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Firearm Cartridge

admin · 2026-03-16T23:03:43.787Z

Spent a good chunk of last weekend at the reloading bench prepping .308 brass, which put me in the right headspace for this one. The history of how we got from a soldier biting open a paper tube in the rain to a precision-drawn centerfire case is worth understanding — it explains why your gun works the way it does and why you make the choices you make at the component shelf. The percussion cap also solved the priming problem permanently—and in doing so, made the self-contained cartridge not ...

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Firearm Cartridge

A firearm cartridge—also called a round—is a pre-assembled package that combines everything a gun needs to fire a single shot: a projectile (bullet, shot, or slug), a propellant (black powder, smokeless powder, or a substitute), an ignition device (p

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