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Just wondering how many know the difference between calibre and cartridge?
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<blockquote data-quote="Wild Bill G" data-source="post: 1461301" data-attributes="member: 96281"><p>Ok so I just looked up the defintions of both caliber and cartridge. What I find is they are in no way interchangeable or the same. Caliber is the inside diameter of the barrel or width of the bullet or projectile. This measurement is given in millimeters or hundredths of an inch. Cartridge is the entire round we load into our gun. It consists of the case the primer the propellant and the bullet. According to Guns and Ammo Magazine these 2 get mixed up a lot along with switching of bullet and cartridge. Now why our ammo and rifle manufacturers have got lazy and interchange caliber and cartridge I do not know. Maybe they do it because caliber takes less space on whatever platform they use for the info we read. Whe you get right down to why do the difle companies no print chambers instead of caliber. Both could be placed in order from smallest to largest the same way. If these big companies did it right we may not have needed this thread. That would have made some of the arguement less confusing at least.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wild Bill G, post: 1461301, member: 96281"] Ok so I just looked up the defintions of both caliber and cartridge. What I find is they are in no way interchangeable or the same. Caliber is the inside diameter of the barrel or width of the bullet or projectile. This measurement is given in millimeters or hundredths of an inch. Cartridge is the entire round we load into our gun. It consists of the case the primer the propellant and the bullet. According to Guns and Ammo Magazine these 2 get mixed up a lot along with switching of bullet and cartridge. Now why our ammo and rifle manufacturers have got lazy and interchange caliber and cartridge I do not know. Maybe they do it because caliber takes less space on whatever platform they use for the info we read. Whe you get right down to why do the difle companies no print chambers instead of caliber. Both could be placed in order from smallest to largest the same way. If these big companies did it right we may not have needed this thread. That would have made some of the arguement less confusing at least. [/QUOTE]
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