Ammunition

Best for what? 38 Wadcutter is a flat front bullet used in target competition, that is highly accurate, has low recoil, and clips a neat clean hole in a paper target. Heavier solid bullets are used for hunting, and fast light hollow point bullets are used for defense.

1. M193 - Ball
2. M196 - Trace
3. M199 - Dummy
4. M200 - Blank (Violet tip and 7 petal rose crimp)
5. M855 - Ball (Green Tip)
6. M856 - Tracer (Red Tip)
7. M862 - Short Range Training Ammunition (Plastic with a Blue Tip)

What you are describing could be a rifle that is not loaded, partially loaded or fully loaded, but, does not have a round chambered.

It MAY shoot. It will not shoot well. It may not shoot safely.

The .243 is a necked down .308 cartridge. You are sending a .24 bullet rattling down a .30 barrel. It may or may not trap enough gas to cycle an autoloader. It WILL blow out the case mouth.

Google Alliant Powder on first page click on VIEW THE GUIDE there is the list for reloading.

Ball ammunition has a solid copper or steel jacket (full metal jacket), completely covering the bullets core, usually made of lead. The base, or back of the bullet can be exposed lead. If the base is jacketed in metal as well, it's known as a total metal jacket. The Geneva convention dictates that all small arms ammunition used in armed conflict be ball ammo, in order to avoid the truly catastrophic injuries that result from hollow point, poisoned, cross tipped, soft point,etc...

HP ammo is not illegal in the state of California.

Yes you can. The casing of .38 special shells is a mere .10 inch shorter than a .357 magnum shell and will fire easily in a .357 revolver. I've owned a .357 revolver for years and shoot .38 special ammunition in it all the time.

Side note: Don't try it in a .357 semi-auto pistol (like a Desert Eagle.) At best the gun will jam and at worst it might cause an unsafe pressure build up.

The vast majority of pistol bullets are made from 'bullet metal' which is an alloy of lead/tin and maybe Antimony - The ratio's of these are down to each manufactures choice. (Also by chemical analysis - the manufacturer can be determined)

Some pistol bullets have a copper jacket surrounding the core of lead alloy.

Rifle bullets can be as above or as there is a move from lead, as it is a hazardous substance, some bullets are now solid copper.

Military bullets, can have a varity of core substances; steal is used for armoured pircing rounds (The more correct term for a bullet), wooden bullets was even tried during the second world war.

So a simple answer would really be turned around by saying "What would you like to make them from?"

Regards Rob

Whatever they could fit into it.

Need to know rate of twist and what you are going to use it for.

That phrase was invented by someone trying to scare a lot of people. You might as well call a hammer the same thing. The answer is NO.

32 IIRC

Ball, blank, tracer are a few.

Maybe.

You need to figure out which .38 your Colt is chambered in. .38 Short Colt and .38 Long Colt guns will not chamber a .38 Special. .38 Colt Special is the same as regular .38 Special.

If you cannot tell which caliber it is you need to take it to a gunsmith and have him tell you.

CCI is the manufacturer.

Cascade Cartridges, Inc.

If you mean how many different caliber firearms exist, the answer is thousands. Some are considered obsolete, some are scarce, and some are brand new. A basic reference book, such as Cartridges of the World lists more than 1500 different cartridges.

Both terms describe the diameter of the bullet in decimal parts of an inch. For example, a .357 bullet is 357 thousands of an inch in diameter and the .45 bullet is 45 hundredths of an inch in diameter. These labels of bullets are most common in the United States. Much of the world refers to bullet sizes in metric terms, i.e. 9mm means a bullet that is 9 millimeters in diameter.

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in maritimes The Gun Dealer In NB. they have a web site and ship anywhere

I'd contact GAD Custom Cartridges & see if he could make some for you. He's very reasonable considering some of the other reloaders.

The average rifleman carried two hundred rounds in the American army. This was twenty-five eight round clips for his M1, in five bandoliers. If heavy action was expected he might carry extra, along with a couple of fragmentation grenades.

At night replenishment ammunition would be brought up to the line. Usually the ammo bearers brought a "unit of fire" which was an amount based on two hundred rounds per day, per man.

BARs fired the same rounds but they used a twenty round, detachable box magazine. Carrying ten of these plus a BAR, which weighed nearly twenty pounds, was a load and most BAR men were picked for their large size.

The M1 rifle and the BAR were the most common weapons in an infantry squad. The M1 carbine was also a .30 caliber weapon but fired a different, less powerful round than the .30-06 of the M1 rifle and the BAR. The carbine fired "thirty shorts" which also came in twenty or thirty round box magazines. Men in the lines did not favor the carbine because it lacked stopping power as compared to the M1, and also, because it marked them as potentially being an officer, and thus made them more of a target. The carbine had been intended to replace the officers sidearm. Most officers quickly got rid of it and got a rifle, and also quit wearing any insignia of rank. Saluting was heavily discouraged on the line. The officers did not want to stand out.

The Thompson submachine gun saw some use, but it was a complex weapon, difficult and expensive to manufacture, and hard to maintain in the field. The army developed the M2 "grease gun" which was a .45 caliber weapon like the Thompson and took the same twenty round box magazines. The M2 cost the army less than $15 each. Both these submachine guns fired the same rounds as the standard sidearm, the Model 1911A automatic pistol. Pistols were coveted more for the mental security they gave, and they were of little practical use.

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Marlin makes one.

Marlin and Ruger make ones that do