magazine
1. A periodical publication containing articles and illustrations, typically covering a particular subject or area of interest. 2. A chamber for holding a supply of cartridges to be fed automatically to the breech of a gun.
A rifle with a 5.56x45 chamber can utilise .223 Remington cartridges. A rifle with a dedicated .223 Remington chamber cannot accommodate 5.56x45 cartridges. A rifle with a .223 Wylde chamber can accommodate .223 Wylde, .223 Remington, and 5.56x45, but neither a rifle with a 5.56x45 or a .223 Remington chamber can accommodate the .223 Wylde cartridge.
Plus one in the chamber means that in addition to however many cartridges are in the magazine, there is one more loaded in the gun.
The Ranch models can shoot 5.56x45 cartridges, including tracers. The Target models have a dedicated .223 chamber, and cannot shoot 5.56x45 cartridges.
Open the bolt, visually inspect chamber for presence of cartridges.
Remove magazine, load cartridges into magazine, replace magazine, operate slide to chamber cartridge.
The G3 rifle can chamber the 7.62x51 NATO cartridge, and it could chamber the .308 Winchester if it needed to. No other cartridges are compatible with this rifle.
Cartridges are loaded into a magazine. In the case of a single shot firearm, they are loaded directly into the chamber.
Open the bolt, visually inspect chamber for presence of cartridges.
Cartridges are loaded into the magazine of he rifle by pressing them down into the magazine. Drawing back the bolt and releasing it will strip the top cartridge from the magazine and load the cartridge into the chamber.
One in the chamber. The tube magazine can hold 4 or more additional cartriges depending on the length of the barrel and tube magazine.
Yes. Shotshells are fed from the magazine tube to the chamber. When the last shotshell is fed from the magazine to the chamber, the magazine is empty, but the shotgun remains loaded.