Craig Boddington was the senior contributing editor of our modern gun and ammunition caliber dictionary. Craig was involved in the development and testing of many of these and writes from first hand experience. This dictionary was written exclusively for Wholesale Hunter with unique information found nowhere else.
GUN CALIBER DICTIONARY
Centerfire Handgun
10mm
22 TCM
25 ACP
25 NAA
30 Luger
32 ACP
32 H&R MAG
32 North American Arms
32 S&W
32 S&W Long
32 Short Colt
327 Federal Magnum
357 Magnum
357 Maximum
357 Sig
38 Colt Short
38 Long Colt
38 S&W
38 Short Colt
38 Special
38 Special +P
38 Super Automatic
380 ACP
4.6X30 Heckler & Koch
40 S&W
400 Cor-Bon
41 Colt
41 Remington Magnum
41 Special
429 Desert Eagle
44 Auto Mag
44 Colt
44 Rem Magnum
44 Russian
44 Special
45 ACP
45 Auto Rimmed
45 AUTO+P
45 Colt
45 Colt / 410 gauge
45 Glock Automatic Pistol (GAP)
45 Schofield
45 Winchester Magnum
454 Casull
455 Webley
460 Rowland
460 S&W Magnum
475 Linebaugh
480 Ruger
50 Action Express
500 JRH
500 S&W
500 Wyoming Express
7.62 Nagant
7.62X25mm Tokarev
7.63mm Mauser
9mm Luger
9mm Makarov
9mmX18mm Ultra Police
9X21mm
9X23mm Winchester
Centerfire Rifle
17 Hornet
17 Remington
17 Remington Fireball
204 Ruger
218 BEE
22 Hornet
22 Nosler
22-250 Remington
220 Swift
221 Remington Fireball
222 Remington
223 Remington
223 Winchester Super Short Magnum
223 Wylde
224 Valkyrie
224 Weatherby Magnum
225 Winchester
240 Weatherby Magnum
243 Winchester
243 Winchester Super Short Magnum
25 Winchester Super Short Magnum
25-06 Remington
25-20 Winchester
25-35 Winchester
250 Savage
257 Roberts
257 Weatherby Magnum
26 Nosler
260 Remington
264 Winchester Magnum
27 Nosler
270 Weatherby Magnum
270 Winchester
270 WSM
275 Rigby
28 Nosler
280 Rem Ackley Improved
280 Remington
284 Winchester
30 Carbine
30 Nosler
30 Remington AR
30 Thompson Center
30-06 Springfield
30-30 Winchester
The 30-30 Winchester (30 Winchester Center Fire or WCF) was introduced in Winchester's John Browning-designed Model 1894. The rifle was intended for smokeless powder…but the first smokeless powder sporting cartridges, the 30-30 and 25-35, weren't ready for release until 1895. Its "30-30" designation meant ".30-caliber, 30 grains of powder." This is a carryover from blackpowder designations, but 30 grains of smokeless powder gave the 30-30 unprecedented velocity for its day. The 30-30 quickly became America's gold-standard deer cartridge--and despite the many faster cartridges now available, it remains a very effective deer cartridge out to perhaps 150 yards. It has been chambered in single-shots and bolt-actions, but its traditional home is the tubular-magazine lever-action...which requires very blunt-nosed bullets, the lone exception being Hornady's FTX with a compressible polymer tip. All major manufacturers offer 30-30 ammuntion, and rifles are available from multiple sources. — Craig Boddington