.45-75 Winchester

Rifle cartridge .45-75 Winchester Centennial 45-75 Winchester 1876.jpg United States Rifle 1876http://www.chuckhawks.com/buffalo_cartridges.htm Buffalo Cartridges of the American Frontier Hawks Chuck Collector's Corner 11 November 2014 Winchester Repeating Arms Company 1876–1935Barnes Frank C. Cartridges of the World Gun Digest Books 2012 154 978-1440230592 yes Rimmed, bottleneck 11.39 https://naboje.org/en/node/2576 Cartridge .45-75 Winchester and its variants live March 11, 2026 12.20 13.87 14.24 15.81 1.41 47.86 56.52 350 Lead 1383 1485 The .45-75 Winchester / 11.62x48mmR Centennial is an intermediate centerfire rifle cartridge developed in 1876 for the newly designed Winchester Model 1876 Centennial lever-action rifle. Winchester Repeating Arms Company introduced the rifle and cartridge at the United States Centennial Exposition. The Model 1876 rifle used an enlarged version of the famous Winchester Model 1873 action to offer a lever-action repeating rifle using cartridges suitable for big-game hunting. The cartridge and rifle enjoyed brief popularity with Gilded Age American hunters including Theodore Roosevelt, and was issued to the Canadian North-West Mounted Police and to Texas Rangers.Hacker Rick 2014 Winchester Model 1876 American Rifleman 162 November 120 National Rifle Association of America Description thumb|left|190px|A .45-75 Winchester cartridge Nomenclature of the era indicated the .45-75 cartridge contained a 0.45 in mm on 2 diameter bullet with 75 gr g of gunpowder. Early Winchester ammunition boxes suggested reloading empty cartridge cases with government musket powder or with American Powder Company Deadshot Fg, Hazard Powder Company Sea Shooting Fg, DuPont Rifle FFg, Oriental Powder Company Western Sporting Fg, Laflin & Rand Orange Rifle Fg, or Austin Powder Company Rifle Powder FFg. Boxes also recommended casting bullets from an alloy of one part tin and sixteen parts lead and lubricating bullets with Japan wax or tallow.http://www.oldammo.com/january11.htm A close look at some early Winchester .45-75 boxes The Cartridge Collector's Exchange 12 November 2014 The .45-75 was shorter and fatter than the .45-70 government cartridge. Although the .45-75 was nominally superior to the popular .45-70, the weak toggle-link action with its elevator-style carrier originally designed for handgun cartridges limited the ability of the Model 1876 rifle to safely fire higher pressure loads intended for stronger actions. Within a decade, the Model 1876's advantage of faster loading for subsequent shots was eclipsed by the stronger and smoother Winchester Model 1886 action capable of handling longer cartridges, including the .45-70 with varying lengths for 300 and 500 grain bullets. The Kennedy lever-action rifle manufactured by Whitney Arms Company was also chambered for the .45-75. The .45-75 and similarly short .40-60 Winchester, .45-60 Winchester, and .50-95 Winchester Express cartridges designed for the Model 1876 rifle faded into obsolescence as 20th-century hunters preferred more powerful smokeless powder loadings of longer cartridges designed for stronger rifles. Winchester production of .45-75 cartridges ended during the Great Depression. Dimensions thumb|center|300px References External links .45-75 Winchester (Centennial) https://web.archive.org/web/20210109024928/http://www.ammo-one.com/45-75WINCen.html 2021-01-09 Case Histories: .45-75 WCF Handloading the .45-75 WCF XfE7XpAGJ8o uberti 1876 45-75 BP - ajg6989 See also List of Winchester Center Fire cartridges Table of handgun and rifle cartridges List of cartridges by caliber List of rifle cartridges List of rimmed cartridges .44-40 Winchester .444 Marlin .44 Henry .450 No 2 Nitro Express Category:Pistol and rifle cartridges Category:Guns of the American West Category:Rimmed cartridges