List of handgun cartridges

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List of handgun cartridges, approximately in order of increasing caliber.

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Table of handgun cartridges

Handgun cartridges
Cartridge nameBullet diameterCase lengthCartridge lengthTypeSource
inmminmminmm
2.34mm rimfire (for Swiss mini gun).0922.3.2406.1Rimmed, rimfire [1]
2.7mm Kolibri (2 mm Kolibri, 2.7×9mm).1072.7.3709.4.43010.9Rimless [2]
3 mm Kolibri .1203.0.3208.1.43010.9Rimless [2]
4.25 mm Liliput (4.25 mm Erika).1674.2.41010.4.56014.2Rimless [2]
.17 Hornady Mach 2 (.17 HM2).1724.4.71418.1Rimmed, rimfire [3]
.17 Hornady Magnum Rimfire (.17 HMR).1724.41.05826.9Rimmed, rimfire [4]
.17-357 RG (.17 Real Guns).1724.40.86522.01.31033.3Rimless.357 SIG case based [5] [6] [7]
HK 4.6×30mm .1834.61.20130.5Rimless [8]
5 mm Clement (5 mm Clement Auto).2025.1.71018.01.01025.7Rimless [2]
5 mm Bergmann (5 mm Bergmann Rimless).2035.2.59015.0.96024.4Rimless [2]
5 mm Remington Rimfire Magnum (5 mm RMR).2055.21.02025.91.13028.7Rimmed, rimfire [9]
5.45×18mm MPTs/PSM (5.45×18mm Soviet).2105.3.70017.8.98024.9Rimless [2]
.22 BB (.22 BB Cap).2225.6.2847.2.3438.7Rimmed, rimfire [9]
.22 CB (.22 CB Cap).2225.6.42010.7.52013.2Rimmed, rimfire [9]
.22 Short .2235.7.42310.7.68617.4Rimmed, rimfire [9]
.22 Long .2235.7.59515.1.88022.4Rimmed, rimfire [9]
.22 Long Rifle (.22 LR, .22 Stinger [hot loading]).2235.7.59515.1.97524.8Rimmed, rimfire [9]
.22 Remington Jet (.22 Jet, .22 Centerfire Magnum).2235.71.28032.51.58040.1Rimless [2]
.22 Reed Express 7.62mm Tokarev necked to .223/4.2235.70.98024.91.35034.3Rimless [10]
.22 TCM .2235.71.02526.0Rimless
.22 WMR (.22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire, .22 Magnum).2245.71.05226.71.35034.3Rimmed, rimfire [9]
.224 Kay-Chuk (.224 Harvey Kay-Chuk).2245.71.3534Rimmed [11]
.221 Remington Fireball .2245.71.40035.61.82046.2Rimless [2]
.224 BOZ .2245.7.90923.1Rimless [12]
.224 Montgomery .2245.7.62015.7Rimless
.224-32 FA [.327 Federal necked to .22].2245.71.12028.4Rimmed [13]
FN 5.7×28mm .2245.71.13028.71.71043.4Rebated rim [14]
5.5mm Velo-Dog (5.75mm Velo Dog).2255.71.12028.41.35034.3Rimmed [2]
5.8×21 mm DAP92 .2305.8.82721.0Rimless [15]
.25 ACP (.25 Auto Colt Pistol, 6.35mm Browning, .25/6.35mm Auto, 6.35×16mmSR).2516.4.62015.7.91023.1Semi-rimmed [2]
.25 NAA .2516.40.74518.90.96024.4Semi-rimmed [16]
.256 Winchester Magnum .2576.51.30033.01.53038.9Rimmed [2]
6.5mm Bergmann .2646.7.87022.11.23031.2Rimless [2]
7mm Penna .2777.0.9123Rimless, straight [17]
7.25 Adler .2797.1.69517.7Rimless, bottleneck [18]
7 mm Nambu (7×20mm).2807.1.78019.81.06026.9Rimless [2]
7.62mm Nagant (7.62×38 mmR).2957.51.53038.91.53038.9Rimmed [2]
7.5 FK (7.5×27mm).3077.81.06327.01.37835.0Rimless [19]
.30 Wildey (.30 Wildey Magnum) [necked .475 Wildey].3097.8Rimless
7.62×17 mm Type 64 (7.62 mm Chinese) [rimless .32 ACP].3097.85.67017.0.98024.9Rimless [20]
7.62mm Tokarev (7.62×25mm).3077.8.97024.61.35034.3Rimless [2]
7.62×42 mm SP-4 .3077.81.63441.5Rimless [21]
7.63mm Mauser (7.63×25 mm).3087.8.99025.11.36034.5Rimless [2]
.32 ACP (.32 Auto Colt Pistol, 7.65mm Browning, .32/7.65mm Auto, 7.65×17mmSR).3097.8.68017.31.03026.2Semi-rimmed [2]
.32 Colt [inside-lubricated .32 Long Colt variant].2997.6.75519.2Rimmed [22]
.32 Protector .3007.6.3508.9Rimmed [22]
7.65mm Roth–Sauer, 7.65mm Frommer.3017.6.51013.0.84021.3Rimless [2]
7.65mm Borchardt (7.65×25mm Borchardt, .30 Borchardt).3077.8.99025.11.34034.0Rimless [2]
7.65 mm Parabellum (7.65×21mm Parabellum/Luger, 7.65mm/.30 Luger).3087.8.85021.61.15029.2Rimless [2]
7.65mm Mannlicher (7.63mm Mannlicher, 7.65×21 mm).3087.8.84021.31.12028.4Rimless [2]
.35 S&W Auto (.35 Auto).3097.8.67017.0.97024.6Rimless [2]
7.65 mm Longue (7.65 mm MAS).3097.8.78019.81.19030.2Rimless [2]
7.7 mm Bittner 1893 pistol [first 0.308, later .302 cal].3087.8RimmedHogg & Weeks 1996, p. 181, [23]
8 mm Pieper (8x37mmR Pieper).2867.31.46737.31.46737.3Rimmed [24]
.32 NAA .3127.9.68017.3Rimless [16]
.32 S&W .3127.9.61015.5.92023.4Rimmed [2]
.32 S&W Long (.32 Colt New Police).3127.9.93023.61.27032.3Rimmed [2]
7.92×24mm VBR [shortened .30 Carbine case].3127.9.94023.9Rimless
.32-20 Winchester (.32 WCF, .32-20 Marlin, .32 Colt Lightning).3127.91.32033.5Rimmed [16]
.32 H&R Magnum .3127.91.08027.41.35034.3Rimmed [25]
.327 Federal Magnum .3127.91.20030.5Rimmed [16]
.32 Short Colt (.32 SC).3127.9.61015.5Rimmed [2]
.32 Long Colt (.32 LC).3127.9.92023.4Rimmed [2]
.30 Super Carry (.30SC).3137.95.82721.01.16929.7Rimless
.320 Revolver (.320 European, .320 Bulldog, .320 Webley).3178.1.62015.7.90022.9Rimmed [2]
7.5 mm Swiss Army (7.5 mm 1882 Ordnance).3178.1.89022.61.29032.8Rimmed [2]
8 mm Rast & Gasser (8 mm Gasser).3208.11.03726.31.39135.3Rimmed [2]
8 mm Nambu .3208.1.86021.81.25031.8Semi-rimmed [2]
8 mm Lebel Revolver (8 mm French 1892 Ordnance).3298.41.07271.4437Rimmed [2]
7.5 mm Nagant (7.5 mm Swedish Nagant).3258.3.89231.35034.3Rimmed [2]
8 mm Roth–Steyr .3298.4.74018.81.14029.0Rimless [2]
8.5 mm Mars .3318.41.02426.01.44936.8Rimless [26]
9mm Japanese revolver (9×22mmR Type 26).3518.9.86021.81.21030.7Rimmed [27]
9mm Ultra (9 mm Police, 9×18mm).3559.0.72018.31.03026.2Rimless [2]
9mm Glisenti .3559.0.75019.11.1529Rimless [2]
9mm Parabellum (9×19mm Luger, 9 mm NATO).3559.0.75419.21.16929.7Rimless [2]
9 mm Federal (9×19mmR).3559.0.75419.21.16329.5Rimmed [2]
9mm Browning Long (9×20mmSR).3559.0.80020.31.10027.9Rimless [2]
9×21 mm (9 mm IMI).3559.0.83021.11.16029.5Rimless [28]
.356 TSW (9×21.5mm).3559.0.84021.3RimlessStarline 356 TS&W factsheet
9mm Action Express (9 mm AE).3559.0.86622.01.15229.3Rebated rim [28]
.38-45 Auto (.45-38 Auto Pistol/Clerke/Hard Head).3559.0.90231.20030.5Rimless [28]
9mm Steyr (9×23mm Steyr).3559.0.90022.91.30033.0Rimless [2]
9mm Largo (9×23mm, 9 mm Bergmann–Bayard/Bayard Long).3559.0.91023.11.32033.5Rimless [2]
9×25mm Mauser (also Mauser Export).3559.0.98124.91.38035.1Rimless [2]
9×25mm Dillon .3559.0.99025.11.26032.0Rimless [28]
9mm Winchester Magnum .3559.01.16029.51.54539.2Rimless [2]
.380 ACP (9×17mm, .380 Auto, 9 mm Kurz/Browning Short).3559.0.68017.3.98024.9Rimless [2]
.38 rimfire (.38RF, .38 Hopkins & Allen).3569.0.86622.01.34134.1Rimmed, rimfire [29]
9×23 mm Winchester .3569.0.90022.91.30033.0Rimless, [30] .38 rimfire
.38 Casull .3569.0.93323.7Rimless [31]
.38 Short Colt .3579.1.76219.41.05226.7Rimmed [2]
.38 Long Colt .3579.11.03026.21.32033.5Rimmed [2]
.38 Special .3579.11.16291.55039.4Rimmed [2]
.38 AMU (.38 Army Marksmanship Unit).3579.11.1529Rimless [32]
.357 Wildey Magnum (.357 Peterbuilt) [.475 Wildey Magnum necked to .357].3579.1Rebated rim
.357 AutoMag (.357 AMP).3579.11.29833.01.60040.6Rimless [28]
.357-45 GWM (.357/45 Grizzly Winchester Magnum).3579.11.30033.0RimlessLAR Reloading Data: Cartridge: "357/45 GWM"
.357/44 Bain & Davis .3579.11.28032.51.55039.4Rimmed [28]
.357 Magnum (9×33mmR, .353 Casull [hunting load for Freedom Arms revolvers]).3579.11.29032.81.59040.4Rimmed [2]
.360 DW (.360 Dan Wesson, 9×36 R)).3579.11.41535.9Rimmed [33] , [34]
.357 Maximum (.357 Remington Maximum).3579.11.59040.41.97050.0Rimmed [2]
.357 SuperMag [using .357 cal projectile].3579.11.61040.9RimmedGuns Illustrated 1996, p. 10, [35] [36]
.357 SIG .3559.0.86522.01.14029.0Rimless [2]
.38 ACP (.38 Auto, 9×23 mmSR).3589.1.90022.91.28032.5Semi-rimmed [2]
.38 Super (.38 Super Auto).3569.0.90022.91.28032.5Semi-rimmedLyman Reloading Handbook 46Ed, p. 381
.38 Super Comp .3569.0.89622.81.28032.5RimlessStarline cartridge dimensions
.38 S&W (.38 Colt New Police, .380 Rim, .38 S&W Corto, .380-200 British Service).3619.2.85021.61.17529.8RimmedSAAMI
9×21 mm Gyurza .3559.0.82020.81.333RimlessStarline cartridge dimensions
9 mm Mars .3609.11.03626.31.42636.2Rimless [37]
9mm Makarov (9×18mm PM).3639.2.71018.0.97024.6Rimless [2]
9.1x17R (9 mm Portuguese, 9.1 Abadie Revolver).3659.3.69417.61.11328.3Rimmed [38]
.375 SuperMag [using .375 cal projectile].3759.51.61040.9RimmedGuns Illustrated 1996, p. 11, [39] [40]
.380 Revolver Short [Webley, copied for .38 Short Colt].3759.50.70017.81.10027.9Rimmed [2]
.380 Revolver Long [Webley pattern from 1860s].3759.51.00025.41.40035.6Rimmed [2]
9.8mm Auto Colt (9.65mm Browning Automatic).3789.6.91223.21.26732.2Rimless [2]
9.4mm Dutch Revolver (9.4×21mm Dutch).3809.70.81520.71.15029.2Rimmed, taperedHandguns of the World (Ezell)
9.4mm Dutch El Revolver (9.4×27mm Dutch).3809.71.07127.21.29532.9Rimmed, taperedHandguns of the World (Ezell)
.38-40 Winchester (.38-40 WCF).40110.21.30033.01.59040.4Rimmed [41]
.41 Short (.41 Short Rimfire).40510.3.46711.9.91323.2Rimmed
.41 Short Colt .40210.2.63716.21.05726.8Rimmed [2]
.41 Long Colt .40110.21.13028.71.39035.3Rimmed [2]
.41 Long Colt [smokeless inside-lubricated variant].3869.81.13028.7Rimmed [2]
.40 S&W (.40 Auto, .40 Short, 10×22mm).40010.2.85021.61.23531.4Rimless [2]
10mm Auto (10×25mm, 10 mm Norma, 10 mm F.B.I.).40010.2.99025.11.26032.0Rimless [2]
10 mm Magnum [42] .40010.21.25531.9Rimless"10 mm Magnum Data" Handloading sheet
.40 Super .40010.2.98825.1Rimless
.40 G&A .40010.2.86622.0Rimless [43]
.40 G&A Magnum .40010.2Belted [43]
.400 Cor-Bon .40110.2.89822.81.20030.5Rimless [44]
.401 Powermag (.401 Herter's Powermag).40110.21.29032.81.64041.7Rimless [44]
.41 Action Express (.41 AE).41010.4.86622.01.17029.7Rebated rim [2]
.41 Avenger .41010.4.95024.1RimlessHandloader 107, p. 28
.41 Wildey Magnum (10 mm Wildey Magnum).41010.4Rebated rim
.41 Special .41010.41.16029.5Rimless [45]
.41 Magnum (.41 Remington Magnum).41010.41.28032.5Rimmed [2]
.414 SuperMag [using .41 cal projectile].41010.41.61040.9RimmedSierra Handgun Reloading Manual 4th Ed, p. 219, [46]
10.35 mm (10.4 mm Italian, 10.4 mm Italian Ordnance).42210.7.89022.61.2532Rimmed [2]
10.4mm Swiss Centerfire (1878 Swiss Ordnance).42410.8Rimmed
.44-40 Winchester (.44 WCF).42910.91.31033.3Rimmed [41]
.44 Russian (.44 Smith & Wesson Russian).42910.9.97024.6Rimmed [2]
.44 Special (.44 Smith & Wesson Special).42910.91.16029.5Rimmed [2]
.44 Magnum (.44 Remington Magnum).42910.91.29032.8Rimmed [2]
.445 SuperMag [using .43 cal projectile].43211.01.61040.9RimmedBarnes 1997, p. 200, [47]
.440 Cor-bon .42910.91.28032.5Rebated rim [44]
.429 DE (.429 Desert Eagle).42910.9Rebated rim [48]
.44 Wildey Magnum (11 mm Wildey Magnum).42910.9Rebated rimGuns November 1991, p. 42 []
.44 AMP (.44 AutoMag).42910.91.29833.0Rimless [2]
.44 S&W American (.44 Smith & Wesson American).43411.0.91023.1Rimmed [2]
.442 Webley (.442 Revolver Centre Fire, .442 Kurz, .44 Webley, .442 RIC, 10.5×17mmR).43611.1.69017.5Rimmed [2]
.44 Bull Dog .44011.2.57014.5Rimmed [2]
.44 Colt .44311.31.10027.9Rimmed [2]
11.3×36mmR (11 mm Gasser/Montenegrin, 11.25×36mm Montenegrin).44511.31.40035.6Rimmed [2]
11.35mm Schouboe (11.35×18mm SR/.45 Schouboe).44611.3Rimless [49]
.45 Mars Short .44711.40.79520.21.09627.8Rimless [50]
.45 Mars Long .44911.41.09327.81.40435.7Rimless [51]
11mm French Ordnance (11 mm MAS).45111.5.71018.0Rimmed [2]
11mm German Service (10.6/10.8mm German Service).45111.5.96024.4Rimmed [2]
.45 Winchester Magnum (.45 WinMag, .45 NAACO).45111.51.19830.4Rimless [2]
.455 SuperMag [using .45 cal projectile].45111.51.61040.9Rimmed
.450 Magnum Express .45111.51.34434.1Rimless [52]
.460 Rowland.45111.5.95524.31.26032.0Rimless
11 mm caliber#Revolver cartridges .45211.5.82020.8Rimmed [53]
.45 Auto Rim (.45 Automatic Rimmed).45211.5.89822.8Rimmed [2]
.45 GAP (.45 Glock/Glock Automatic Pistol).45211.5.75519.2Rebated rim [54]
.45 HP (.45 Hirtenberger Patrone, .45 Automatic Short, .45 Italian).45211.5.86021.8Rimless [2] [55]
.45 ACP (.45 Automatic/Auto Colt Pistol, 11.43×23 mm).45211.5.89822.81.26032.0Rimless [2]
.45 Super .45111.5.89822.81.26032.0Rimless
.450 SMC (.450 Short Magnum Cartridge, .450 Triton) [.45 Super with small primer].45111.5.89822.81.26032.0Rimless [56]
.450 Bonecrusher.45811.6 [57]
.45 Wildey Magnum (using .45 ACP bullet).45211.5Rebated rim
.451 Detonics [58] (.451 Detonics Magnum).45211.5.94223.9Rimless [2]
.454 Casull (.45 Magnum).45211.51.39035.3Rimmed [59]
.460 S&W Magnum .45211.51.80045.7Rimmed
.455 Webley (.455 Webley Revolver Mark 1).45411.5.85421.7Rimmed
.455 Webley (.455 Webley Revolver Mark 2).45411.5.77019.6Rimmed [59]
.45 Schofield (.45 Smith & Wesson/S&W Schofield).45411.51.10027.9Rimmed [59]
.45 Colt Government (.45 Colt Short).45411.51.10027.9Rimmed [53]
.45 Colt (.45 Long Colt).45411.51.29032.81.60040.6Rimmed [53]
.450 Adams (.450 Boxer, .450 Revolver, .450 Short/Corto).45511.6.69017.5Rimmed [59]
.455 Webley Auto .45511.6.93023.6Semi-rimmed [59]
.455 Webley (.455 Revolver, .455 Colt).45511.6.87022.1Rimmed [59]
.458 Devastator .45811.61.40035.6Belted [60]
.458 Maximum (.458 Maximum 1.6").45811.61.60040.6Belted
.476 Enfield (.476 Eley, .476 Revolver, .455/476).47212.0.87022.1Rimmed [59]
.480 Ruger .47612.11.28532.6Rimmed [61]
.475 Wildey Magnum .47512.11.29532.9Rimless [28]
.475 Linebaugh .47612.11.50038.1RimmedGuns Illustrated 1996, p. 9
.475 Linebaugh Long (.475 Maximum).47612.11.61040.9RimmedGuns Illustrated 1996, p. 12
12.3×22mmR (12.3×22 SP) [short Udar revolver cartr.].50112.7Rimmed
12.3×40mmR (12.3×40 SP, STs-110) [std. cartr.].50112.7Rimmed
12.3×50mmR (12.3×50 SP) [Udar revolver cartr.].50112.7Rimmed [62]
.50 GI .50012.7.89922.8Rebated rim
.50 Action Express (.50 AE).50012.71.28532.6Rebated rim [59]
.500 Wyoming Express (.500 WE).50012.71.37034.8Belted
.500 JRH [42] .50012.71.40035.6Rimmed [63]
.500 S&W Special .50012.7Rimmed
.500 S&W Magnum .50012.71.60040.6Rimmed
.500 Bushwhacker .50012.72.45622.9575Semi-rimmed
.50 Remington Navy .50812.9.87522.2Rimmed [59]
.50 Special (.50 Bowen Special).51113.01.16029.5Rimmed
.500 Linebaugh .51113.01.41035.8RimmedGuns Illustrated 1996, p. 9
.500 Tranter [revolvers; Webley, Tranter a.o.].51313.0.77919.81.27632.4Rimmed
.500 Linebaugh Long (.500 Maximum).51113.01.61040.9RimmedGuns Illustrated 1996, p. 13
.505 SuperMag (.510 SuperMag) [using .51 cal projectile].51013.0Rimmed
13mm Gyrojet [1960s Mark I; later .49 cal rocket].51013.0Rimless
.577 Boxer (.577 Eley/Webley) [licensed Tranter design].59415.1Rimmed [64] [65] [66]

Other cartridges used in handguns

Although not originally designed for handguns, several rifle and shotgun cartridges have also been chambered in a number of large handguns, primarily in revolvers like the Phelps Heritage revolver, Century Arms revolver, Thompson/Centre Contender break-open pistol, Magnum Research BFR, and the Pfeifer Zeliska revolvers. These include:

Other cartridges used in handguns
Cartridge nameBullet diameterHandgun applicationSource
inmm
.218 Bee .2245.7
.22 Hornet .2245.7
5.45×39mm .2205.6
  • TOZ-81
  • TP-82
  • Esaul
.223 Remington .2245.7 Taurus Raging 223
*.30 Carbine .3087.8
.30-30 Winchester .3097.8
7.62×39mm .3127.9Nagant M1895 (with cut off bullet)
7.62x54mmR .3127.9self-made revolver (with cut off bullet)
.375 Winchester .3759.5
  • Century Arms Model 100 revolver
  • Phelps Patriot revolver
.410 bore .41010.4 [67]
.444 Marlin .42910.9
.450 Marlin .45811.6 Magnum Research BFR
.45-70 Government .45811.6
.458 Winchester Magnum .45811.6 Pfeifer Zeliska revolver
.50-70 Government .51513.1
  • Century Arms Model 100 revolver
  • Phelps Grizzly revolver
12.7×55mm STs-130 (12.7×55 PS-12 Russian).51113.0 RSh-12 revolver [68]
28-gauge .55014.0 Taurus Raging Judge [69]
.600 Nitro Express .62015.7 Pfeifer Zeliska revolver

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">.454 Casull</span> High power firearm cartridge

The .454 Casull is a firearm cartridge, developed as a wildcat cartridge in 1958 by Dick Casull, Duane Marsh and Jack Fullmer. It was announced in November 1959 by Guns & Ammo magazine. The design is a lengthened and structurally improved .45 Colt case. The wildcat cartridge went mainstream when Freedom Arms brought a single action five-shot revolver chambered in .454 Casull to the retail firearms market in 1983. Ruger followed in 1997, chambering its Super Redhawk in this caliber. Taurus followed with the Raging Bull model in 1998 and the Taurus Raging Judge Magnum in 2010. The .45 Schofield and .45 Colt cartridges can fit into the .454's chambers, but not the other way around because of the lengthened case.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">.45 Colt</span> Revolver cartridge designed by the U.S. Army

The .45 Colt (11.43×33mmR), is a rimmed, straight-walled, handgun cartridge dating to 1872. It was originally a black-powder revolver round developed for the Colt Single Action Army revolver. This cartridge was adopted by the U.S. Army in 1873 and served as an official US military handgun cartridge for 14 years, before being replaced by the .38 Long Colt in 1892.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">.44 Magnum</span> Revolver cartridge designed by Elmer Keith and Smith & Wesson (S&W)

The .44 Remington Magnum, also known as .44 Magnum or 10.9x33mmR, is a rimmed, large-bore cartridge originally designed for revolvers and quickly adopted for carbines and rifles. Despite the ".44" designation, guns chambered for the .44 Magnum round, its parent case, the .44 Special, and its parent case, the .44 Russian all use 0.429 in (10.9 mm) diameter bullets. The .44 Magnum is based on the .44 Special case but lengthened and loaded to higher pressures for greater velocity and energy.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Taurus Armas</span> Brazilian firearm manufacturer

Taurus Armas S.A. is a Brazilian manufacturing conglomerate based in São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Founded in 1924 as a tool and die forging plant, the company now consists of Taurus Armas, its firearm division, as well as other divisions focusing on metals manufacturing, plastics, body armor, helmets and civil construction.

A rim is an external flange that is machined, cast, molded, stamped, or pressed around the bottom of a firearms cartridge. Thus, rimmed cartridges are sometimes called "flanged" cartridges. Almost all cartridges feature an extractor or headspacing rim, in spite of the fact that some cartridges are known as "rimless cartridges". The rim may serve a number of purposes, including providing a lip for the extractor to engage, and sometimes serving to headspace the cartridge.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Moon clip</span> Ring-shaped holder for revolver cartridges

A moon clip is a ring-shaped or star-shaped piece of metal designed to hold multiple cartridges together as a unit, for simultaneous insertion and extraction from a revolver cylinder. Moon clips may either hold an entire cylinder's worth of cartridges together, half a cylinder, or just two neighboring cartridges. The two-cartridge moon clips can be used for those revolvers that have an odd number of loading chambers such as five or seven and also for those revolvers that allow a shooter to mix both rimless and rimmed types of cartridges in one loading of the same cylinder.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">.475 Wildey Magnum</span> Pistol cartridge

The .475 Wildey Magnum is a large semi-automatic pistol cartridge designed for big game hunting in the Wildey pistol.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Charter Arms</span> American manufacturer of revolvers

Charter Arms Co. is an American manufacturer of revolvers. Since its founding in 1964, Charter Arms has produced revolvers chambered in the following calibers: .22 Long Rifle, .22 Winchester Magnum, .32 Long, .32 H&R Magnum, .327 Federal Magnum, .38 Special, .357 Magnum, 9×19mm Parabellum, .40 Smith & Wesson, .41 Remington Magnum, .44 Special, .45 ACP, and .45 Colt.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Snake shot</span> Handgun and rifle cartridge loaded with lead shot

Snake shot, rat shot or dust shot, more formally known as shotshell or canister shot by technicality, refers to handgun and rifle cartridges loaded with lead shot canisters instead of bullets, intended for pest control. As the names suggest, the main targets for such ammunition are serpents, rodents, birds and other pests at very close range.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Snubnosed revolver</span> Type of gun

A snubnosed revolver is a small, medium, or large frame revolver with a short barrel, generally less than 4 inches in length. Smaller such revolvers are often made with "bobbed" or "shrouded" hammers and there are also "hammerless" models ; the point is to allow the gun to be drawn with little risk of it snagging on clothing. Since the external movement of the mechanism is minimal or nil, shrouded and hammerless models may be fired from within clothing. The design of these revolvers compromises range and accuracy at a distance in favor of maneuverability and ease of carry and concealment.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Smith & Wesson Centennial</span> Revolver

S&W Centennial is a family of revolvers made by Smith & Wesson on the "J-Frame". Depending upon caliber, the cylinder holds either 5, 6, 7, or 8 cartridges. Centennials feature a fully enclosed (internal) hammer, which makes them Double Action Only (DAO) firearms. Like all other "J-frame" Smith & Wesson revolvers, they have a swing-out cylinder. Centennial models have been made in different versions like PD "Personal Defense", LS "Lady Smith", and M&P "Military & Police"

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Handgun</span> Short-barreled firearm designed to be held and used with one hand

A handgun is a firearm designed to be usable with only one hand. It is distinguished from a long gun which needs to be held by both hands and braced against the shoulder. Hand guns have a shorter range compared to the long guns. The two most common types of handguns are revolvers and semi-automatic pistols, although other types such as derringers and machine pistols also see infrequent usage.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">.41 Action Express</span>

The .41 Action Express is a pistol cartridge developed in 1986 to reproduce the performance of the .41 Magnum police load in semi-automatic pistols.

The .357/44 Bain & Davis is a centerfire pistol cartridge designed in 1964 by Keith Davis, a partner and pistolsmith of the Bain & Davis Gunshop of San Gabriel, California. The purpose was to give improved velocity over the .357 Magnum by using the larger .44 Magnum case necked down to hold a 0.357 diameter bullet.

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