Record holders? The fastest, flattest, the most numbers manufactured etc

ivanthehunter

What firearms are deemed to be the best of the best and don't forget the ammo.


What guns will be remember for being the Record breakers of their day?
Which is the smallest and which is the biggest?


I'll start off by asking this simple one.
Who holds the highest fps or the flattest trajectory?

jwshooter

ivanthehunter wrote: »

What firearms are deemed to be the best of the best and don't forget the ammo.


What guns will be remember for being the Record breakers of their day?
Which is the smallest and which is the biggest?


I'll start off by asking this simple one.
Who holds the highest fps or the flattest trajectory?

wild cat or factory

Grizzly 45

Dont know on the FPS etc.
But most produced is ASFIK the AK47 in all it's varients.
Realistically smallest functioning semi auto pistol with commerical available ammo the Kolibri.
Most common round available on the planet. 22LR

It wasn't me!

.220 Swift is fastest I believe, with one of its loads doing 4250fps. .204 Ruger is a close second, with a load doing 4225fps.

ivanthehunter

jwshooter wrote: »

wild cat or factory

Well factory would be the most applicable to most here but i would like to know the best wildcatters also:)

ivanthehunter

It wasn't me! wrote: »

.220 Swift is fastest I believe, with one of its loads doing 4250fps. .204 Ruger is a close second, with a load doing 4225fps.

I take it that they are factor rounds

ivanthehunter

Is there any thing smaller that the .17?
And whats the largest cal. that is still manufactured as a rifle which is capable of being carried:eek:?

thehair

wildcatters also==handload=breaking the law am i right
yes or no steve

It wasn't me!

ivanthehunter wrote: »

I take it that they are factor rounds

Yeah, those are just factory loads. No idea whether anyone's managed to get hotter with handloading, but I can't imagine they got much hotter, regardless.

thehair wrote: »

wildcatters also==handload=breaking the law am i right
yes or no steve

Handloading is awkward here, but the rest of the world manages just fine, and discussing it is fine in any case. Wildcats are a different story altogether though, with the brass also being formed and altered for different characteristics.

Mellor

It wasn't me! wrote: »

.220 Swift is fastest I believe, with one of its loads doing 4250fps. .204 Ruger is a close second, with a load doing 4225fps.

I think that is surpassed in lab tests, as in not factory rounds.
I think for gas expansion up to 6000 fps can be achieved. but electromagnetic rail guns, have been develop that can fire 300 gm projectiles at over 13,000 fps,:eek: with very light one (a few grams) going to over 30,000 fps

ivanthehunter wrote: »

Is there any thing smaller that the .17?
And whats the largest cal. that is still manufactured as a rifle which is capable of being carried:eek:?

A .17 is about 4.4mm, and is the smallest rifle round, but
2.34mm - Rimfire ammoused in a Swiss Mini Gun
2.7mm Kolibri - smallest commercial centerfire cartridge ever

The largest are
.750 Hornady
.950 JDJ
30x165mm
30x173 mm (this would be about 1.2 in imperial)

IDon'tKnow!

The Marlin Model 60 is the biggest selling .22lr rifle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlin_Model_60

ivanthehunter

The most ammunition produced was?
centerfire???? 303 or 7.62nato standard
rimfire? has to be 22lr

The year in which the most ammo was ever produced was?
I would say WWII some time!

Any takers

IRLConor

ivanthehunter wrote: »

rimfire? has to be 22lr

By a mile. 2-2.5 billion rounds produced every year according to Wikipedia.

bitemybanger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_TeYqvpk-A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mIK7CujSrQ&feature=related

Mellor

Thats a pretty nice gun imo, I'm smitten

Mellor

Bigger again

http://www.shootingtimes.co.uk/features/258443/VIDEO_ST_testfires_a_massive_twobore_rifle.html

apparemntly the largest sporting rifle, a 2 bore,
for comparisment a 2 bore is about 33.5mm, with is a 1.35" or so (which is 6 times the width of a .220, so 36 times the cross section area)