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Encyclopedia > .177 calibre

.177 calibre (4.5mm) is the smallest size of pellets widely used in air guns, and is the only caliber generally accepted for formal target competition. It is also sometimes used for hunting small game, and in field target competition, where it competes with .20 calibre (5mm) and .22 caliber (5.5mm) rifles. Air guns are weapons that propel a bullet using compressed air or another gas, possibly liquefied. ...


Steel BB shot is .175 inch diameter. Some air guns are designed to accept .177 pellets, or .177 lead shot, or .175 steel BBs interchangeably.


.17 calibre (actually .172 inch diameter) is the smallest size bullet that is widely available for use in firearms, both in rimfire (17 HMR) and centerfire (17 Remington) ammunition. Production of .14 calibre barrels, rifles and bullets is a cottage industry in the USA, while .12 and .10 calibre rifles have been made on an experimental basis. 0. ... A firearm is a kinetic energy weapon that fires either a single or multiple projectiles propelled at high velocity by the gases produced by action of the rapid confined burning of a propellant. ... Boxes of ammunition clog a warehouse in Baghdad Ammunition is a generic military term meaning (the assembly of) a projectile and its propellant. ...


See cartridge for a discussion of the recommended uses of most sizes of ammunition. Rimmed, centerfire . ...


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