.32 Remington
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.32 Remington | ||||||||
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.308 Winchester (left) .32 Remington (middle) .223 Remington (right) | ||||||||
Type | Rifle | |||||||
Place of origin | United States | |||||||
Production history | ||||||||
Designer | Remington Arms | |||||||
Specifications | ||||||||
Case type | rimless | |||||||
Bullet diameter | 0.321 in (8.2 mm) | |||||||
Neck diameter | 0.341 in (8.7 mm) | |||||||
Shoulder diameter | 0.394 in (10.0 mm) | |||||||
Base diameter | 0.418 in (10.6 mm) | |||||||
Rim diameter | 0.418 in (10.6 mm) | |||||||
Case length | 2.06 in (52 mm) | |||||||
Overall length | 2.54 in (65 mm) | |||||||
Rifling twist | 1 turn in 14" | |||||||
Maximum pressure | 36000 PSI | |||||||
Ballistic performance | ||||||||
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Test barrel length: 22 Source(s): Whelen, Townsend. The American Rifle. The Century Co: 1918, p. 263. |
The .32 Remington (also known as the .32 Remington Auto-Loading or .32 Remington Rimless) is an American rifle cartridge. A rimless, smokeless powder design, this cartridge was once considered to be suitable for game larger than deer and black bear.[1] Similar contemporary cartridges include the rimmed .32 Winchester Special, a cartridge introduced by Winchester and offered as a chambering in Winchester's lever-action rifles.
Description[]
The .32 Remington cartridge dates to 1906 and its introduction by Remington in the Remington Model 8 rifle. Other rifles chambered for the .32 Remington include the Remington Model 81, Remington Model 14 slide-action, Remington Model 30 bolt action, lever-action, and rifles. Due to their similar dimensions, the .25 Remington, .30 Remington, and .32 Remington together were known as the Remington Rimless cartridge series.[2] Firearm manufacturers generally offered all three of these cartridges as chamberings in a rifle model rather than just one of the series.
This cartridge was chambered in the Remington Model 141 also. The .35 Remington was also a part of the old Remington rimless lineup, although it is based on a rimless version of the .30-40 Krag. This cartridge is a ballistic twin of the .32 Winchester Special.
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- Pistol and rifle cartridges
- Remington Arms cartridges