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Centerfire ammunition. Two rounds of .357 Magnum, a centerfire cartridge; notice the circular primer in the center. A centre-fire (or centrefire) is a type of metallic cartridge used in firearms, where the primer is located at the center of the base of its casing (i.e. "case head"). Unlike rimfire cartridges, the centerfire primer is typically ...
List of rifle cartridges, by primer type, calibre and name. ... .300 Precision Rifle Cartridge.300-221.300 AAC Blackout.300 H&H Magnum.300 Blaser Magnum
2,420 ft/s (740 m/s) 2,608 ft⋅lbf (3,536 J) Source (s): Barnes & Amber 1972. The .33 Winchester Center Fire (colloquially .33 Winchester, .33 WCF, [2] or .33 Win) is a centerfire rifle cartridge designed and produced from 1902 to 1940 by Winchester Repeating Arms Company for their Model 1886 lever-action rifle.
However, the large rimfire cartridges were soon replaced by centerfire cartridges, which could safely handle higher pressures. [47] [48] In 1867, the British war office adopted the Eley–Boxer metallic centerfire cartridge case in the Pattern 1853 Enfield rifles, which were converted to Snider-Enfield breech-loaders on the Snider principle ...
List of Winchester Center Fire cartridges. List of Winchester Center Fire rifle cartridges. More commonly known as WCF, it is a family of cartridges designed by Winchester Repeating Arms Company. [1] There are many other Winchester cartridges that do not carry the WCF moniker, such as the .300 WSM. .270 Winchester, and .300 Winchester Magnum.
The .22 Hornet or 5.6×36mmR Hornet[2] is a varminting, small-game hunting, survival and competition centerfire rifle cartridge commercially introduced in 1930. It is considerably more powerful than the rimfire .22 WMR and the .17 HMR, achieving higher velocity with a bullet twice the weight of the .17 HMR bullet.
The .223 Remington (designated 223 Remington by SAAMI [4] and 223 Rem. by the C.I.P. [5]) is a rimless, bottlenecked, centerfire intermediate cartridge.It was developed in 1957 by Remington Arms and Fairchild Industries for the U.S. Continental Army Command of the United States Army as part of a project to create a small-caliber, high-velocity firearm.
The .32-20 Winchester / 7.94x33mmR, also known as .32 WCF (Winchester center fire), was the first small-game lever-action cartridge that Winchester produced. [4] It was initially introduced as a black-powder cartridge in 1882 for small-game, varmint hunting, and deer. [5][6] Colt produced a single-action revolver chambered for this cartridge a ...