Silly looking ammo

[Packman]

Does anyone else look at certain cartridges and think they look silly?

For example, I find the dimensions of FMJ .45 ACP to be odd. They look funny with the rounded nose bullet on top of that big fat case. Same thing with .380 ACP. JHP in these calibers looks more "correct" to me.

I find that 9mm looks "correct" to my eyes, and I've never seen a revolver cartridge that looked wrong either.

Anyone else have ammo that they think looks odd for whatever reason?

 

[Hypnogator]

Try looking at the 7.62X38mm Nagant revolver cartridge.

Looks, well, uncircumsized!

 

[Packman]

Oooh, I'd forgotten about the Nagant!

You're right, it's a weird one!

 

[mcdonl]

I sorta think the .223 is odd looking.

 

[ArmedLiberal]

.30-30

 

[Lee Roder]

For underwater shooting, hydrodynamics, not aerodynamics, dictates bullet profile:

 

[RevolvingGarbage]

Heres something ive always wondered about those underwater russian bullets, is the entire length of the bullet a bearing surface? How do they get that big long bullet to pass through a barrels rifling?

I would think the gun would have to be a smoothbore, but now they have a convertable UAR that can fire both underwater needle ammo and regular 5.45x39mm rounds as well, from the same barrel!

*EDIT* just looked it up, seems the newer APS uses special shallow rifling to accomodate both 5.45 regular and needle ammo.

http://world.guns.ru/assault/rus/asm-dt-sea-lion-e.html

 

[WalkAbout]

Wow... I wonder what the increased resistance of pushing a bullet through water does to the overall pressures involved in shooting one of those. I'm thinking SAMMI doesn't have specs for that...

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[GCBurner]

The 5.2x68mm Mondragon is one of the oddest designs I've come across.
http://www.ammo-one.com/5p2x68mmMondragon.html

 

[Bubba613]

6.5x58R. Tapered rimmed cartridge. I have a box but have yet to find anyone with a gun chambered in it.

 

[RimfireChris]

Take a look at Aguila's .22LR Sub Sonic Sniper ammo. The overall length is that of a .22LR, but it's actually a .22 short brass with the rest of the length made up by a massive-for a .22 at least-60 grain roundnose bullet. Decicedly odd looking, and great for a few head scratches when shown off to friends.

 

[rcmodel]

.45 ACP FMJ-RN looks perfectly normal to me.

Course, I spent my tender formative years shooting a whole lot of it for Uncle Sam's Army.

rc

 

[Brass Rain]

I've seen an example of .45 ACP necked down to .223 (or was it .22 LR?) but don't remember what it was called. It was designed to give armor-piercing capabilities to handguns, but there were feeding issues with the really abrupt change in the necked-down design.

 

[LHRGunslinger]

You could always look at the curious ammunition fired out of the HK G11. It's simply a primer, & a square block of explosive wrapped around a bullet.

 

[otisrush]

My Dad had some .25 ACP hidden and I found it after he died. He never had a gun to shoot it when he and I were shooting so I'd never seen that caliber before.

That small of a cartridge as a center-fire? It looks very strange to me.

 

[SpentCasing]

I always thought 6.5 Carcano looked a little odd.

 

[Dentite]

Cool photos and links...there is some weird stuff out there.

Of the guns I own the weirdest is 7.62 Nagant (Love the description of it looking uncircumcised haha).

7.62x25 (7.62 Tokarev) is interesting.

9x18 (9mm Mak) has odd porportions to me...the very round nose FMJ looks like a ball bearing inside of the case.

 

[pikid89]

.22 eargesplitten loudenboomer
or
.950 JDJ

 

[LiENUS]

What about the Daisy VL's ammunition? Case-less and primer-less. Just a bullet and a powder cake.

 

[CharlesT]

lol

50 necked down to a .17!

 

[rogertc1]

Gyrojet rocket round



Dardick tround

 

[LHRGunslinger]

Lets go old school caseless and bring up the whole Volcanic Repeating Pistol. It was the fore-runner of the Henry Repeating Rifle. The ammunition was basically a Minie Ball with a charge & primer packed into the cavity.