Calibres

It may be that the performance at Kinburn answered the expectation of the French emperor as regards offensive power, for that is a mere question of the battering capacity of the heaviest calibres, which is undoubted; but the main issue, which concerns their endurance, cannot be settled by the impact of 32-pounder shot, fired at 600 and 700 yards. ❋ Henry Wager Halleck (1843)

Well if people used high quality bullets like partition, barnes-x and bonded on bigger game and only shot from bowhunting ranges then we would have more clean kills, but the problem is people dont, they shoot at ranges where a 3006 would be questionable and with softpoint bullets with such a thin jacket in small calibres that they cannot possibly penetrate far anough to ensure a clean kill every time .. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Set minimum bullet weight for deer at 110 grains and let the calibres sort themselves .. ❋ Unknown (2009)

With glowering eyes Gogoomy looked on while Sheldon took from the tin a hundred rounds each for the two Winchesters and fully as many rounds more of nondescript cartridges of all sorts and makes and calibres. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Bird and rabbit guns, long range sporting calibres - close in people stoppers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I do not carry ammo in mine - that's a big NO-NO in California South - but I carry several calibres in "bore snakes" and a collimator, plus a copy of local legislation, to balance that. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I looked around quickly and said, A load of empty shell casings of different calibres, two spent rounds test-fired into body armour, and a US Army training manual on long-range sniping ... er, hello? ❋ Unknown (2008)

I guess more bullpups in slightly larger calibres are in the offing, but apart from that a purely mechanical weapon is not susceptible to E.M.P. if the worst should happen. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Yes | No | Report from jackie gantt wrote 2 years 49 weeks ago so what you are saying that the wsm, wssm calibres of rifles, burn up the bbls quicker. hotter loadsthan the bbls can handle. so severebbl wear is expected, from such a wildcat load. preformance, is the same, the only reason is for a shorter bolt stroke. shame on all of you. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The exact quantity of weapons uncovered has not been officially confirmed, but a report in the Nigerian Tribune newspaper said the haul included 13,694 rounds of ammunition for military-style weapons of various calibres. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Cam, here's a 1986 paper that lays out some of the arguments for and against the two calibres we're discussing. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Seulement pour les six premiers mois de l'année financière 2007-08, l'achat de munitions de tous les calibres a bondi de 650 % comparativement à toute l'année 2006-07, selon les calculs effectués par Le Devoir. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Bullets come in calibers, or calibres for the Antipodean and British. ❋ Miss Snark (2006)

More than 2200 firearms of all calibres and some 64,000 rounds of live ammunition have been handed in since the start of the firearm amnesty, North Rand police said on Thursday. ❋ Unknown (2005)

However, committee chairman Mluleki George said the report did not contain sufficient detailed information, such as how many firearms were in, for example, social development or home affairs and what calibres the weapons were. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He had a stock of several thousand feet of garden hose, of various qualities and calibres, and now he felt was the time to use it. ❋ Unknown (2003)

While I'm holdin a pistol with this many calibres here?? ❋ Sierrazen (2003)