Common handgun cartridges. Left to right: 3 inch 12 ga magnum shotgun shell, AA battery (for size comparison),
.454 Casull,
.45 Winchester Magnum,
.44 Remington Magnum,
.357 Magnum,
.38 Special,
.45 ACP,
.38 Super,
9 mm Luger,
.32 ACP,
.22 LR
The following is a flat list of handgun cartridges, loosely in order of increasing caliber:
Handgun cartridges
- 2.34mm - rimfire round used in MTH's Swiss Mini Gun.
- 2.7mm Kolibri - the smallest commercially available centerfire cartridge ever made
- 3mm Kolibri
- 4mm Practice Cartridge GECO
- 4mm Practice Cartridge M. 20
- 4.25mm Liliput
- .17 Mach 2
- .17 Hornady Magnum Rimfire
- .17-357 RG
- 4.5x26mm
- 4.6x30mm
- 5mm Bergmann
- 5mm Bergmann Rimless
- 5mm Clement
- 5.5mm Velo Dog
- .22 BB
- .22 CB
- .22 Short
- .22 Long
- .22 Long Rifle
- .22 WMR (.22 Magnum)
- .22 Reed Express
- .22 Remington Jet (.22 Jet, .22 Centerfire Magnum)
- .221 Remington Fireball
- .224 BOZ
- 5.45x18mm (5.45mm PSM)
- 5.7x28mm
- 5.8x21mm (5.8mm Chinese pistol)
- .25 ACP (6.35 mm Browning)
- 6.5mm Bergmann
- .25 NAA
- .256 Winchester Magnum
- 7mm Nambu
- 7mm Bench Rest Remington (7mm BR)
- 7.65mm Brev.
- 7.62x25mm Tokarev
- 7.62x38mmR (7.62x38mm Nagant)
- 7.62x42mm SP-4 (a Russian cartridge with an internal piston for silent operation)
- 7.63x25mm Mauser
- 7.65x25mm Borchardt
- 7.65mm Roth-Sauer (7.65mm Frommer)
- 7.65x22mm Parabellum (7.65x22mm Luger, .30 Luger)
- 7.65mm Longue (7.65mm MAS, 7.65mm Long)
- 7.65mm Mannlicher (7.63mm Mannlicher in Austria, 7.65x21mm in the United States)
- .30 Wildey (.30 Wildey Magnum)
- .32 ACP (7.65x17mm Browning SR)
- 7.62x17mm Type 64 (7.62x17mm, 7.62x17mm Chinese)
- .32 NAA
- .32 S&W
- .32 S&W Long (.32 Colt New Police)
- .320 Revolver
- .32 Short Colt
- .32 Long Colt
- .32 H&R Magnum
- .327 Federal Magnum
- .32-20 Winchester (.32 WCF, .32-20 Marlin, .32 Colt Lightning)
- 8mm French Ordnance (8mm Lebel Revolver)
- 8mm Gasser (Rast-Gasser M1898)
- 8mm Roth-Steyr
- 8x22mm Nambu
- .35 S&W Auto (.35 Automatic)
- 8.5mm Mars
- .38 Short Colt
- .38 Long Colt
- .38 S&W (.38 Colt New Police, .38 Super Police)
- .38 Calibre
- .380 Revolver
- .38 Special (9x29mmR)
- .356 TSW
- .357 AutoMag
- .357 Magnum (9x31mmR, .353 Casull [hunting load by CorBon for Freedom Arms revolver, 180 gr @ 1650 ft/s[1]])
- .357 Super Magnum
- .357 Remington Maximum
- .360 DW (.360 Dan Wesson)
- .357 Peterbilt (.357 Wildey Magnum)
- .357/44 Bain & Davis
- 9x18mm Makarov
- 9x18mm Police (9mm Ultra)
- 9mm Browning Long (9x20mm Browning SR)
- 9mm Glisenti
- 9x19mm Parabellum (9mm Luger, 9x19mm NATO)
- 9mm Federal
- 9x21mm IMI
- 9x21mm Gyurza (9x21mm SP-10)
- 9mm Action Express (9mm AE)
- 9x23mm Steyr
- 9mm Largo (9mm Bergmann-Bayard, 9x23mm Largo)
- 9mm Super Cooper (9x22mm Super Cooper)
- 9x23mm Winchester
- 9mm Mars
- 9mm Mauser Export (Export caliber for C96)
- 9mm Winchester Magnum
- 9x25mm Dillon
- 9x25mm Super Auto G
- 9x30mm Magnum (9mm Dillon Magnum)
- .380 ACP (9x17mm Browning Short)
- .38 AMU (rimless .38 Special)
- .38 Auto (.38 ACP)
- .38 Super Auto
- .38 Super Comp (a rimless .38 Super development)
- .38/.45 Clerke (wildcat developed in the 1970s by Bo Clerke)
- .38 Casull
- .357 SIG
- .357/45 Grizzly Win Mag
- 9.8 mm Auto Colt
- .375 Super Magnum
- .38-40 Winchester (.38 WCF)
- .400 Colt Magnum
- .400 Corbon
- .40 G&A (.40 Guns & Ammo, a cut-down .30 Remington with .40" bullets)
- .40 Smith & Wesson (.40 Auto, 10 x 21 mm)
- .40 Super
- .401 Herter Magnum
- .401 Special (.401 Winchester Self-Loading trimmed to 1.218" with .38-40 WCF bullets)[2]
- 10mm Auto
- 10mm Magnum
- 10.4mm Italian Revolver
- .41 Action Express
- .41 Avenger
- .41 JMP (.41 Jurras, .41 AutoMag)
- .41 Long Colt (.41 Colt, .41 LC)
- .41 Colt Special (developed by Remington in 1932, 1.26" case, 210 gr, 900 ft/s)[3]
- .41 Special (shortened .41 Magnum wildcat, trimmed to .44 Special length, 220 gr, 900-1200 ft/s)[4]
- .41 Remington Magnum
- .41 Wildey Magnum (10mm Wildey Magnum)
- .414 JDJ
- .414 Super Magnum see: german Wiki-version: [1]
- .427 ZMR (caseless cartridge designed by Angel Arms for their .427 ZMR pistol)
- .44 American (predecessor to the .44 S&W Russian)
- .44 Bulldog
- .44 Colt
- .44 Special
- .44 S&W Russian
- .44 Remington Magnum
- .44 Auto Mag
- .440 Cor-Bon
- .442 Webley (.442 Revolver Centre Fire, 10.5x17mmR, .442 Kurz, 44 Webley, or .442 R.I.C.)
- .44 Wildey Magnum (11mm Wildey Magnum)
- .44 Henry rimfire (11x23R)
- .44-40 Winchester (.44 WCF)
- .445_SuperMag (.4295 RIC)
- 11.75mm Montenegrin (11mm Austrian Gasser, 11.25x36Rmm Montenegrin)
- 11mm French Ordnance
- 11mm German Service
- 11.35mm Schouboe (11.35x18mm)
- .45 Schofield (.45 S&W Schofield, .45 S&W)
- .45 Colt
- .45 ICP (.45 caseless cartridge designed by Angel Arms for their Gun One pistol)
- .45 J-Mag (wildcat developed in the 1970s by Lee Jurras)
- .45 Super
- .450 Revolver (.450 Adams)
- .45 Webley
- .455 Webley (.455 Webley Mk I, .455 Revolver, .455 Colt, .455 Colt Mk I; also identical to the .476 Enfield, .476 Eley, or .476/.455)
- .455 Webley Mk II (.455 Revolver Mk II, .455 Colt Mk II, .455 Eley)
- .455 Webley Automatic
- .45 GAP
- .45 ACP (.45 Auto)
- .45 Hirtenberger Patronen (.45 Italian, .45 Automatic Short)
- .45 Auto Rim
- .45 S&W
- .45 Mars Short
- .45 Mars Long
- .45 Wildey Magnum
- .45 Winchester Magnum
- .450 SMC (.450 Triton)
- .450 Magnum Express
- .451 Detonics Magnum
- .454 Casull
- .455 SuperMag
- .458 Devastator
- .458 Maximum (a 1.6" belted cartridge derived from the .458 Winchester)
- .458 Linebaugh Maximum
- .460 S&W Magnum
- .460 Rowland
- .475 Linebaugh
- .475 Maximum
- .475 Wildey Magnum
- .480 Ruger
- .476 Enfield (.476 Enfield Mk3, .476 Eley, or .476/.455)
- 12mm Gyrojet
- 12.5x40mm STs-110 (proprietary Russian revolver cartridge, derived from 32-gauge shotshell)
- .499 Linebaugh
- .50 Special (.50 Bowen Special, same case length as .44 Special, 300-400 gr @ 700-900 ft/s [4" bbl.] on Ruger Redhawk frame)[5]
- .50 Action Express
- .500 S&W Special
- .500 S&W Magnum
- .50 Remington (M71 Army)
- .50 GI
- .500 Linebaugh
- .500 Maximum
- .500 Wyoming Express (.500 WE)
- .510 SuperMag
- 13mm Gyrojet
- .577 Boxer (.577 Eley, .577 Webley)
Other cartridges used in repeating 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, and the Magnum Research BFR. These include:
See also
References
- ^ Taffin, John. Big-Bore Sixguns. Iola, WI: Krause, 1997, p. 235.
- ^ Taffin, John. Big-Bore Sixguns. Iola, WI: Krause, 1997, p. 91.
- ^ Taffin, John. Big-Bore Sixguns. Iola, WI: Krause, 1997, p. 90.
- ^ Taffin, John. Big-Bore Sixguns. Iola, WI: Krause, 1997, p. 94.
- ^ Taffin, John. Big-Bore Sixguns. Iola, WI: Krause, 1997, p. 302.
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