![]() ![]() 38 Special cartridge originally loaded with black powder this parent case itself had been developed with the mind to replace the then standard-issue US military ammunition, as it was deemed too weak to do kill foreigners. ![]() 357 Magnum cartridge developed by Smith and Wesson. However the most famous and possibly successful magnum round was of course the. It is possibly the first magnum round to hit the market. Competition between big game rifle companies had been fierce since the introduction of smokeless powder and the Magnum cartridge was but the last development of that arms race. The naming convention started as early as 1912, when Generally magnum rounds are developments of previous cartridges where the propellant was improved, packed tighter or in a longer case, but not always. In the firearm world, in a similar manner, it is used to market any cartridge that packs more of a wallop than others of the same caliber. The word magnum itself is latin for ‘great’ and comes to refer to a 1,5L bottle of wine in the French and English languages starting in the late 1700′s. Three lines in and I’ve lost the entire website I can just feel it writing this. ![]() Except they’re not, because in that case the word magnum is a metaphor. Referring to a revolver as a magnum is a metonymy, because the cartridges fired by said revolver are the magnums. ![]()
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