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The .260 Remington The .260 Remington started its life as a wildcat cartridge called the 6.5-08, and was eventually released as a commercial cartridge by Remington in 1997. Many wildcat cartridges based on the .308 Winchester case had existed for years before Remington standardized this round...

A super magnum is a longer and/or more powerful version of a "magnum" cartridge. The term "super magnum" typically refers to a handgun cartridge. This was achieved by lengthening the cases to both increase powder capacity and boost operating pressures. The most widespread of these cartridges...

The .375 H&H Magnum The .375 H&H Magnum also known as .375 Holland & Holland Magnum is a medium-bore rifle cartridge introduced in 1912 by London based gunmaker Holland & Holland. The .375 H&H cartridge featured a belt to ensure the correct headspace, which otherwise might be unreliable, given...

The 6.5mm Grendel The 6.5mm Grendel (6.5×39mm) is an intermediate cartridge jointly designed by British-American armourer Bill Alexander, competitive shooter Arne Brennan (of Houston, Texas) and Lapua ballistician Janne Pohjoispää, as a low-recoil, high-precision rifle cartridge specifically...

The .218 Bee The .218 Bee is a .22 caliber centerfire rifle cartridge designed for varmint hunting by Winchester in 1937. The cartridge was originally chambered in the Winchester Model 65 lever-action rifles, which may have ultimately led to its lack of popularity. The cartridge is named for...

The .243 Winchester The .243 Winchester (6×52mm) is a popular sporting rifle cartridge. Initially designed as a target/varmint round, it may be used for animals such as coyotes, blacktail deer, whitetail deer, mule deer, pronghorns, and wild hogs. The .243 is based on a necked down .308...

The 6.5×47mm Lapua The 6.5×47mm Lapua is a rimless bottlenecked rifle cartridge that was developed specifically for 328–1,094 yd. (300–1,000 m) competition shooting by ammunition maker Nammo Lapua and the Swiss rifle manufacturer Grünig & Elmiger AG in 2005. The 6.5×47mm Lapua has no direct...

The .32-20 Winchester he .32-20 Winchester, also known as .32 WCF (Winchester center fire), was the first small-game lever-action cartridge that Winchester produced. It was initially introduced as a black-powder cartridge in 1882 for small-game, varmint hunting, and deer. Colt produced a...

The 9.3×62mm Mauser The 9.3×62mm (also known as 9.3×62mm Mauser) is a rimless, bottlenecked rifle cartridge designed in 1905 by German gunmaker Otto Bock. It is suitable for hunting medium to large game animals in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. The 9.3×62mm was designed to fit into...

The 7.62 mm Nagant The 7.62mm Nagant (also known as 7.62×38mmR) is an ammunition cartridge designed for use in the Russian Nagant M1895 revolver. A small number of experimental submachine guns (e.g., Tokarev 1927), designed by Fedor Tokarev, were also produced in a 7.62 mm Nagant...

Exactly what I’m finding with my new XDM 45 also like you mentioned I didn’t notice this while shooting the gun last week as I was dropping an empty mag, when I got home and cleaned the gun and then loaded it, one in the chamber and a full mag I couldn’t depress the mag release without pushing...

The .32 H&R Magnum The .32 H&R Magnum is a rimmed cartridge designed for use in revolvers. It was developed in 1984 as a joint venture between Harrington & Richardson and Federal Premium Ammunition. The .32 H&R Magnum is produced by lengthening the .32 S&W Long case by .155", to 1.075". The...

The .250-3000 Savage (also known as the .250 Savage) is a dual-purpose intermediate-range rifle cartridge created by Charles Newton in 1915. It was designed to be used in the Savage Model 99 hammerless lever-action. The name comes from its original manufacturer, Savage Arms and the fact that...

Great pick this week Talyn, thanks

The .460 S&W Magnum The .460 S&W Magnum round is a powerful revolver cartridge designed for long-range handgun hunting in the Smith & Wesson Model 460 revolver. It is also the most versatile big bore revolver being able to fire four standardized cartridges, as well as lesser known rimmed and...

The .300 Savage The .300 Savage cartridge is a rimless, .30 caliber rifle cartridge developed by Savage Arms in 1920. It was designed to replace the less powerful .303 Savage in their popular Model 99 hammerless lever-action, and intended to duplicate the performance of the original U.S. Ball...

The .22-250 Remington The .22-250 Remington is a very high-velocity (capable of reaching over 4000 feet per second), short action, .22 caliber rifle cartridge primarily used for varmint hunting and small game hunting. This cartridge is also sometimes known as the .22 Varminter or the .22...

The .30-06 Springfield The .30-06 Springfield cartridge (pronounced "thirty-ought-six"), 7.62×63mm in metric notation and called ".30 Gov't '06" by Winchester, was introduced to the United States Army in 1906 and later standardized; it remained in use until the late 1970s. The ".30" refers to...

The 7.62x25 Tokarev The 7.62×25mm Tokarev cartridge (designated as the 7.62 × 25 Tokarev by the C.I.P.) is a Russian rimless bottlenecked pistol cartridge widely used in former Soviet states and in China, among other countries. The cartridge has since been replaced in most capacities by the...

The .257 Roberts The .257 Roberts, also known as .257 Bob, is a medium-powered .25 caliber rifle cartridge. It has been described as the best compromise between the low recoil and flat trajectory of smaller calibers such as the 5 mm (.22") and 6 mm (.24"), and the higher energy but harder...