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38 Special to 357 Magnum, 44 Special to 44 Magnum: The Two Ladders That Built Modern RevolversThe two most important revolver cartridges of the twentieth century were both built the same way: take an existing Special, lengthen the case, and load it to a pressure the old guns could not take. Understanding that pattern explains most of what a revolver shooter needs to know about interchangeability. Each ladder has two rungs that matter here. The .38 ladder .38 special ammo is the 1898...0 Reacties 0 aandelen 399 Views 0 voorbeeldPlease log in to like, share and comment!
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The Mid-Bore Handgun Calibers Everyone Recognizes — A Plain-English MapMost of this series has lived on the bottom shelf. This set is the top shelf: the .38, .357, .40 and .44-caliber handgun rounds that sell by the case, plus the brand lines that compete inside the most popular of them. Familiar doesn't mean simple — nearly every cartridge here is a modification of another one on the same list. Reading them as families rather than as a price list is the...0 Reacties 0 aandelen 2K Views 0 voorbeeld
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The Gas-Seal Revolver, the Toggle Pistol and the Box Magazine: How Each Case Gets FedHow a cartridge headspaces — what stops it at the right depth when the action closes — decides what it can safely feed. This set contains ordinary rimless autoloader rounds, one semi-rimmed transitional design, and a revolver cartridge that works on a principle nothing else in production shares. Sorting by mechanism prevents most of the expensive mistakes. The revolver with no...0 Reacties 0 aandelen 3K Views 0 voorbeeld
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Everything Between .25 and 10mm That Isn’t 9mm Luger — A Plain-English MapThe 9mm Luger is so dominant that the cartridges around it get read as footnotes. They aren't. This set spans a gas-seal revolver adopted in 1895, the pocket pistols John Browning designed for FN, two rounds engineered to beat a competition rulebook, and the 10mm Auto with five of the brands that load it. Sorting them by the problem each one solved makes the shelf legible. Service rounds from...0 Reacties 0 aandelen 438 Views 0 voorbeeld
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Revolver, Autoloader or Conversion: Three Kinds of .45 That Don’t InterchangeBore diameter tells you almost nothing about whether a cartridge will work in a given gun. The base of the case does: a rim for a revolver cylinder, no rim for a magazine, and in a few cases a deliberately awkward length that keeps a hot round out of the wrong chamber. Sorting this set by that one feature takes a minute and prevents most of the expensive errors. Rimmed, for a revolver cylinder...0 Reacties 0 aandelen 462 Views 0 voorbeeld
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Ten Ways to Get More Out of a Big-Bore Handgun — A Plain-English MapAsk ten cartridge designers across a century and a half how to build a harder-hitting handgun round and you get ten different engineering answers. This list is nearly a live demonstration: frontier lever-gun rounds, a converted-1911 cartridge, custom-shop revolver magnums and a rifle-caliber round that happens to be catalogued with the handguns. Sorting them by the approach each one took makes...0 Reacties 0 aandelen 532 Views 0 voorbeeld
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Short, Long, Magnum, Maximum: Decoding a Vintage Cartridge NameCartridge names accumulated over a century and a half of different companies, countries and marketing departments. The result looks like a system and isn't one — the same word can mean a pressure step in one family and a case length in another. Decoding a handful of patterns covers nearly everything in this series. Magnum versus Maximum 41 magnum ammo follows the familiar pattern: a...0 Reacties 0 aandelen 618 Views 0 voorbeeld
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