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2. Handloading - Wikipedia

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   Handloading. Components of a modern bottleneck rifle cartridge. Top-to-bottom: Copper-jacketed bullet, smokeless powder granules, rimless brass case, Boxer primer. Handloading, or reloading, is the practice of making firearm cartridges by manually assembling the individual components ( metallic / polymer case, primer, propellant and projectile ...

3. Shotgun cartridge - Wikipedia

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   The .410 bore is the smallest shotgun size which is widely available commercially in the United States. For size comparison purposes, the .410, when measured by gauge, would be around 67- or 68-gauge (it is 67.62-gauge), The .410 is often mistakenly assigned 36-gauge. The 36 gauge had a 0.506" bore. Reloading components are still available.

4. Gas-operated reloading - Wikipedia

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   Gas-operated reloading. Gas-operated firearm (long-stroke piston, e.g. AK-47 ). 1) gas port, 2) piston head, 3) rod, 4) bolt, 5) bolt carrier, 6) spring. Gas-operation is a system of operation used to provide energy to operate locked breech, autoloading firearms. In gas-operation, a portion of high-pressure gas from the cartridge being fired is ...

5. Hornady - Wikipedia

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   Hornady Manufactures 6.5 Creedmoor cartridges, bullets and reloading dies. 6.5 PRC. The 6.5 PRC (Precision Rifle Cartridge) was initially designed by George Gardner of GA Precision and Hornady in 2013 and released at the 2018 SHOT Show. It is essentially a more powerful and flatter-shooting version of the 6.5mm Creedmor and uses the same bullet ...

6. Cartridge (firearms) - Wikipedia

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   Design Purpose. The cartridge was invented specifically for breechloading firearms. Prior to its invention, the projectiles and propellant were carried separately and had to be individually loaded via the muzzle into the gun barrel before firing, then have a separate ignitor compound (from a burning slow match, to a small charge of gunpowder in a flash pan, to a metallic percussion cap mounted ...

7. Primer (firearms) - Wikipedia

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   Primer (firearms) In firearms and artillery, the primer ( / ˈpraɪmər /) is the chemical and/or device responsible for initiating the propellant combustion that will propel the projectiles out of the gun barrel . In early black powder guns such as muzzleloaders, the primer was essentially the same chemical as the main propellant (albeit ...

8. Hodgdon Powder Company - Wikipedia

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   Olin began retail distribution of Winchester-Western ball powders for pistol and shotgun loading in 1960; and Winchester-Western rifle ball powders followed in 1968. Hodgdon distributed spherical powders HS-5 and HS-6 for shotguns and H110, H335, H380, H414, and H450 for rifles.

9. Action (firearms) - Wikipedia

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   In firearms terminology, an action is the functional mechanism of a breech-loading firearm that handles (loads, locks, fires, extracts, and ejects) the ammunition cartridges, or the method by which that mechanism works. [1] Actions are technically not present on muzzleloaders, as all those are single-shot firearms with a closed off breech with ...