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There are far more than 2 types of rifle cartridges. You might distinguish between rim fire and center fire, between rimmed and rimless, or straight walled and bottle necked cartridges. There are also long action and short action, target and hunting and metric and Imperial measurements.

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Necked and straight walled.. 308 is necked and 45-70 is straight walled. There are also magnum, belted magnum and rimfire.

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