.243 Winchester, the Glossary
The.243 Winchester (6×52mm) is a popular sporting rifle cartridge.[1]
Table of Contents
59 relations: American Rifleman, ArmaLite AR-10, Black-tailed deer, Bolt action, Browning Arms Company, Browning BAR, Browning BLR, Copper, Deer hunting, Deer stalking, Delta L problem, Federal Premium Ammunition, Field & Stream, Gun Digest, Harvard University, Henry Repeating Arms, Lead, Lever action, List of firearms, List of rifle cartridges, Los Angeles Police Department, Metallic silhouette shooting, Monolithic column, Mule deer, Muzzle brake, Outdoor Life, P. O. Ackley, Pronghorn, Pump action, Recoil, Remington Model 7600, Rifle, Sectional density, Semi-automatic firearm, SWAT, Table of handgun and rifle cartridges, The National Archives (United Kingdom), The New York Times, U.S. state, United Kingdom, Varmint hunting, Velocity, White-tailed deer, Wildcat cartridge, Winchester Model 70, .22 CHeetah, .22-250 Remington, .223 Remington, .243 Winchester Super Short Magnum, .25-06 Remington, ... Expand index (9 more) »
American Rifleman
American Rifleman is a United States-based monthly shooting and firearms interest publication, owned by the National Rifle Association of America (NRA).
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ArmaLite AR-10
The ArmaLite AR-10 is a 7.62×51mm NATO battle rifle designed by Eugene Stoner in the late 1950s and manufactured by ArmaLite (then a division of the Fairchild Aircraft Corporation).
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Black-tailed deer
Two forms of black-tailed deer or blacktail deer that occupy coastal woodlands in the Pacific Northwest of North America are subspecies of the mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus).
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Bolt action
Bolt-action is a type of manual firearm action that is operated by directly manipulating the bolt via a bolt handle, most commonly placed on the right-hand side of the firearm (as most users are right-handed).
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Browning Arms Company
Browning Arms Company (originally John Moses and Matthew Sandefur Browning Company) is an American marketer of firearms and fishing gear.
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Browning BAR
The Browning BAR is a gas-operated, semi-automatic rifle produced by the Browning Arms Company in Belgium.
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Browning BLR
The Browning BLR is a lever-action rifle manufactured for Browning Arms Company by Miroku Firearms in Japan.
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Copper
Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29.
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Deer hunting
Deer hunting is hunting deer for meat and sport, and, formerly, for producing buckskin hides, an activity which dates back tens of thousands of years.
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Deer stalking
Deer stalking, or simply stalking, is a British term for the stealthy pursuit of deer on foot to hunt for meat, leisure, trophy, or to control their numbers.
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Delta L problem
The delta L problem (ΔL problem) refers to certain firearm chambers and the incompatibility of some ammunition made for that chamber. .243 Winchester and delta L problem are pistol and rifle cartridges.
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Federal Premium Ammunition
Federal Premium Ammunition is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vista Outdoor, located in Anoka, Minnesota.
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Field & Stream
Field & Stream (F&S for short) is an American magazine focusing on sport hunting, recreational fishing and other outdoor activities.
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Gun Digest
Gun Digest Media is an American publisher specializing in firearms, shooting, ammunition reloading and concealed carry magazines and books.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Henry Repeating Arms
Henry Repeating Arms is a firearms manufacturing company.
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Lead
Lead is a chemical element; it has symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.
Lever action
The toggle-link action used in the iconic Winchester Model 1873 rifle, one of the most famous lever-action firearms A lever action is a type of action for repeating firearms that uses a manually operated cocking handle located around the trigger guard area (often incorporating it) that pivots forward to move the bolt via internal linkages, which will feed and extract cartridges into and out of the chamber, and cock the firing pin mechanism.
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List of firearms
This is an extensive list of small arms—including pistols, revolvers, submachine guns, shotguns, battle rifles, assault rifles, sniper rifles, machine guns, personal defense weapons, carbines, designated marksman rifles, multiple-barrel firearms, grenade launchers, underwater firearms, anti-tank rifles, anti-materiel rifles and any other variants.
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List of rifle cartridges
List of rifle cartridges, by primer type, calibre and name.
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Los Angeles Police Department
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), officially known as the City of Los Angeles Police Department, is the primary law enforcement agency of Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Metallic silhouette shooting is a group of target shooting disciplines that involves shooting at steel targets representing game animals at varying distances, seeking to knock the metal target over.
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Monolithic column
A monolithic column or single-piece column is a large column of which the shaft is made from a single piece of stone instead of in vertical sections.
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Mule deer
The mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) is a deer indigenous to western North America; it is named for its ears, which are large like those of the mule.
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Muzzle brake
A muzzle brake or recoil compensator is a device connected to, or a feature integral (ported barrel) to the construction of, the muzzle or barrel of a firearm or cannon that is intended to redirect a portion of propellant gases to counter recoil and unwanted muzzle rise.
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Outdoor Life
Outdoor Life is an outdoors magazine about camping, fishing, hunting, and survival.
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P. O. Ackley
Parker Otto Ackley (May 25, 1903 – August 23, 1989) was an American gunsmith, barrel maker, author, columnist, and wildcat cartridge developer.
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Pronghorn
The pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) is a species of artiodactyl (even-toed, hoofed) mammal indigenous to interior western and central North America.
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Pump action
Pump action is a type of manual firearm action that is operated by moving a sliding handguard on the gun's forestock.
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Recoil
Recoil (often called knockback, kickback or simply kick) is the rearward thrust generated when a gun is being discharged.
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Remington Model 7600
The Remington Model 7600 is a series of pump-action centerfire rifles made by Remington Arms.
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Rifle
A rifle is a long-barreled firearm designed for accurate shooting and higher stopping power, with a barrel that has a helical or spiralling pattern of grooves (rifling) cut into the bore wall.
Sectional density
Sectional density (often abbreviated SD) is the ratio of an object's mass to its cross sectional area with respect to a given axis.
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Semi-automatic firearm
A semi-automatic firearm, also called a self-loading or autoloading firearm (fully automatic and selective fire firearms are also variations on self-loading firearms), is a repeating firearm whose action mechanism automatically loads a following round of cartridge into the chamber and prepares it for subsequent firing, but requires the shooter to manually actuate the trigger in order to discharge each shot.
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SWAT
In the United States, a SWAT (special weapons and tactics) team is a generic term for a police tactical unit.
Table of handgun and rifle cartridges
This is a table of selected pistol/submachine gun and rifle/machine gun cartridges by common name. .243 Winchester and table of handgun and rifle cartridges are pistol and rifle cartridges.
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The National Archives (United Kingdom)
The National Archives (TNA; Yr Archifau Cenedlaethol) is a non-ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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Varmint hunting
Varmint hunting or varminting is the practice of hunting vermin — generally small/medium-sized wild mammals or birds — as a means of pest control, rather than as games for food or trophy.
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Velocity
Velocity is the speed in combination with the direction of motion of an object.
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White-tailed deer
The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), also known commonly as the whitetail and the Virginia deer, is a medium-sized species of deer native to North America, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru and Bolivia, where it predominately inhabits high mountain terrains of the Andes.
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Wildcat cartridge
A wildcat cartridge, often shortened to wildcat, is a custom-made cartridge for which ammunition and/or firearms are not mass-produced.
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Winchester Model 70
The Winchester Model 70 is a bolt-action sporting rifle.
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.22 CHeetah
The.22 CHeetah (both C and H are upper-case, referring to Carmichel / Huntington) is a.22 wildcat cartridge developed in the 1970s or 1980s by Jim Carmichel and Fred Huntington. .243 Winchester and .22 CHeetah are pistol and rifle cartridges.
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.22-250 Remington
The.22-250 Remington is a very high-velocity, short action,.22 caliber rifle cartridge primarily used for varmint hunting and small game hunting. .243 Winchester and .22-250 Remington are pistol and rifle cartridges.
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.223 Remington
The.223 Remington (designated 223 Remington by SAAMI and 223 Rem. by the C.I.P.) is a rimless, bottlenecked, centerfire intermediate cartridge. .243 Winchester and .223 Remington are pistol and rifle cartridges.
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.243 Winchester Super Short Magnum
The 243 Winchester Super Short Magnum or 243 WSSM is a rifle cartridge introduced in 2003. .243 Winchester and .243 Winchester Super Short Magnum are pistol and rifle cartridges.
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.25-06 Remington
The.25-06 Remington was a wildcat cartridge for nearly half a century before being standardized by Remington in 1969. .243 Winchester and .25-06 Remington are pistol and rifle cartridges.
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.257 Roberts
The.257 Roberts, also known as.257 Bob, is a medium-powered.25 caliber rifle cartridge. .243 Winchester and .257 Roberts are pistol and rifle cartridges.
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.30-06 Springfield
The.30-06 Springfield cartridge (pronounced "thirty-aught-six"), 7.62×63mm in metric notation, and called the.30 Gov't '06 by Winchester, was introduced to the United States Army in 1906 and later standardized; it remained in military use until the late 1970s. .243 Winchester and .30-06 Springfield are pistol and rifle cartridges.
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.30-30 Winchester
The.30-30 Winchester / 7.8x51mmR (officially named the.30 Winchester Center Fire or.30 WCF) cartridge was first marketed for the Winchester Model 1894 lever-action rifle in 1895. .243 Winchester and .30-30 Winchester are pistol and rifle cartridges and Winchester Repeating Arms Company cartridges.
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.308 Winchester
The.308 Winchester is a smokeless powder rimless bottlenecked rifle cartridge widely used for hunting, target shooting, police, military, and personal protection applications globally. .243 Winchester and .308 Winchester are pistol and rifle cartridges and Winchester Repeating Arms Company cartridges.
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6 mm caliber
This is a list of firearm cartridges which have bullets of a caliber between and. .243 Winchester and 6 mm caliber are pistol and rifle cartridges.
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6mm Lee Navy
The 6mm Lee Navy (6×60mmSR), also known as the 6mm U.S.N.Hanson, Jim, The 6mm U.S.N. - Ahead Of Its Time, Rifle Magazine, Vol. .243 Winchester and 6mm Lee Navy are pistol and rifle cartridges.
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6mm Remington
The 6mm Remington rifle cartridge, originally introduced in 1955 by Remington Arms Company as the.244 Remington, is based on a necked down.257 Roberts cartridge (itself a necked-down 7×57mm Mauser) using a.24/6mm bullet. .243 Winchester and 6mm Remington are pistol and rifle cartridges.
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7.62×51mm NATO
The 7.62×51mm NATO (official NATO nomenclature 7.62 NATO) is a rimless, straight walled, bottlenecked rifle cartridge. .243 Winchester and 7.62×51mm NATO are pistol and rifle cartridges.
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7mm-08 Remington
The 7mm-08 Remington is a rifle cartridge that is almost a direct copy of a wildcat cartridge developed around 1958 known as the 7mm/308. .243 Winchester and 7mm-08 Remington are pistol and rifle cartridges.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.243_Winchester
Also known as .243, .243 Win, 243 win, 243 winchester.
, .257 Roberts, .30-06 Springfield, .30-30 Winchester, .308 Winchester, 6 mm caliber, 6mm Lee Navy, 6mm Remington, 7.62×51mm NATO, 7mm-08 Remington.