its 300 WSM round in 2001.-Performance:...

  • .300 Remington Ultra Magnum
    .300 Remington Ultra Magnum
    The .300 Remington Ultra Magnum, also known as the .300 Ultra Mag or .300 RUM is a 7.62 mm caliber rifle cartridge , 7.62x72mm, or .30 caliber rifle cartridge introduced by Remington Arms in 1999. The .300 Remington Ultra Magnum is one of the largest commercially available .30 caliber magnums...

  • .300 Ruger Compact Magnum
    .300 Ruger Compact Magnum
    The .300 Ruger Compact Magnum is a rimless, short-length rifle cartridge designed for the hunting of Medium-sized North American game. It is designed to closely duplicate the performance of the historic .300 H&H cartridge, yet to be chambered in a short length action rifle...

  • .300 Savage
    .300 Savage
    The .300 Savage cartridge is a rimless, .30 caliber rifle cartridge developed by the Savage Arms Company in 1920. It was designed to replace the less powerful .303 Savage in their popular Savage Model 99 lever-action rifle...

  • .300 Weatherby Magnum
    .300 Weatherby Magnum
    The .300 Weatherby Magnum is a .30 caliber rifle cartridge created by Roy Weatherby in 1944 and produced by Weatherby. It has become the most popular of all the Weatherby cartridges.-Background:...

  • .300 Winchester Magnum
    .300 Winchester Magnum
    The .300 Winchester Magnum is a popular, belted, bottlenecked magnum rifle cartridge that was introduced by Winchester Repeating Arms Company in 1963 as a member of the family of Winchester Magnum cartridges. The .300 Winchester Magnum is a magnum cartridge designed to fit in a standard length...

  • .300 Winchester Short Magnum
  • .303 British
    .303 British
    .303 British, or 7.7x56mmR, is a .311 inch calibre rifle and machine gun cartridge first developed in Britain as a blackpowder round put into service in December 1888 for the Lee-Metford rifle, later adapted to use smokeless powders...

  • .303 Savage
    .303 Savage
    The .303 Savage is a rimmed, .30 caliber rifle cartridge developed by the Savage Arms Company in 1894 which was designed as a short action cartridge for their popular Savage Model 99 hammerless lever action rifle. The cartridge was designed for smokeless gunpowder at a time when black-powder...

  • .307 Winchester
    .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...

  • .308 Marlin Express
    .308 Marlin Express
    The .308 Marlin Express is a cartridge developed in 2007 by Marlin Firearms and Hornady. It is based on the .307 Winchester with a goal to duplicate .308 Winchester performance. The cartridge uses a slightly shorter, rimmed case to function in lever action rifles...

  • .308 Norma Magnum
    .308 Norma Magnum
    The .308 Norma Magnum cartridge was created by Nils Kvale at Norma, Sweden. Like the larger .358 Norma Magnum it is based on the .300 H&H Magnum. The length of the case is the longest that would fit in a standard Mauser action. While it appeared to have a bright future initially, it was soon...

  • .308 Winchester
    .308 Winchester
    The .308 Winchester is a rifle cartridge and is the commercial cartridge upon which the military 7.62x51mm NATO centerfire cartridge is based. The .308 Winchester was introduced in 1952, two years prior to the NATO adoption of the 7.62x51mm NATO T65...

  • .32 Remington
    .32 Remington
    The .32 Remington is an American rifle cartridge. A rimless, smokeless powder design, this cartridge was once considered to be suitable for game larger than deer and black bear...

  • .32 Winchester Self-Loading
    .32 Winchester Self-Loading
    The .32 Winchester Self-Loading is an American rifle cartridge.Winchester introduced the .32SL and .35SL cartridges in the Winchester '05 self-loading rifle, a centerfire version of the Winchester '03...

  • .32 Winchester Special
    .32 Winchester Special
    The .32 Winchester Special is a rimmed cartridge created in October 1901 for use in the Winchester Model 94 lever-action rifle. It is similar in name but unrelated to the .32-20 Winchester cartridge ....

  • .32-20 Winchester
    .32-20 Winchester
    The .32-20 Winchester, also known as the .32 WCF , was the first small-game lever-action cartridge thatWinchester produced. It was initially introduced as a blackpowder cartridge in 1882 for small-game, varmint hunting, and deer. Colt produced a single-action pistol chambered for this cartridge a...

     (.32 WCF, .32-20 Marlin, .32 Colt Lightning)
  • .32-40 Ballard
    .32-40 Ballard
    The .32-40 Ballard is an American rifle cartridge.Introduced in 1884, the .32-40 was developed as a black powder match-grade round for the Ballard single-shot Union Hill No. 8 and 9 target rifles...

  • .32-40 Winchester
  • .325 WSM
    .325 WSM
    .325 Winchester Short Magnum is an 8 mm caliber rebated rim bottlenecked centerfire short magnum cartridge that was introduced in 2005 by Winchester...

     (Winchester Short Magnum
    Winchester Short Magnum
    Winchester Short Magnum, or WSM, refers to a family of rebated rim bottlenecked centerfire short magnum cartridges developed in the early 2000s by the U.S. Repeating Arms Company, the maker of Winchester rifles and one of the oldest firearms manufacturers in the United States...

    )
  • .33 Winchester
    .33 Winchester
    The .33 Winchester Center Fire is an American centerfire rifle cartridge.Introduced by Winchester for the Model 86 lever rifle , it survived until the Model 86 was dropped in 1936...

     (.33 WCF)
  • .33-40 Pope
    .33-40 Pope
    The .33-40 Pope is a wildcat cartridge designed around 1900 by Harry Pope, a noted rifleman. The cartridge is a necked up .32-40 Ballard. It was Pope's favorite wildcat, and was often used with great success by him....

  • .333 Jeffery
    .333 Jeffery
    The .333 Jeffery also known as the .333 Jeffery Rimless Nitro Express or as the .333 Rimless Nitro Express is a rimless bottlenecked cartridge. It was developed by the W.J...

  • .333 Jeffery Flanged
    .333 Jeffery Flanged
    The .333 Jeffery Flanged or .333 Flanged Nitro Express is a .333 caliber rimmed, bottlenecked rifle cartridge. It was developed by the W.J. Jeffery & Co. in 1908 as a rimmed version of the .333 Jeffery and is intended for double rifles....

  • .338 Federal
    .338 Federal
    The .338 Federal is a rifle cartridge based on the .308 Winchester case necked up to .33 caliber. It was created by Federal Cartridge and Sako in 2006 and intended as a big game cartridge with reasonable recoil for lightweight rifles.-Comparison:...

  • .338 Lapua Magnum
  • .338 Marlin express
    .338 Marlin express
    The .338 Marlin Express is a new cartridge developed by Marlin Firearms and Hornady. It is based on the .376 Steyr with a goal to duplicate the venerable .30-06 Springfield's performance in a cartridge compatible with lever-action firearms. The cartridge uses a slightly shorter, rimmed case to...

  • .338 Remington Ultra Magnum
    .338 Remington Ultra Magnum
    The .338 Remington Ultra Magnum is a .338 caliber rifle cartridge introduced by Remington Arms in 2002. It is a beltless, rebated rim cartridge based on the .300 Remington Ultra Magnum case shortened .090" loaded with a .338 caliber bullet...

  • .338 Ruger Compact Magnum
  • .338 Sabi
  • .338 Winchester Magnum
    .338 Winchester Magnum
    The .338 Winchester Magnum is a .33 caliber belted rimless bottlenecked cartridge introduced in 1958 by Winchester Repeating Arms Company|Winchester. It is based on the blown out, shortened .375 H&H Magnum. The .33 is the caliber at which medium bore cartridges are considered to begin...

  • .338-06 A-Square
  • .338-06 Ackley Improved
  • .338-378 Weatherby Magnum
    .338-378 Weatherby Magnum
    The .338-378 Weatherby Magnum started out as the wildcat cartridge, .338-378 Keith-Thomson Magnum during the early 1960s. Keith and Thomson are Elmer Keith and R.W. "Bob" Thomson. The 338-378 Keith-Thomson Magnum is slightly shorter than the .338-378 Weatherby Magnum. However this is only a neck...

  • .340 Weatherby Magnum
    .340 Weatherby Magnum
    The .340 Weatherby Magnum rifle cartridge was introduced in 1963 by creator Roy Weatherby in response to the .338 Winchester Magnum. The .340 Weatherby Magnum uses the same .338 in. diameter bullets as the .338 Winchester Magnum but it does so at greater velocity than its Winchester competition...

  • .348 Winchester
    .348 Winchester
    The .348 Winchester is an American rifle cartridge. It was introduced in 1936, and developed for the Winchester Model 71 lever rifle. The .348 was one of the most powerful rimmed rounds ever used in a lever rifle.-Performance:...

  • .35 Newton
    .35 Newton
    The .35 Newton is a catridge introduced in 1915 by the Newton Rifle Co.-Details:The .35 newton was listed in the Newton Rifle Co. catalog in 1915, which presumably is the year it was introduced. It is the .30 Newton case necked-up to the 35-caliber. The Western Cartridge Co...

  • .35 Remington
    .35 Remington
    The .35 Remington is the only remaining cartridge from Remington's lineup of medium power rimless cartridges still in commercial production. Introduced in 1906, it was originally chambered for the Remington Model 8 semi-automatic rifle in 1908.-History:...

  • .35 Whelen
    .35 Whelen
    The .35 Whelen is a powerful medium-bore rifle cartridge that does not require a magnum action or a magnum bolt-face. The parent of this cartridge is the .30-06 Springfield, which is necked-up to accept a bullet diameter of...

  • .35 Whelen Improved
  • .35 Winchester
    .35 Winchester
    The .35 Winchester cartridge was created in 1903 by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company for use in the Winchester Model 1895 lever action rifle, and was also available in the bolt action Remington-Lee, or the Model E-10 Factory Sporter Ross Rifle in Canada...

  • .35 Winchester Self-Loading
    .35 Winchester Self-Loading
    The .35 Winchester Self-Loading is an American rifle cartridge.Winchester introduced the .32SL and .35SL in the Winchester '05 self-loading rifle as a centerfire cartridge version of the Winchester '03...

  • .350 Remington Magnum
    .350 Remington Magnum
    The .350 Remington Magnum was introduced in 1965 by Remington Arms Company for the Model 600 rifle. It was later offered in the Model 660 and Model 700 rifles but was discontinued as a regular factory chambering in 1974 after a poor sales record...

  • .351 Winchester Self-Loading
    .351 Winchester Self-Loading
    The .351 Winchester Self-Loading is an American rifle cartridge.Winchester introduced the .351SL in the Winchester Model 1907 self-loading rifle as a replacement for the Winchester Model 1905 and the .35SL...

  • .356 Winchester
    .356 Winchester
    The .356 Winchester is a semi-rimmed, bottle necked, centerfire rifle cartridge which was intended for use in lever action rifles. It was developed concurrently with the .307 Winchester which acted as the parent cartridge...

  • .358 Norma Magnum
    .358 Norma Magnum
    The .358 Norma Magnum is a bolt action rifle cartridge introduced in 1959 by Swedish company, Norma. It is closely related to the smaller .308 Norma Magnum. Both calibers share the same dimensions of the case head as the .300 H&H Magnum. The length of the case is the longest possible that would...

  • .358 Winchester
    .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 8.8x51mm. -History:...

  • .375 H&H Magnum
    .375 H&H Magnum
    The .375 Holland & Holland Magnum is a powerful rifle round and one of the best-known and most popular medium-bore cartridges in the world. The .375 H&H was only the second cartridge ever to feature a belt, now common among magnum rounds. A popular misconception is that the belt is for headspace,...

  • .375 Remington Ultra Magnum
    .375 Remington Ultra Magnum
    The .375 Remington Ultra Magnum, also known as the .375 RUM is a .375 rifle cartridge introduced by Remington Arms in 2002. It is a beltless, rebated rim cartridge created by necking up the .300 Remington Ultra Magnum case to .375 caliber with no other changes. The .375 Remington Ultra Magnum is...

  • .375 Ruger
    .375 Ruger
    The .375 Ruger is a rimless, standard-length rifle cartridge designed for the hunting of large dangerous game. It is designed to provide an increase in performance over the .375 H&H cartridge, yet to be chambered in a standard length action rifle...

  • .375 Weatherby Magnum
    .375 Weatherby Magnum
    The .375 Weatherby Magnum is a .37 caliber rifle cartridge. The cartridge is a blown out, improved and provided with the Weatherby double radius shoulder – given the Weatherby treatment – version of the .375 H&H Magnum...

  • .375 Whelen (.375-06)
  • .375 Winchester
    .375 Winchester
    The .375 Winchester is a modernized version of the .38-55 Winchester, a black powder cartridge from the 1880s. .375 Winchester was introduced in 1978 along with the Winchester Model 94 “Big Bore” lever action rifle....

  • .376 Steyr
    .376 Steyr
    The .376 Steyr cartridge is a rifle cartridge jointly developed by Hornady and Steyr for use in the Steyr Scout rifle.Introduced in 1999, it is based on the 9.3 x 64 Brenneke case, necked up to accept a diameter bullet...

  • .378 Weatherby Magnum
    .378 Weatherby Magnum
    The .378 Weatherby Magnum was designed by Roy Weatherby in 1953. It was an original belted magnum design with no parent case, inspired by the .416 Rigby and headspacing of the belted .375 H&H Magnum. The 215 magnum rifle primer was developed by Federal specifically for this round. The cartridge can...

  • .38 Smith&Wesson
  • .38-40 Winchester
    .38-40 Winchester
    The .38-40 Winchester is actually a .40 caliber cartridge shooting .401 caliber bullets. The cartridge that was introduced by Winchester in 1874 and is derived from their .44-40 Winchester. This cartridge was introduced for rifles, but in its reintroduction for Cowboy Action Shooting it has seen...

  • .38-55 Winchester
    .38-55 Winchester
    The .38-55 Winchester cartridge is named for its approximately .38 caliber bullet and was introduced in 1876 by Ballard which belonged to Marlin Firearms from 1875 on for various single-shot target rifles and in their 1893 lever action. It was later used by Winchester for its Model 1894...

  • .38-56 Winchester-Marlin

.40 caliber - .50 caliber

  • .40-60 Remington
  • .40-65 Peters
  • .400 H&H Magnum
    .400 H&H Magnum
    The .400 H&H Magnum also known as the .400 Holland & Holland Belted Rimless or the .400 Holland and Holland Magnum is a .411 caliber belted rimless bottlenecked cartridge introduced in 2003 by Holland & Holland together with the .465 H&H Magnum in 2003...

  • .400 Jeffery Nitro Express
    .400 Jeffery Nitro Express
    The .400 Jeffery Nitro Express or .450/400 3 inch Nitro Express is a .411 caliber rimmed, bottlenecked cartridge designed by Jeffery in 1902.-General Information:The .400 Jeffery Nitro Express is based on the .450/400 3¼ inch case...

  • .400 Tembo
  • .401 Winchester Self-Loading
    .401 Winchester Self-Loading
    The .401 Winchester Self-Loading is an American rifle cartridge.Winchester introduced the .401SL in the Winchester '10 self-loading rifle as a supplement to the Winchester '07 and the .351SL in their offering of hi-power, self-loading rifles...

  • .404 Jeffery
    .404 Jeffery
    The .404 Jeffery is a large caliber, rimless cartridge designed for large, dangerous game, such as the big five of Africa. Other names for this cartridge include .404 Jeffery Rimless, .404 Rimless Nitro Express, and 10.75 × 73 mm...

     (10.75 x 73)
  • .405 Winchester
    .405 Winchester
    The .405 Winchester is a centerfire rifle cartridge introduced in 1904 for the Winchester 1895 lever-action rifle. It was the most powerful lever-action cartridge available until the .444 Marlin was introduced in 1964, and was highly regarded by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt during his safari...

  • .408 CheyTac
  • .416 Barrett
    .416 Barrett
    The .416 Barrett or 10.6x83mm centerfire rifle cartridge is a proprietary bottlenecked centrefire rifle cartridge designed in 2005. It is an alternative to the .50 BMG in long-range high-caliber rifles. It was designed in response to a request for a medium/heavy rifle/cartridge combination that was...

  • .416 Remington Magnum
    .416 Remington Magnum
    The .416 Remington Magnum is a .416 caliber of a belted bottle-necked design. The cartridge was intended as a dangerous game hunting cartridge and released to the public in 1989. The cartridge uses the case of the 8 mm Remington Magnum as a parent cartridge. When the cartridge was released in...

  • .416 Rigby
    .416 Rigby
    The .416 Rigby or 10.6x74mm was designed in 1911 by John Rigby & Company of London, England as a dangerous game cartridge and is the first one to use a bullet with a diameter of .416"...

  • .416 Ruger
    .416 Ruger
    The .416 Ruger is .41 caliber , a beltless, rimless, bottlenecked cartridge designed as a joint venture by Hornady and Ruger in 2008. The cartridge is based on the .375 Ruger case which was necked up to accept a bullet...

  • .416 Weatherby Magnum
    .416 Weatherby Magnum
    The .416 Weatherby Magnum is a belted, bottlenecked cartridge designed by Ed Weatherby and launched commercially in 1989. It is a dangerous game cartridge intended for the hunting of heavy dangerous game such as elephant and African Cape buffalo. It is considered the most powerful commercial .416...

  • .43 Mauser
    11x60mm Mauser
    The 11mm Mauser was a blackpowder cartridge developed for the Mauser Model 1871 rifle, and used later in the 71/84 variant. It is no longer in production, but is available from custom loaders, and dies exist to handload it. It is also known as .43 Mauser....

  • .44-40 Winchester
    .44-40 Winchester
    The .44-40 Winchester, also known as the .44 Winchester, the .44 WCF , and the .44 Largo was introduced in 1873 by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. It was the first centerfire metallic cartridge offered by Winchester,and was brought out as the standard chambering for the new Winchester Model...

  • .444 Marlin
    .444 Marlin
    The .444 Marlin is a rifle cartridge designed in 1964 by Marlin Firearms and Remington Arms. It was designed to fill in a gap for the older .45-70 at a time when that cartridge was not currently available in any lever action, making it the largest at the time available lever-action cartridge...

  • .45-70 Government
  • .45-75 Winchester
  • .45-90 Sharps
    .45-90 Sharps
    The .45-90 Sharps cartridge is a black powder round introduced in 1877 by the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company. Also known as the .45 2 4/10, the cartridge was developed for hunting and long range target shooting....

  • .450/400 Nitro Express
    .450/400 Nitro Express
    The .450/400 Nitro Express are a family of .405 - .411 caliber, rimmed, bottlenecked cases which was originally intended for black powder single shot and double rifles. There were multiple variants of each cartridge as variations existed between each manufacturer for each cartridge length...

  • .450 Alaskan
  • .450 Bushmaster
    .450 Bushmaster
    The .450 Bushmaster is a rifle cartridge developed by Tim LeGendre of LeMag Firearms LLC, and licensed to Bushmaster Firearms International for production and distribution. LeGendre still retains ownership of the concept...

  • .450 Marlin
    .450 Marlin
    The .450 Marlin is a firearms cartridge designed as a modernized equivalent to the venerable .45-70 lever-action cartridge. It was designed by a joint team of Marlin and Hornady engineers headed by Hornady's Mitch Mittelstaedt, and was released in 2000, with cartridges manufactured by Hornady and...

  • .450 Nitro Express
    .450 Nitro Express
    .450 Nitro Express designed for the purpose of hunting large game such as elephant. This cartridge is used almost exclusively in single shot and double express rifles for hunting at the Tropics or hot climates in general and is a cartridge associated with the Golden Age of African safaris and...

  • .450 Rigby
    .450 Rigby
    The .450 Rigby Magnum Rimless better known simply as the .450 Rigby is a .45 caliber rimless, bottlenecked cartridge intended for the hunting of heavy dangerous game. The cartridge is based on the .416 Rigby necked up to accept a bullet. The cartridge is intended for use in magazine rifles...

  • .458x2 American
    .458x2 American
    The .458×2-inch American is a straight, belted, .458 caliber big bore cartridge designed by Frank Barnes. It is based on the .458 Winchester Magnum shortened to .-General Information:...

  • .458 Express
    .458 Express
    The .458 Express is a .458 diameter cartridge developed in South Africa. It is also referred to as the .458 3-inch.Other .458 cartridges are the very popular .458 Lott, .458 Winchester Magnum and 450 Watts...

  • .458 Lott
    .458 Lott
    The .458 Lott is a .458 caliber belted hunting cartridge designed as a replacement for the less powerful .458 Winchester Magnum. It is based on the full length .375 H&H Magnum blown out and shortened to...

  • .458 Sabi
  • .458 SOCOM
    .458 SOCOM
    The .458 SOCOM is a relatively large round designed for a specialized upper receiver that can be mounted on any AR-15 pattern rifle. The round offers a muzzle velocity and .- History:...

  • .458 Winchester Magnum
    .458 Winchester Magnum
    The .458 Winchester Magnum is a belted, straight-taper cased, dangerous game rifle cartridge. It was introduced commercially in 1956 by Winchester and first chambered in the Winchester Model 70 African rifle. It was designed to compete against the .450 Nitro Express and the .470 Nitro Express...

  • .460 Weatherby Magnum
    .460 Weatherby Magnum
    The .460 Weatherby Magnum is a belted, bottlenecked rifle cartridge, developed by Roy Weatherby in 1957. The cartridge is based on the .378 Weatherby Magnum necked up to accept the bullet. The original .378 Weatherby Magnum parent case was inspired by the .416 Rigby...

  • .460 Steyr
  • .465 H&H Magnum
    .465 H&H Magnum
    The .465 Holland & Holland Magnum also known as the .465 Holland & Holland Belted Rimless or more simply as the .465 H&H Magnum, is a modern big bore firearms cartridge introduced by Holland & Holland in 2003 together with the .400 H&H Magnum. The .465 H&H Magnum is a .468 caliber, belted, rimless...

  • .470 Nitro Express
    .470 Nitro Express
    The .470 Nitro Express is a cartridge developed in England for very large or dangerous game hunting. This cartridge is used almost exclusively in single shot and double express rifles for hunting in the tropics or hot climate...

  • .476 Nitro Express
    .476 Nitro Express
    The .476 Nitro Express is a British rifle cartridge.Introduced by Westley Richards around 1907, it follows on the heels of the .470, .475, and .475 No. 2 Nitro Express rounds. While it was available in single and double rifles, it was less popular than other comparable rounds...


.50 caliber and larger

  • .50 Alaskan
    .50 Alaskan
    The .50 Alaskan is a wildcat cartridge developed by Harold Johnson and Harold Fuller of the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska in the 1950s. Johnson based the cartridge on the .348 Winchester in order to create a rifle capable of handling the large bears in Alaska....

  • .50 Beowulf
    .50 Beowulf
    The .50 Beowulf [12.7×42 mm Rb] is a rifle cartridge developed by Alexander Arms for use in a modified AR-15 rifle. The cartridge utilizes a rebated rim, sized to match the rim of the 7.62×39mm and 6.5 mm Grendel rounds...

  • .50 BMG
    .50 BMG
    The .50 Browning Machine Gun or 12.7×99mm NATO is a cartridge developed for the Browning .50 caliber machine gun in the late 1910s. Entering service officially in 1921, the round is based on a greatly scaled-up .30-06 cartridge...

  • .50 Peacekeeper
    .50 Peacekeeper
    The .50 Peacekeeper is a wildcat rifle cartridge that was designed by J.D. Jones of SSK Industries. The .50 Peacekeeper uses a .460 Weatherby Magnum case that has been re-sized to accept a 50 caliber bullet....

  • .50-70 Government
    .50-70 Government
    The .50-70 Government cartridge was a black powder round adopted in 1866 for the Springfield Model 1866 Trapdoor Rifle. The cartridge was developed after the unsatisfactory results of the .58 rimfire cartridge for the Springfield Model 1865 Trapdoor Rifle....

  • .50-90 Sharps
    .50-90 Sharps
    The .50-90 Sharps rifle cartridge is a black powder cartridge that was introduced by Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company in 1872 as a buffalo hunting round...

  • .50-110 Winchester
    .50-110 Winchester
    The .50-110 Winchester is an obsolete American black powder centerfire rifle cartridge....

  • .50-140 Sharps
    .50-140 Sharps
    The .50-140 Sharps rifle cartridge is a black powder cartridge that was introduced in 1884 as a big game hunting round. It is believed to have been introduced for the Sharps-Borchardt Model 1878 rifle. The cartridge is very similar to the .500 Nitro Express....

  • .500 Black Powder Express
    .500 Black Powder Express
    The .500 BPE or Black Powder Express was first used in a Purdey Double Express rifle in the 1860s. It is very similar to the .50-140 Sharps cartridge....

  • .500 Jeffery
    .500 Jeffery
    The .500 Jeffery is a caliber of rifles that first appeared around 1920, and was originally introduced by the August Schuler Company, a German firm, under the European designation "12,7x70 mm Schuler" or ".500 Schuler"...

  • .500 Nitro Express 3"
  • .500 Nitro Express for black powder 3"
  • .500 No. 2 Express
    .500 No. 2 Express
    The .500 No. 2 Express is a British centerfire fire rifle cartridge....

  • .500/450 Nitro Express
    .500/450 Nitro Express
    Based on the old blackpowder .500/450, the .500/450 Magnum Nitro Express was introduced by Holland & Holland for their single shot and double rifles during the late 1890s. It fires a projectile at over to generate in excess of of muzzle energy....

  • .500/465 Nitro Express
  • .505 Gibbs
  • .505 Jeffery
  • .510 DTC Europ
    .510 DTC Europ
    The .510 DTC EUROP is a French rifle cartridge developed by Eric Danis in order to comply with firearms legislation in Europe which regulates .50 BMG rifles...

  • .510 Fat Mac
  • .510 Whisper
    .510 Whisper
    The .510 Whisper was developed by SSK Industries to shoot .510 bullets in a suppressed rifle. The case is based on the .338 Lapua Magnum cut down to . Neck wall thickness is reduced to and a small shoulder is cut into the body for head spacing...

  • .550 Magnum
  • .550 Nitro Express
  • .577 Nitro Express
    .577 Nitro Express
    The .577 Nitro Express is a rimmed cartridge in the Nitro Express series of big-game hunting ammunition. It is also known as the .577 Nitro Express 3" and there is a variant called the .577 Nitro Express 2.75"...

  • .577 Snider
    .577 Snider
    The .577 Snider cartridge was a British black powder metallic cartridge, which fired a .577" 480gr lead projectile, primarily used in the Snider-Enfield rifle....

  • .577 Tyrannosaur
    .577 Tyrannosaur
    The .577 Tyrannosaur or .577 T-rex is a type of cartridge developed by A-Square in 1993 for big game hunting in Africa. The .577 contains a diameter Monolithic Solid Projectile which when fired moves at producing of muzzle energy. The production model from A-square is based on their Hannibal...

     (.577 T-Rex)
  • .577/450 Martini-Henry
    .577/450 Martini-Henry
    The .577/450 Martini-Henry was a black powder, centerfire round used by the British and British Empire militaries prior to the adoption of the .303 calibre cartridge used in the Lee-Metford, Martini-Enfield, and Lee-Enfield series of rifles alongside the Nepalese Bira gun...

  • .577/.500 Magnum Nitro Express
    .577/.500 Magnum Nitro Express
    The .577/.500 Magnum Nitro Express is a British centerfire fire rifle cartridge.Designed as a black powder round in the mid-1880s, it was based on the .577 Nitro Express, necked down to .500" , and was later offered in a smokeless version. While it resembles the .500 No...

  • .585 Nyati
    .585 Nyati
    The .585 Nyati is a shoulder-fired rifle cartridge. Nyati means Cape Buffalo in many African languages such as Swahili. The .585 Nyati can generate of muzzle energy. This places it at or near the top of the list for most powerful cartridges that can be chambered in a rifle that can still be...

  • .600 Nitro Express
    .600 Nitro Express
    The .600 Nitro Express is a round in the Nitro Express series which was introduced in 1903. It is the second largest calibre in the Nitro Express line, exceeded only by Holland & Holland's .700 Nitro Express round.-Overview:...

  • .600 Overkill
    .600 Overkill
    The .600 Overkill cartridge is a hunting cartridge designed to fit the CZ-550 action, by American Hunting Rifles.-Design:The .600 Overkill was designed by Robert Garnick of Las Vegas, Nevada, USA...

  • .600/577 REWA
  • .700 AHR
  • .700 Nitro Express
    .700 Nitro Express
    The .700 Nitro Express is a big game rifle cartridge made by Holland & Holland, London, England. It was developed in 1988 by Jim Bell and William Feldstein and built by H&H. Feldstein had tried unsuccessfully to get H&H to build a .600 Nitro Express for him, but they had already ceased production...

  • .950 JDJ
    .950 JDJ
    The .950 JDJ is a large caliber rifle cartridge developed by J. D. Jones of SSK Industries. Jones is also the noted developer of many other well-known cartridges, such as the Whisper family.-Cartridge:...




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.50 BMG
The .50 Browning Machine Gun or 12.7×99mm NATO is a cartridge developed for the Browning .50 caliber machine gun in the late 1910s. Entering service officially in 1921, the round is based on a greatly scaled-up .30-06 cartridge...

, .300 Win Mag
.300 Winchester Magnum
The .300 Winchester Magnum is a popular, belted, bottlenecked magnum rifle cartridge that was introduced by Winchester Repeating Arms Company in 1963 as a member of the family of Winchester Magnum cartridges. The .300 Winchester Magnum is a magnum cartridge designed to fit in a standard length...

, .308 Winchester
.308 Winchester
The .308 Winchester is a rifle cartridge and is the commercial cartridge upon which the military 7.62x51mm NATO centerfire cartridge is based. The .308 Winchester was introduced in 1952, two years prior to the NATO adoption of the 7.62x51mm NATO T65...

, 7.62 Soviet, 5.56 NATO, .22LR

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.50 BMG
The .50 Browning Machine Gun or 12.7×99mm NATO is a cartridge developed for the Browning .50 caliber machine gun in the late 1910s. Entering service officially in 1921, the round is based on a greatly scaled-up .30-06 cartridge...


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.300 Winchester Magnum
The .300 Winchester Magnum is a popular, belted, bottlenecked magnum rifle cartridge that was introduced by Winchester Repeating Arms Company in 1963 as a member of the family of Winchester Magnum cartridges. The .300 Winchester Magnum is a magnum cartridge designed to fit in a standard length...


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.308 Winchester
The .308 Winchester is a rifle cartridge and is the commercial cartridge upon which the military 7.62x51mm NATO centerfire cartridge is based. The .308 Winchester was introduced in 1952, two years prior to the NATO adoption of the 7.62x51mm NATO T65...


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7.62×39mm
The 7.62×39mm round is a rifle cartridge of Soviet origin that was designed during World War II. It was first used in the RPD machine gun. Due to the worldwide proliferation of the SKS and AK-47 pattern rifles, the cartridge is utilized by both militaries and civilians alike.The 7.62×39mm...


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.22 Long Rifle
The .22 Long Rifle rimfire cartridge is a long established variety of ammunition, and in terms of units sold is still by far the most common in the world today. The cartridge is often referred to simply as .22 LR and various rifles, pistols, revolvers, and even some smoothbore shotguns have...



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smaller than 6mm

  • 4.6x30mm
  • 4.85mm SAA (.191)
  • 4.92x34mm
  • 5.45x39mm
    5.45x39mm
    The Soviet 5.45×39mm cartridge is a rimless bottlenecked rifle cartridge. It was introduced into service in 1974 for use with the new AK-74 assault rifle. It gradually supplemented then largely replaced the 7.62x39mm round in service....

  • 5.56x30mm
  • 5.56x45mm NATO
    5.56x45mm NATO
    5.56×45mm NATO is a rifle cartridge developed in the United States and originally chambered in the M16 rifle. Under STANAG 4172, it is a standard cartridge for NATO forces as well as many non-NATO countries. It is derived from, but not identical to, the .223 Remington cartridge...

  • 5.6x50mm Magnum
    5.6x50mm Magnum
    The 5.6×50mm Magnum cartridge was developed in Germany for use as a legal hunting round alongside the 5.6×50mmR. The two cartridges are dimensionally and ballistically identical in all respects, except that the Magnum cartridge is not rimmed....

  • 5.6 x 52R (.22 Savage Hi-Power)
  • 5.6x57mm
    5.6x57mm
    The 5.6x57mm cartridge was created by RWS in Germany for hunting small deer such as roe deer, and for chamois. The calibre has a significant following among European sportsmen, and most European mass production riflemakers chamber several models of rifle for this cartridge...

  • 5.6x57Rmm
  • 5.6 x 61 SE (5.6 x 61 Vom Hofe Super Express)
  • 5.7x28mm
  • 5.8x42mm DBP87

6mm - 7mm

  • 6 x 35 mm
  • 6mmAR
    6mmAR
    The 6mmAR is a centerfire wildcat cartridge designed by Robert Whitley for long-range performance in an AR-15 rifle. The cartridge uses a 6.5 Grendel case that has been necked-down to accept a 6 mm bullet....

  • 6 mm BR Remington
  • 6 mm Musgrave
    6 mm Musgrave
    The 6 mm Musgrave was the brain child of Ben Musgrave and introduced by Musgrave Rifles in 1955 and can be described as a classic Africa cartridge. It is based on necking down the .303 British with the original intent of it being a Springbok calibre for hunting on open plains in South Africa's...

  • 6 mm PPC
    6 mm PPC
    The 6 mm PPC , or 6 PPC as it is more often called, is a centerfire rifle cartridge used almost exclusively for benchrest shooting. At distances out to 300 yards, it is one of the most accurate cartridges available...

  • 6 mm Remington
    6 mm Remington
    The 6mm Remington was introduced by Remington Arms Company in 1955 as the .244 Remington. It is based on necking down the .257 Roberts. Originally intended as a Varmint and predator cartridge, the .244 was never factory loaded with bullets over 90 grains. Rifles marked .244 Remington have a 1 in ...

     (.244 Remington
    6 mm Remington
    The 6mm Remington was introduced by Remington Arms Company in 1955 as the .244 Remington. It is based on necking down the .257 Roberts. Originally intended as a Varmint and predator cartridge, the .244 was never factory loaded with bullets over 90 grains. Rifles marked .244 Remington have a 1 in ...

    )
  • 6.5 Creedmoor
  • 6.5 mm Grendel
  • 6.5 mm Remington Magnum
    6.5 mm Remington Magnum
    The 6.5mm Remington Magnum is a .264 caliber belted bottlenecked cartridge introduced in 1966. The cartridge is based on a necked down .350 Remington Magnum which on turn is based on a shortened, necked down, blown out .375 H&H Magnum case...

  • 6.5-06 A-Square
    6.5-06 A-Square
    The 6.5-06 A-Square is a centerfire rifle cartridge that originated as a wildcat, based on the popular .30-06 Springfield. A-Square standardized the dimensions of the cartridge and submitted them to SAAMI in 1997.-Design:...

  • 6.5-284 Norma
    6.5-284 Norma
    The 6.5-284 Norma originated as a wildcat cartridge based on the .284 Winchester cartridge necked down to 6.5 mm.- History :The .284 Winchester was created around 1963, but never really caught on, except as a parent case for the wildcat 6.5mm-284. The 6.5 caliber allowed for the use of long,...

  • 6.5x42mm Multi-Purpose Cartride (SSK Industries)
  • 6.5x47mm Lapua
    6.5x47mm Lapua
    6.5x47mm Lapua is a rifle cartridge that was developed specifically for 300m competition by ammunition maker Nammo Lapua and the Swiss rifle manufacturer Grünig & Elmiger AG in 2005.-Features:The cartridge has many special features including: :...

  • 6.5x50mm Arisaka
  • 6.5x52mm Mannlicher-Carcano
  • 6.5 x 52R
  • 6.5x53mmR Mannlicher
  • 6.5x54mm Mannlicher-Schoenauer
  • 6.5x55mm (Also 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser, 6.5 x 55 Mauser)
  • 6.5x57mm Mauser
  • 6.5x68mm
    6.5x68mm
    The 6.5x68mm rimless bottlenecked rifle cartridge and its sister cartridge the 8x68mm S were developed in the 1930s by Mr...

     (also known as the 6.5 x 68 RWS, 6.5 x 68 Schüler or the 6.5 x 68 Von Hofe Express)
  • 6.8 mm Remington SPC
    6.8 mm Remington SPC
    The 6.8 mm Remington SPC is a rifle cartridge that was developed with collaboration from individual members of United States Special Operations Command . Based upon the .30 Remington cartridge, it is midway between the 5.56×45mm NATO and 7.62×51mm NATO in bore diameter and velocity...


7mm - 8mm

  • 7 mm BR Remington
  • 7 mm Dakota
  • 7 mm Express Remington (a.k.a. .280 Remington
    .280 Remington
    The .280 Remington, also known as the 7 mm Express Remington, was introduced in 1957 for the Remington model 740, 760, 721 and 725 rifles. The .280 is based on the .30-06 Springfield necked down to accept 7 mm bullets, with the neck moved forward .050in...

    )
  • 7 mm Gibbs
  • 7 mm Remington Magnum
    7 mm Remington Magnum
    The 7mm Remington Magnum rifle cartridge was introduced as a commercially available round in 1962, along with the new Remington Model 700 bolt action rifle. It is a member of the belted magnum family that is directly derived from the venerable .375 H&H Magnum...

  • 7 mm RSAUM (Remington Short-Action Ultra Mag)
  • 7 mm Remington Ultra Magnum
    7 mm Remington Ultra Magnum
    The 7mm Remington Ultra Magnum or 7mm RUM is a 7mm rifle cartridge introduced by Remington Arms in 2001.-Overview:The 7mm RUM was created using the .404 Jeffery case which was also used to develop the .375 RUM .300 RUM, and .338 RUM...

  • 7 mm STE (Shooting Times Easterner)
  • 7 mm STW
    7 mm STW
    The 7mm Shooting Times Westerner, sometimes refereed to as the 7mm STW began as a wildcat rifle cartridge developed by Layne Simpson in 1979. It is an 8 mm Remington Magnum case that has been "necked down" by 1 mm to accept 7 mm bullets...

     (Shooting Times Westerner)
  • 7 mm TCU (Thompson/Center Ugalde)
  • 7 mm Weatherby Magnum
    7 mm Weatherby Magnum
    The 7 mm Weatherby Magnum is a powerful 7 mm rifle cartridge offered by the Weatherby firearms company in their Mark V rifles. The cartridge was one of the first cartridges offered by the Weatherby company....

  • 7 mm WSM
    7 mm WSM
    The 7mm Winchester Short Magnum is a centrefire cartridge developed in partnership with Browning Arms Company and Winchester ammunition, making its debut and introduced to the shooting public in 2001.-Specifications:...

     (Winchester Short Magnum
    Winchester Short Magnum
    Winchester Short Magnum, or WSM, refers to a family of rebated rim bottlenecked centerfire short magnum cartridges developed in the early 2000s by the U.S. Repeating Arms Company, the maker of Winchester rifles and one of the oldest firearms manufacturers in the United States...

    )
  • 7 mm-08 Remington
    7 mm-08 Remington
    The 7mm-08 Remington is a rifle cartridge that is almost a direct copy of a wildcat cartridge developed around 1958 known as the 7mm/308. As these names would suggest, it is the .308 Winchester case necked down to accept 7 mm bullets with a small increase in case length...

  • 7 mm-300 Weatherby Magnum
  • 7-30 Waters
    7-30 Waters
    The 7-30 Waters cartridge is a wildcat cartridge developed by author Ken Waters in 1976 to give better performance to lever action rifle shooters than the parent .30-30 Winchester cartridge, by providing a higher velocity and flatter trajectory with a smaller, lighter bullet...

  • 7.2 SLEC (7.2 SPECIAL LAW ENFORCEMENT CARTRIDGE)
  • 7.21 Firebird
  • 7.21 Tomahawk
  • 7.44mm
  • 7x33mm Sako
    7x33mm Sako
    The 7x33mm Sako cartridge was created in Finland in 1942 as a small game cartridge for animals such as the Capercaillie and Black Grouse. It is based on a 9x19mm Parabellum case that has been lengthened and necked down to accept a 7.21mm bullet. The cartridge overall length is 44.30mm with a case...

  • 7x54mm
    7x54mm
    -7x54 Finnish:7x54 Finnish is a rare half-wildcat caliber. It was loaded by two factories, Sako and Lapua in Finland. It was by Lapua to be used in worn 6.5x55SE or Arisaka rifles. It's simply 6.5x55SE with 7mm bullet. It may be loaded with modified 6.5x55SE dies drilled to fit 8mm neck diameter...

  • 7x57mm Mauser (.275 Rigby)
  • 7x61mm Sharpe & Hart
    7x61mm Sharpe & Hart
    The 7x61mm Sharpe & Hart Magnum belted cartridge was developed by Philip B. Sharpe and Richard Hart in the 1950s and based on the .300 H&H Magnum case.In 1953 Sharpe travelled to Scandinavia and the outcome of this trip was that...

  • 7x64mm Brenneke
  • 7x65mmR Brenneke
  • 7x72 Rimmed
  • 7.5x55mm Schmidt Rubin
  • 7.5x57mm MAS mod. 1924
    7.5x57mm MAS mod. 1924
    The 7.5 mm MAS mod. 1924 was a short-lived French rifle ammunition type that was introduced in the mid-1920s to replace the 8 mm Lebel. The "Lebel" round was powerful and accurate but due to its shape it was particularly poorly suited to automatic weapons with large-capacity magazines. The only...

     7.5x54mm MAS mod. 1929
  • 7.62 mm caliber
    7.62 mm caliber
    7.62 mm caliber is a nominal caliber used for a number of different cartridges. Historically, this class of cartridge was commonly known as .30 caliber, the Imperial unit equivalent, and was most commonly used for indicating a class of full power military main battle rifle cartridges...

  • 7.62x25mm Tokarev
  • 7.62x38mmR
    7.62x38mmR
    7.62×38mmR is a unique ammunition cartridge designed for use in the Russian Nagant M1895 revolver....

  • 7.62x39mm
  • 7.62x40 Wilson Tactical
    7.62x40 Wilson Tactical
    The 7.62×40 Wilson Tactical is a centerfire rifle cartridge introduced in 2011 by Wilson Combat. The goal was to produce an accurate, low-recoil .30-caliber cartridge that could be used in AR-15/M4 rifles using as many standard components as possible.-Design:The 7.62×40 WT is based on the...

  • 7.62x45mm vz. 52
  • 7.62x51mm NATO
  • 7.62x53mm Rimmed
  • 7.62 x 54R (rimmed) (7.62 Russian)
    7.62 x 54 mm R
    The 7.62×54mmR is a rimmed rifle cartridge developed by the Russian Empire and was introduced as a service cartridge in 1891. Originally designed for the bolt-action Mosin–Nagant rifle, it was used during the late Tsarist era and throughout the Soviet period to the present day...

  • 7.63x25mm Mauser
  • 7.65x22mm Parabellum
  • 7.65x53mm Argentine (7.65x53mm Mauser)
  • 7.65x53mmR
  • 7.63x54mm Greek Mannlicher-Schoenauer
  • 7.7x58mm Arisaka
  • 7.8 SLEC (( 7.8 SPECIAL LAW ENFORCEMENT CARTRIDGE))
  • 7.82 Patriot
  • 7.82 Warbird
  • 7.92x33mm Kurz
  • 7.92x36mm EPK
    7.92x36mm EPK
    The 7.92×36mm EPK was an experimental rifle round intended for the Pyrkal light machine gun. The round is essentially a 6.5mm Mannlicher round necked up to chamber a 7.92mm round.-References:...

  • 7.92x57mm Mauser
    7.92x57mm Mauser
    The 8×57mm IS is a rimless bottlenecked rifle cartridge. The 8×57mm IS was adopted by the German Empire in 1905, and was the German service cartridge in both World Wars...

     (8 mm Mauser or 8x57 JS)

8mm - 9mm

  • 8 mm-06
    .30-06 Springfield Wildcat Cartridges
    Wildcat cartridges are firearms cartridges whose dimensions have been modified. Usually these modifications are with an eye toward improved performance, either measurable or not. This article deals with wildcat cartridges which result from a simple necking down or up of the original .30-06...

  • 8 mm Lebel
    8 mm Lebel
    The 8×50mmR French rifle cartridge was the first smokeless gunpowder cartridge to be made and adopted by any country. It was introduced by France in 1886. Formed by necking down the 11 mm Gras black powder cartridge, the smokeless 8 mm Lebel cartridge started a revolution in military rifle...

     or 8x50R Lebel
  • 8 mm Remington Magnum
    8 mm Remington Magnum
    The 8mm Remington Magnum belted rifle cartridge was introduced by Remington Arms Company in 1978 as a new chambering for the model 700 BDL rifle. The 8 mm Remington Magnum's parent case is the .375 H&H Magnum...

  • 8x35mm
  • 8x50mmR Mannlicher
  • 8x56mm Mannlicher-Schoenauer
  • 8x56mmR
    8x56mmR
    The 8x56mmR or 8 x 56 R M30S cartridge was adopted in the 1930s by both Austria and Hungary as a replacement for the 8×50mmR Mannlicher cartridge. It was originally created for the Steyr-Solothurn light machine gun as the M30. Later the cartridge was adopted for use in rifles in 1931 as the M31 to...

     Steyr or Hungarian
  • 8x58mm RD (rimmed danish)
  • 8x60mm S
  • 8x64mm S
    8x64mm S
    The 8x64mm S is a rimless bottlenecked centerfire cartridge developed as a military service round for the German Army who never issued it...

     Brenneke
  • 8x68mm S
    8x68mm S
    The 8x68mm S rimless bottlenecked rifle cartridge and its necked down sister cartridge the 6.5x68mm were developed in the 1930s by Mr...


9mm and larger

  • 9x39mm
    9x39mm
    The 9x39 mm is a Soviet / Russian rifle cartridge. It is based on the Russian 7.62x39 mm round, but with an enlarged neck to accommodate a 9 mm bullet. The cartridge was designed by N. Zabelin, L. Dvoryaninova and Y. Frolov of the TsNIITochMash in the 1980s...

  • 9x45mm
  • 9x53mm
  • 9x56mm Mannlicher-Schoenauer
  • 9x57mm Mauser
    9x57mm Mauser
    The 9x57mm Mauser is a cartridge based on the 7.92x57mm Mauser. It uses the identical 57 mm-long cartridge case, with the same shoulder angle, but necked up to accept a 9 mm-diameter bullet. Ballistically - but not dimensionally - it is indistinguishable from the 9x56mm...

  • 9.3x57mm
  • 9.3x62mm
  • 9.3x64mm Brenneke
    9.3x64mm Brenneke
    The 9.3x64mm Brenneke is a rimless bottlenecked centerfire cartridge developed for big game hunting. As is customary in European cartridges the 9.3 denotes the 9.3 mm bullet diameter and the 64 denotes the 64 mm case length. Using the bullet diameter is unusual in German cartridge...

  • 9.3x66mm Sako
  • 9.3x72mmD
  • 9.3x74mmR
    9.3x74mmR
    9.3x74R is a European medium bore cartridge invented in Germany around 1900, and designed to be used in non-bolt action rifles, particularly double or single shot.-Design:...

  • 9.5x57mm Mannlicher-Schoenauer (.375 Rimless Nitro Express x 2-1/4")
  • 10.75x57mm
  • 10.75x68mm
  • 10.75x73mm
  • 11x60mm Mauser
    11x60mm Mauser
    The 11mm Mauser was a blackpowder cartridge developed for the Mauser Model 1871 rifle, and used later in the 71/84 variant. It is no longer in production, but is available from custom loaders, and dies exist to handload it. It is also known as .43 Mauser....

  • 12.7mm British No. 2
    .500 No. 2 Express
    The .500 No. 2 Express is a British centerfire fire rifle cartridge....

  • 12.7x99mm NATO
    .50 BMG
    The .50 Browning Machine Gun or 12.7×99mm NATO is a cartridge developed for the Browning .50 caliber machine gun in the late 1910s. Entering service officially in 1921, the round is based on a greatly scaled-up .30-06 cartridge...

     (Multi-Purpose)
  • 12.7x54mm
    12.7x54mm
    The 12.7×54mm Subsonic cartridge is used in the VKS bullpup sniper rifle. The cartridge can carry a projectile weighing between from 59 g and 76 g , yielding massive amounts of kinetic energy. The round can penetrate up to 16mm of steel at 200 meters or heavy body armor at 100 meters...

     (subsonic)
  • 12.7x108mm
  • 13x63B
  • 13.2x92mm
  • 14.5x114mm
  • 14.5 mm JDJ
    14.5 mm JDJ
    The 14.5mm JDJ was created by SSK Industries of Wintersville, Ohio.-Overview:It uses the .50 BMG case with the neck opened up to accept a bullet. It fires the bullet at with the fire-formed load. The Barnes bullet can also be loaded to . It has a destructive device exemption. Only rifles...

  • 15.2 mm Steyr Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot (APFSDS)
  • 20 mm caliber
    20 mm caliber
    The 20 mm caliber is a specific size of cannon or autocannon ammunition, commonly the smallest caliber which is unambiguously a cannon and not a heavy machine gun....

  • 25x137mm
  • 30x165mm
    30 mm caliber
    30 mm caliber ammunition is usually used in autocannon. Such ammunition includes NATO standard 30 × 173 mm and 30 × 113 mm and Soviet 30 × 165 mm ammunition widely used around the world....

  • 30x173mm
    30 mm caliber
    30 mm caliber ammunition is usually used in autocannon. Such ammunition includes NATO standard 30 × 173 mm and 30 × 113 mm and Soviet 30 × 165 mm ammunition widely used around the world....


Inches

  • .14 Walker Hornet
  • .14/221
  • .14-222
    .14-222
    The .14-222 is a wildcat cartridge that was created in 1985 by Helmut W. Sakschek. It uses a .222 Remington case necked down to accept a .14 caliber bullet....

  • .17 Ackley Bee
    .17 Ackley Bee
    The .17 Ackley Bee is a wildcat centerfire rifle cartridge named after its designer, P.O. Ackley, and is a .218 Bee case necked down to .17 caliber with a squarer shoulder and less body taper. Being a rimmed case it was popular with single shot rifles such as the Martini Cadet and Low Wall Winchester...

  • .17 CCM
    .17 CCM
    The .17 CCM is a necked down version of the .22 CCM. This cartridge was introduced in 1992 and was originally designed by Mike Hill. Dan Cooper further refined the cartridge and chambering to put it into production in the Cooper Model 38 action.The .17 CCM is designed specifically for varmint...

  • .17 Hornet
    .17 Hornet
    The .17 Hornet, also known as the .17 Ackley Hornet, is a .17 caliber rifle wildcat cartridge originally made by P.O. Ackley in the early 1950s. The cartridge was created by simply necking-down the .22 Hornet to .17 caliber. The result was a small case with relatively little noise capable of high...

  • .17 Mach IV
    .17 Mach IV
    The .17 Mach IV is a wildcat centerfire rifle cartridge, based on the .221 Remington Fireball case, necked down to fire a .172 bullet. The cartridge was introduced in 1962 by Vern O’Brien it offered an easy case conversion and good ballistics but could not compete against the .17 Remington.The name...

  • .17 PMC/Aguila
    .17 PMC/Aguila
    The .17 PMC/Aguila or .17 High Standard is a rimfire cartridge formed by necking down the .22 Long Rifle casing to accept a .172" diameter bullet. This cartridge was developed in 2003 by firearms maker High Standard and ammunition maker Aguila and introduced in 2004...

  • .17 PPC
  • .17-06
    .30-06 Springfield Wildcat Cartridges
    Wildcat cartridges are firearms cartridges whose dimensions have been modified. Usually these modifications are with an eye toward improved performance, either measurable or not. This article deals with wildcat cartridges which result from a simple necking down or up of the original .30-06...

  • .17-222
  • .17-223
    .17-223
    The .17-223 is a centerfire wildcat rifle cartridge. It is based on the .223 Remington, but the neck is re-sized to accept a .17 caliber bullet.-External links:* By Dave Moreton...

  • .17-225 Winchester
  • .17/23 SMC
  • .17-357 RG (.172" Wildcat based on the 357 SIG)
  • .191 (4.85mm SAA)
  • .19 Badger
  • .19 Calhoon Hornet
    .19 Calhoon Hornet
    Calhoon cartridges are a class of .19 caliber cartridges created by James Calhoon, a firearms designer with an in interest in .19 caliber cartridges. Calhoon began working with .19 caliber after his interest was piqued from learning about British sub-caliber rifle trials in the early 1970s...

  • .19-223
  • 20 BR
    20 BR
    20BR is one of the many 20 caliber rifle cartridges known as wildcats . It is basically a .22 BR Remington case necked down to accept a .204" diameter bullet maintaining the same shoulder angle and overall length...

  • 20 Fergusson Ace
    20 Fergusson Ace
    20 Fergusson Ace is a wildcat centerfire rifle cartridge based upon the 20 BR which has a blown out shoulder angle of 45 degrees. It was designed and developed by legendary gunsmith and varmint hunter Gaylon 'Ace' Fergusson and predates the .204 Ruger factory cartridge...

  • 20 Magna
  • 20 PPC
  • .20 Tactical
    .20 Tactical
    The .20 Tactical is a wildcat centerfire rifle cartridge, based on the .223 Remington case, necked down to fire a .204" caliber bullet. The .20 Tactical was designed by Todd Kindler and predates the .204 Ruger factory round. The case has approximately 3 grains less powder capacity than the popular...

  • .20 VarTarg
    .20 VarTarg
    The .20 VarTarg is a wildcat centerfire rifle cartridge, based on the .221 Remington Fireball case, necked down to fire a .204 bullet. The VarTarg is most popular with varmint hunters because it provides good range and uses relatively little powder, so the rifle barrel doesn't heat up quite as fast...

  • .20-06
    .30-06 Springfield Wildcat Cartridges
    Wildcat cartridges are firearms cartridges whose dimensions have been modified. Usually these modifications are with an eye toward improved performance, either measurable or not. This article deals with wildcat cartridges which result from a simple necking down or up of the original .30-06...

  • .218 Mashburn Bee
  • .219 Donaldson Wasp
    .219 Donaldson Wasp
    The .219 Donaldson Wasp cartridge was created in 1937 by Harvey Donaldson. It is based on the .219 Zipper case, which is in turn based upon the .25-35 Winchester case. While popular amongst match shooters in the 1930s & 1940s it has fallen by the wayside in favor of cartridges such as the 22 PPC...

  • .22 Cheetah
    .22 Cheetah
    The .22 CHeetah is a .22 wildcat cartridge developed in the 1970s or 1980s by Jim Carmichel and Fred Huntington....

  • .22 Eargesplitten Loudenboomer
    .22 Eargesplitten Loudenboomer
    .22 Eargesplitten Loudenboomer is a cartridge for a rifle.It was invented in the 1960s by P.O. Ackley to set a world record for firing bullets at over 5000 fps . The round failed to reach the desired velocity, but reached 4600 fps with a 50 grain bullet and 105 grains of H570 powder. It is based...

  • .22 Savage High Power
    5.6x52mmR
    The 5.6x52mmR cartridge was created by Charles Newton and produced by Savage Arms in 1912. It is also known as the .22 Savage High-Power and .22 "Imp", and is based upon the .25-35 Winchester cartridge necked down to accept a .227in/.228in diameter bullet.Its inherent accuracy, relatively high...

  • .22-06
    .30-06 Springfield Wildcat Cartridges
    Wildcat cartridges are firearms cartridges whose dimensions have been modified. Usually these modifications are with an eye toward improved performance, either measurable or not. This article deals with wildcat cartridges which result from a simple necking down or up of the original .30-06...

  • .22-243 Middlestead
  • .22-284 Winchester
  • .22/30 (T65 Duplex)
  • .22/303
    .303/22
    The .303/22, sometimes known as the .22/303 is a wildcat centrefire rifle cartridge, based on the .303 British, necked down to fire a .224 projectile, originating in Australia in the 1930s as a cartridge for sporterised rifles, particularly on the Lee Enfield action, similar versions also appeared...

  • .222 Rimmed
    .222 Rimmed
    The .222 Rimmed is a centrefire rifle cartridge, originating in Australia in the 1960s as a cartridge for single shot rifles, particularly the Martini Cadet action...

  • .223 AI
    .223 Remington
    The .223 Remington is a sporting cartridge with almost the same external dimensions as the 5.56×45mm NATO military cartridge. The name is commonly pronounced either two-two-three or two-twenty-three. It is loaded with a diameter, jacketed bullet, with weights ranging from , though the most common...

  • .224 Donaldson Ace
  • .240 Apex
    .240 Apex
    The .240 Apex is a centrefire sporting rifle cartridge developed in England in the 1920s, primarily for use in hunting deer and plains game...

     (.240 Belted Nitro Express and .240 Magnum Flanged)
  • .264 LBC-AR
  • .264 warrior magnum
    .264 Warrior Magnum
    The .264 Warrior Magnum is a 6.5 mm caliber intermediate cartridge that was developed specifically for long-range Benchrest shooting and hunting in AR-15 platform because it has a flatter trajectory and retains greater terminal energy at extended ranges than other AR-15 cartridges due to its...

     (6.5x40 mm)
  • .25/303
    .303/25
    The .303/25, sometimes known as the .25/303 is a wildcat centrefire rifle cartridge, based on the .303 British, necked down to fire a .257 projectile, originating in Australia in the 1940s as a cartridge for sporterised rifles, particularly on the Lee Enfield action, similar versions also appeared...

  • .275 H&H Magnum
    .275 H&H Magnum
    The .275 Holland & Holland Magnum is a semi-obsolete rifle cartridge similar to the 7mm Remington Magnum. It was introduced by the British company Holland & Holland in 1912 with a shorter version of the belted case of the .375 H&H Magnum introduced the same year as the .375 Belted Rimless...

  • Modern .275 H&H (Based on Full length 375 Ruger case)
  • Modern 7mm Rem mag (based on 375 Ruger case)
  • Modern 300 H&H (based on full length 375 Ruger)
  • .30 BR
  • .30 USA
  • .30 Walker
    .30 Walker
    The .30 Walker is an intermediate cartridge developed by Mark Walker of Houston, Texas. This cartridge is an improved version of the PPC cartridge family...

  • .30-03
    .30-03
    The .30-03 was a short-lived cartridge developed by the United States in 1903, to replace the .30-40 Krag in the new Springfield 1903 rifle. The .30-03 was also called the .30-45, since it used a 45 grain powder charge; the name was changed to .30-03 to indicate the year of adoption. It used a...

  • .309 jdj
  • .30-06 JDJ
  • .309 Bull
  • .300 Dakota
  • .300 ICL Grizzly
  • .300 Lapua Magnum
    .300 Lapua Magnum
    The .300 Lapua Magnum is a specialized rimless bottlenecked centerfire cartridge developed for long-range rifles. The commercially successful .338 Lapua Magnum cartridge has functioned as the parent case for the .300 Lapua Magnum, which is essentially a necked-down version of the .338 Lapua Magnum...

  • .300 Remington American Magnum
    .300 Remington American Magnum
    The .300, .338, .375 family of Remington American Magnums was designed by Aleksandr Kolesnikov of Houston, Texas, USA in February 2010. This was a response to the .375 Ruger...

  • .300 Whisper
    .300 Whisper
    The .300 Whisper is a wildcat cartridge in the Whisper family, a group of cartridges developed in the early 1990s by J.D. Jones of SSK Industries...

     (.300 Fireball)
  • 300 AAC Blackout (7.62×35mm)
  • .300-221
  • .303-06
    .30-06 Springfield Wildcat Cartridges
    Wildcat cartridges are firearms cartridges whose dimensions have been modified. Usually these modifications are with an eye toward improved performance, either measurable or not. This article deals with wildcat cartridges which result from a simple necking down or up of the original .30-06...

  • .330 Dakota
  • .333 Jeffery Flanged
    .333 Jeffery Flanged
    The .333 Jeffery Flanged or .333 Flanged Nitro Express is a .333 caliber rimmed, bottlenecked rifle cartridge. It was developed by the W.J. Jeffery & Co. in 1908 as a rimmed version of the .333 Jeffery and is intended for double rifles....

  • .333 OKH
  • .338-06 A-Square
  • .338 Whisper
    .338 Whisper
    The .338 Whisper is a wildcat cartridgein the Whisper family, a group of cartridges developed in the early 1990s by J.D. Jones of SSK Industries. Unlike the smaller caliber cartridges in the Whisper family, loads for the .338 Whisper are mainly limited to subsonic velocities...

  • .338 Voschol
  • .338 x 57 O'Connor
  • .35 Samba (Also .35 WSM)
  • .357/.44 B & D (Bain and Davis)
  • .375 Dakota
    .375 Dakota
    The .375 Dakota is dangerous game cartridge and was designed by Don Allen, the founder of Dakota Arms of Sturgis, South Dakota. Since the .375 Dakota is a proprietary cartridge, no other manufacturers have produced rifles or ammunition for the .375 Dakota cartridge...

  • .375 Whisper
  • Modern .375 H&H (based on full length 375 Ruger)
  • .40-65 Winchester
    .40-65 Winchester
    The .40-65 Winchester was an American rifle cartridge.Introduced with the 1887 Winchester Model 86, and available in Winchester single shots and in the Marlin Model 95, it was "a further effort to put more steam" in repeating rifle cartridges.It was commercially available in black and smokeless...

  • .40-70 Sharps
  • .400 Whelen
    .400 Whelen
    The .400 Whelen cartridge was developed by Colonel Townsend Whelen while he was commanding officer of Frankford Arsenal in the early 1920s. The cartridge resembles a .30-06 Springfield case necked up to .40 caliber to accept bullets manufactured for the .405 Winchester.-Design:Colonel Whelen...

  • .416 Taylor
    .416 Taylor
    The .416 Taylor is a rifle cartridge. According to Ken Waters in Pet Loads, it was created by Robert Chatfield-Taylor in the early 1970s, with the first rifle in this caliber being a factory barreled Winchester Model 70. The case is based on the .458 Winchester Magnum necked down to accept .416...

  • .416 Whisper
  • Modern 416 (based on full length 375 Ruger)
  • .425 Westley Richards
    .425 Westley Richards
    The .425 Westley Richards Magnum is one of the classic African big-game rounds. It is a cartridge invented by Leslie Taylor of Westley Richards, a gunmaking firm of Birmingham England in 1909 as a proprietary cartridge for their bolt action rifles...

  • .44 Henry
    .44 Henry
    The .44 Henry, also known as the .44 Rimfire, the .44 Long Rimfire, or the 11x23R cartridge was a rim-fire round that uses a .875 inch casing. The round has a total length of 1.345 inches. It uses a 200 or 216 grain bullet with a .446 diameter. The cartridge was loaded with 26 to 28...

  • .45-90 Sharps
    .45-90 Sharps
    The .45-90 Sharps cartridge is a black powder round introduced in 1877 by the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company. Also known as the .45 2 4/10, the cartridge was developed for hunting and long range target shooting....

  • .45-110 Sharps
  • .45-120 Sharps
  • .450 Watts Magnum
  • Modern 450 (2.598" 404 Case)
  • Modern 460 (2.850" 404 Case)
  • .458 SOCOM
    .458 SOCOM
    The .458 SOCOM is a relatively large round designed for a specialized upper receiver that can be mounted on any AR-15 pattern rifle. The round offers a muzzle velocity and .- History:...

  • .470 Capstick
    .470 Capstick
    The .470 Capstick is a rifle cartridge created by Col. Arthur B Alphin from A-Square in 1990, named after writer and hunter Peter Hathaway Capstick. It is based on a .375 H&H Magnum case blown out and necked to accept a .475 inch bullet...

  • .475 OKH
  • .475 Ackley
  • .500 Phantom

Metric

  • 4.5mm mkr
  • 5mm Craig
  • 5mm/35 SMc
  • 6-06
  • 6-284
  • 6mmAR
    6mmAR
    The 6mmAR is a centerfire wildcat cartridge designed by Robert Whitley for long-range performance in an AR-15 rifle. The cartridge uses a 6.5 Grendel case that has been necked-down to accept a 6 mm bullet....

  • 6mm BRX
  • 6mm Dasher
  • 6mm XC
  • 6x45 mm
    6x45 mm
    The 6×45mm is a rimless, bottlenecked cartridge based on the .223 Remington or 5.56 NATO cartridge necked up to .243 . The cartridge is also known as the 6mm-223 Remington or 6mm/223.-History:...

  • 6 x 47 Swiss Match (6mm/222 Mag)
  • 6.5-06
  • 6.5 Grendel
    6.5 Grendel
    The 6.5 Grendel is a proprietary intermediate cartridge developed in 2002 by Arne Brennan . This cartridge is an improved version of the PPC cartridge family designed by Dr. Lou Palmisano and Ferris Pindell in 1974. The first 6.5mm member of the PPC cartridge family was created in 1984 by Dr...

     (6.5x39mm)
  • 6.5 CSS
  • 6.5 PPCX
  • 6.5 BPC
  • 6.5 BR
  • 6.5x40mm (.264 warrior magnum
    .264 Warrior Magnum
    The .264 Warrior Magnum is a 6.5 mm caliber intermediate cartridge that was developed specifically for long-range Benchrest shooting and hunting in AR-15 platform because it has a flatter trajectory and retains greater terminal energy at extended ranges than other AR-15 cartridges due to its...

    )
  • 6.5 x 47 Lapua
  • 6.5 x 57
  • 6.5 Jonson
  • 6.5 Wby Mag
  • 6.5/.243 WSSM
  • 7mm Dakota
  • 7mm Gradle Express
  • 7x54mm Fournier
    7x54mm Fournier
    Created by the gunsmith Jean Fournier, the 7x54mm is basically the 7.5x54mm French necked down to 7 mm. The cartridge was designed to be used with the Mas Fournier hunting rifle, which was itself a modification of the MAS-36 rifle....

  • 7.62 Jonson
  • 7.62 Thumper
    7.62 Thumper
    7.62 Thumper is a barrel specification optimized to run larger bullets out of standard 7.62x39mm cases. Barrels are cut to a standard 7.62x39mm "Russian" chamber but the bore ideally uses a faster 1:8" rifling twist rate in order to stabilize bullets heavier than 200gr at subsonic speeds...

  • 7.82 Lazzeroni Patriot
  • 7.82 Lazzeroni Warbird
  • 8mm-06 Ackley Improved
  • 10,4 x 38 Vetterli (US: ".41 Swiss")
  • 10,4 x 47 Italian Vetterli

Bore/Gauge

  • 12 bore
  • 10 bore
  • 8 bore
    8 bore
    Eight bore, 8 bore, or 8 gauge is an obsolete caliber used commonly in the 19th century black powder firearms. It may refer to either rifles or shotguns. It is the size between the larger four bore and the smaller ten bore...

  • Six bore
  • 4 bore
    4 bore
    Four bore or 4 bore is an obsolete 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 two bore and the lesser six bore...

     - approx. 25mm
  • 2 bore - 33.6mm
    2 bore
    The Two Bore or 2 Bore is a mostly obsolete firearm caliber.- Specifications :The historical two bore fired spherical balls or slugs of hardened lead or, in the modern metallic cartridge, additionally a solid bronze projectile. The gauge is , and the projectiles generally weigh 8 ounces...


See also

  • List of cartridges by caliber
  • Firearms, List of firearms
  • List of handgun cartridges
  • List of rimfire cartridges
  • Gauge (bore diameter)
    Gauge (bore diameter)
    The gauge of a firearm is a unit of measurement used to express the diameter of the barrel. Gauge is determined from the weight of a solid sphere of lead that will fit the bore of the firearm, and is expressed as the multiplicative inverse of the sphere's weight as a fraction of a pound . Thus...

  • Cartridge (firearms)
    Cartridge (firearms)
    A cartridge, also called a round, packages the bullet, gunpowder and primer into a single metallic case precisely made to fit the firing chamber of a firearm. The primer is a small charge of impact-sensitive chemical that may be located at the center of the case head or at its rim . Electrically...

  • Table of pistol and rifle cartridges (by year)
  • By Size:
    • 2 mm caliber
      2 mm caliber
      This article lists firearm cartridges which have a bullet in the .079 in / 2 mm caliber range.Length refers to the cartridge case length. OAL refers to the overall length of the cartridge...

       3 mm caliber
      3 mm caliber
      This article lists firearm cartridges which have a bullet in the .118 in / 3 mm caliber range.Length refers to the cartridge case length.OAL refers to the overall length of the cartridge.All measurements are in mm .-.118 in / 3 mm auto cartridges:...

       4 mm caliber
      4 mm caliber
      This article lists firearm cartridges which have a bullet in the .172 in / 4.5mm caliber range.*Length refers to the cartridge case length.*OAL refers to the overall length of the cartridge.All measurements are in mm .-Rimfire cartridges:...

       5 mm caliber
      5 mm caliber
      This article lists firearm cartridges which have a bullet in the to caliber range.*Length refers to the cartridge case length.*OAL refers to the overall length of the cartridge.All measurements are in mm .-Rimfire cartridges:...

       6 mm caliber
      6 mm caliber
      This article lists firearm cartridges which have a bullet caliber between and .*Length refers to the cartridge case length.*OAL refers to the overall length of the cartridge.All measurements are in mm .-Pistol cartridges:-.24in :...

       7 mm caliber
      7 mm caliber
      This article lists firearm cartridges which have a bullet in the to caliber range.*Length refers to the cartridge case length.*OAL refers to the overall length of the cartridge....

    • 8 mm caliber
      8 mm caliber
      This article lists firearm cartridges which have a bullet in the to caliber range.*Length refers to the empty cartridge case length.*OAL refers to the overall length of the loaded cartridge.All measurements are in mm .-Pistol cartridges:...

       9 mm caliber
      9 mm caliber
      This article lists firearm cartridges which have a bullet in the caliber range. The most prevalent of these rounds is the 9x19mm Parabellum.*Length refers to the cartridge case length.*OAL refers to the overall length of the cartridge....

       10 mm caliber
      10 mm caliber
      This article lists firearm cartridges which have a bullet in the caliber range.*Length refers to the cartridge case length.*OAL refers to the overall length of the cartridge.All measurements are in mm .-Pistol cartridges:...

       11 mm caliber
      11 mm caliber
      This article lists firearm cartridges which have a bullet in the through caliber range.All measurements are in millimeters .-Pistol cartridges:-Revolver cartridges:-Rifle cartridges:-See also:...

       12 mm caliber
      12 mm caliber
      This article lists firearm cartridges which have a bullet in the to caliber range.*Length refers to the cartridge case length.*OAL refers to the overall length of the cartridge.*Bullet refers to the diameter of the bullet....

       13 mm caliber
      13 mm caliber
      This article lists firearm cartridges which have a bullet in the caliber range and greater.*Length refers to the cartridge case length.*OAL refers to the overall length of the cartridge.*Bullet refers to the diameter of the bullet....

  • By name:
  • List of Winchester Center Fire cartridges
  • Winchester Short Magnum
    Winchester Short Magnum
    Winchester Short Magnum, or WSM, refers to a family of rebated rim bottlenecked centerfire short magnum cartridges developed in the early 2000s by the U.S. Repeating Arms Company, the maker of Winchester rifles and one of the oldest firearms manufacturers in the United States...

  • Winchester Super Short Magnum
    Winchester Super Short Magnum
    Winchester Super Short Magnum, or WSSM is a line of rebated rim bottlenecked centerfire short magnum cartridges introduced by the U.S. Repeating Arms Company...

  • Remington Ultra Magnum
    Remington Ultra Magnum
    Remington Ultra Magnum, or RUM, refers to a "family" of cartridges developed in 1999 and the early 2000s by the Remington Arms. All of the RUM cartridges are based on the .404 Jeffery non-belted magnum cartridge. There is a long-case line, as well as a shortened version designed to fit a short...

  • ICL cartridges
    ICL cartridges
    ICL cartridges are rare hunting wildcat cartridges developed by Arnold & Vern Juenke, gunsmiths who owned Saturn Gun Works in Reno, Nevada....

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