What does 9x19 Caliber mean. Like 45 cal. 40 cal.?
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That answer is pretty much correct.  \n\nThere are a few misleading calibers...\n\na .357 is really .38\n\na 30-06 is 30 caliber but was invented in 1906.\n\na 30-30 is a 30 caliber and has 30 grains of black powder behind it.\n\n.220 .221 .222 .223 .224 etc calibers all use the same bullet.\n\na .22 mag case will not fit in a regular .22 chamber.
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The Whole Nine Yards\nThis phrase is of unknown origin and is the subject of some debate. At issue is to what does nine yards refer. The meaning is clearly the entirety or everything, but nine yards is not a significant measure of anything. All we know about its origin is that the phrase cannot be traced any earlier than the mid-1960s and that it is American in origin.\n\nPerhaps the most common assumption is that it is from American football, but the canonical distance in that game is ten, not nine, yards. Also common are explanations based on length of cloth, but there is no standard length for a bolt of cloth (which measure anywhere from twenty to twenty-five yards), and nine yards is not a significant measure for any type of garment (a man's suit uses about seven yards of a thirty-inch bolt, double folded; sarongs, saris, kilts, kimonos, bridal veils and any number of other garments have been suggested, none with any accompanying evidence).\n\nThe explanation that is currently circulating around the internet most frequently is that nine yards was the length of a belt of machine gun ammunition carried by a WWII fighter plane. To "give it the whole nine yards" was to expend all of one's ammo. This explanation is almost certainly false. For one thing, the type of fighter varies with the teller, sometimes Spitfires in the Battle of Britain, sometimes varying American fighters in the South Pacific. Another reason to doubt it is that ammunition is either counted in rounds or by weight. It is never measured in length of a belt. Chapman points to an origin in the Army and Air Force, which fits in with the post-WWII-era origin, but is otherwise unexplained.\n\nNewspaper columnist and language commentator James Kirkpatrick favors the explanation that it is a reference to the capacity of ready-mix concrete trucks (Fine Print: Reflections on the Writing Art). Safire also plumps for this explanation. This explanation, however, is somewhat questionable as the August 1964 issue of Ready Mixed Concrete magazine gives an average concrete mixer as having a capacity of four and a half cubic yards "just a few years ago" and an average of under six and a half in 1962. A 1988 source (Cecil Adams in More of the Straight Dope), states current mixers range from seven to ten cubic yards, with a rough average of nine. While current averages may be on target, when the phrase arose, the average cement payload was less than four and a half cubic yards. So the cement truck explanation is probably incorrect.\n\nChapman also suggests that it may be related to the British phrase dressed to the nines, where presumably nine has some numerological significance. He also suggests that yard may refer to the slang usage of that word to mean one hundred dollars.\n\nOther explanations include:\n\nThe amount of dirt in a large burial plot; \nThe number of properties, or yards, in a standard city block in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Levittown, (pick your city); \nThe amount of cloth used in a burial shroud; \nThe capacity of coal trucks; and \nThe number of yards on a square rigged sailing ship (yards being the horizontal poles that hold the sails), even though it was not uncommon for such ships to have eighteen yards. \nOne final possibility is that it does derive from American football, but was originally intended to be ironic. To go "the whole nine yards" was to fall just short of the goal.\n\nIn summary, this is just one of those idiomatic phrases that defy explanation. This may not be satisfying, but it is not uncommon in English.
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9X9 is 4.don tel me u din kno dat.
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Well, the minor Dia on a 5-40 die is .0952.  This is larger that your 5/64 stainless rod.\n\nHope this helps
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Fabrique Nationale, the Belgin national firearms group produced dozens of different military and civillian weapons from the late 1800's to this day.\nDe Guerre, means "for war" indicating that yes, this is a military weapon. \nThe caliber .30-06 narrows things down a bit. While F.N.       MAY have produced Mauser rifles in that caliber for some contracts, The definitly produced a semi-automatic rifle in that caliber, and It has considerable collector and shooter interest.\nIf you can't find it on the gunbroker page someone else suggested, Try going to security arms photo archive and scrolling down to F.N. guns and looking for one like yours.\nHollar back and let us know what you found!
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My friend, in my opinion, you have one of the finest .44 magnum revolvers ever made. The 329PD was designed to be the strongest and lightest weight .44 mag. revolver on the planet. With a titanium cylinder and the scandium alloy frame, which by the way has a strength to weight advantage of 70% over steel, it is safe to shoot any weight or  type of round you want. But like any gun, if you give it a continuous diet of hot ammo, it will loosen up sooner or later.\nShooting a .44 mag. 320gr.HC bullet @ 1175fps, you must be doing some serious handgun hunting!\nSo, go ahead and fire away. Have fun and be safe!!!
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Your question is difficult to answer because I would need the models of each gun.  Caliber strictly refers to the diameter of the bullet.  A 45 caliber has a diameter of .45 inches.  A 40 caliber has a diameter of .40 inches.  If you look at 50 caliber weapons you can buy a 50 caliber pistol.  However, a 50 caliber rifle will be much more powerful.  You can also buy "reduced load" ammunition.  This is where the bullet is made with less powder so you don't get a hard kick when you fire the weapon.
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If you round down it would be 410 :)
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5.56 x 45\n\n.223 rem
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You can do a comparison of the different rifle calibers using a tool at Remington.com\n\nhttp://www.remington.com/products/ammunition/ballistics/\n\nYou can compare calibers and then bullet weights as well since that's also a factor in understanding energy of the bullet at different ranges.\n\nHave fun and be safe.
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40x means 40 times the magnification\nthe "x" stands for the variable being multiplied by 40.\nit can also mean to multiply in math.
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9 x 19mm. Capacity 15 + 1
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This phrase, meaning "all of it, everything", dates from at least\nthe 1950s.  The origin is a matter for speculation.  9 yards is not\na particularly significant distance either in football or in the\ngarment business (a man's three-piece suit requires about 7 square\nyards of cloth, and cloth is sold in bolts of 20 to 25 yards).  The\nphrase may refer to the capacity of ready-mix concrete trucks,\nalleged to average about 9 cubic yards.  Some people (e.g., James\nKilpatrick in Fine Print:  Reflections on the Writing Art) have\nsatisfied themselves that the concrete-trucks explanation is the\ncorrect one; but I haven't seen the evidence.  And Matthew Jetmore\nhas unearthed some evidence to the contrary, a passage from the\nAugust 1964 issue of Ready Mixed Concrete Magazine:  "The trend\ntoward larger truck mixer units is probably one of the strongest and\nmost persistent trends in the industry.  Whereas, just a few years\nago, the 4 1/2 cubic yard mixer was definitely the standard of the\nindustry, the average nationwide mixer size by 1962 had increased to\n6.24 cubic yards, with still no end in sight to the demand for\nincreased payload."  The phrase is covered by Cecil Adams in More\nof the Straight Dope, pp. 252-257.  A "canonical collection" of\nexplanations has been compiled by "Snopes" (snopes@netcom.com).\n\n   Michael Nunamaker writes that a friend of his in the U.S. Air\nForce suggested a World War II origin:  "According to him, the\nlength of the ammunition belt (feeding the machine guns) in the\nSupermarine Spitfire was nine yards.  Therefore, when a pilot had\nshot all his ammunition he would say he had 'shot the whole nine\nyards'."
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The pistol of choice is the US Colt M1911 .45 cal. Good close range, lots of stopping power. The rifle would be between (@ close range) a AK-47, Russian, 7.65x59mm and a US M16 Colt 5.56mm.  For long range it would be a browning .50 cal machine gun. US made.
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Well, its smaller than a 12 or 16 gauge, but larger than a .410, so it just depends on what you're comparing it to.  I prefer a 12 for most of my shotgun hunting, but I know plenty of people who love bird hunting with a 20.  I suppose it just depends on what you want to use it for, but a 20 gauge has plenty of power to get the job done in most cases.
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This question has been answered pretty well by everyone, the only thing I want to add is contridictory to a statement by TJ N. \n\n\nthe caliber of a bullet is expressed in a fraction of an inch.  not in millimeters a .22 caliber bullet is 22/100ths of an inch in diameter, a .50 caliber bullet is 50/100ths of an inch (or if you reduced the fraction its a full 1/2 inch in diameter).  Sometimes ammunitions are interchangable with NATO ammuntions IE. Remington .223 = NATO 5.56 mm (its 223/1000ths of an inch measured metricly its 5.56 mm. \n\nthe problem with TJ Ns "years of shooting and hunting" experience is that a ".22 caliber bullet" - commonly a squirel/vermin hunting round would be 0.86 inch in diameter.... which wouldn't leave much squirel meat after you hit it with TJ's .22 caliber gun... Which leaves me with more questions about how much of a recoil his .22 caliber gun has? I've fired the .50 caliber Barret Sniper rifle before, as well as the M2 HB .50cal MG. (they both fire the same basic .50 caliber (50/100ths or 1/2 inch round) The M2 has to be mounted on some sort of mount (vehicle or sandbagged Tripod) to fire.  The Barret, I've heard of people firing it standing up.... but the only way I could get behind that thing was in the prone, and after about 15 rounds through that thing I had a bruise on my shoulder the size of Texas. I can't imagine what TJ's .22 caliber that's 86/100ths of an inch would do to me....\n\nnow the difference between the calibers... obviously is the size (diameter) of the bullet.  what's considered High caliber and low caliber?  I suppose thats a matter of opinion.  Some people say anything above .308 is large caliber, and I tend to agree with that but that doesn't really give an indication of damage caused by a bullet for example a .30 caliber (7.62 mm) fired from a M240B MG would tend to cause greater damage to soft tissue at long ranges(greater than 50 meters) than a .45 caliber fired from a M1911 handgun. \n\nAnd yes various rifles fire various caliber rounds.
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Shotgun gauges are determined by the number of lead balls of a given diameter required to make one pound of that size ball. Thus 10 balls of 10 gauge diameter are required to make one pound of such balls, or 20 balls of 20 gauge diameter are required to make one pound, and so forth. This is the traditional, and very old, system. The actual (nominal) bore diameters of the various gauges are as follows: 10 gauge = .775 inch, 12 gauge = .729 inch, 16 gauge = .662 inch, 20 gauge = .615 inch, 28 gauge = .550 inch. The .410 is named for its nominal bore size, and is not a gauge at all.