.40-65 Winchester

Rifle cartridge .40-65 Winchester United States Rifle Rimmed, straight .406 .423 .560 .504 .604 2.1 2.48 1:20 in to 1:26 in large rifle 260 1500 1308 260 1720 1708 260 1420 1165 Barnes & Amber The .40-65 Winchester (also called the .40-65 Winchester and Marlin)Barnes, Frank C., ed. by John T. Amber. Cartridges of the World (Northfield, IL: DBI Books, 1972), p.94, ".40-65 Winchester" 0-695-80326-3. was an American rifle cartridge. Introduced in 1887 for the Winchester Model 1886, and available in Winchester single shots and in the Marlin Model 1895, it was "a further effort to put more steam" in repeating rifle cartridges.Barnes, and Amber, p.94. In the modern era, the cartridge has gained favor for metallic silhouette shooting and Black Powder Cartridge Rifle matches where it serves as a low-recoil alternative to the common 45–70.Sam Fadala The Complete Blackpowder Handbook https://books.google.com/books?id=Dzxyneq43AEC&pg=PA278 17 November 2006 Gun Digest Books 0-89689-390-1 278–Venturino Mike BPCR Silhouette: An Enduring Sport Combining Skill With Rifle, Bullet And Loading Press. Guns Magazine November 2013 http://gunsmagazine.com/bpcr-silhouette/ 2015-07-02 https://web.archive.org/web/20150118213214/http://gunsmagazine.com/bpcr-silhouette/ 2015-01-18 dead It was commercially available in black and smokeless varieties until around 1935, and can be handloaded by reforming .45-70 brass. Nomenclature The nomenclature of the period was based on several properties of the cartridge: .40: nominal caliber in inches: 0.40 inches (10.2 mm); actual caliber was .406 in ( mm)Barnes, and Amber, p.123. 65 : weight of propellant (black powder) charge, in grains: 65 grains (4.2 g) See also List of cartridges by caliber List of rifle cartridges Marlin Model 1895 10 mm caliber References Category:Pistol and rifle cartridges Category:Winchester Repeating Arms Company cartridges