Below is a list of rimfire cartridges, ordered by

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, small to large.

Rimfire ammunition Rimfire ammunition is a type of firearm metallic cartridge whose primer is located within a hollow circumferential rim protruding from the base of its casing. When fired, the gun's firing pin will strike and crush the rim against the edge ...

is a type of metallic cartridge whose

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is located within a hollow circumferential rim protruding from the base of its casing. Among the most common rimfire cartridges are

.22 caliber .22 caliber, or 5.6 mm caliber, refers to a common firearms bore diameter of 0.22 inch (5.6 mm). Cartridges in this caliber include the very widely used .22 Long Rifle and .223 Remington / 5.56×45mm NATO. .22 inch is also a popular ...

and .17 caliber. The bullet diameter for the ubiquitous

.22 Long Rifle The .22 Long Rifle or simply .22 LR or 22 (metric designation: 5.6×15mmR) is a long-established variety of .22 caliber rimfire ammunition originating from the United States. It is used in a wide range of rifles, pistols, revolvers, smo ...

is .222 inch (5.64 mm) while .17 caliber firearms, both rimfire and centerfire, generally measure .172 inch (4.37 mm).

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* 2.34mm * .14 Alton Jones * .17 Hornady Mach 2 (.17 HM2) *

.17 Hornady Magnum Rimfire .17 Hornady Magnum Rimfire, commonly known as the .17 HMR, is a rimfire rifle cartridge developed by Hornady in 2002. It was developed by necking down a .22 Magnum case to take a .17 caliber (4.5 mm) projectile. Commonly loaded with a 17 ...

(.17 HMR) * .17 PMC/Aguila *

.17 Winchester Super Magnum .17 Winchester Super Magnum, is a rimfire rifle cartridge developed by the ammunition company Winchester in 2012. It descended from the .27 caliber nail-gun blank by necking down the blank case to take a .17 caliber In guns, particu ...

* 5 mm Remington Rimfire Magnum *

.22 Short .22 Short is a variety of .22 caliber (5.6 mm) rimfire ammunition. Developed in 1857 for the first Smith & Wesson revolver, the .22 rimfire was the first American metallic cartridge. The original loading was a bullet and of black powd ...

.22 Long 22 Long is a variety of 22 caliber (5.6 mm) rimfire ammunition. The 22 Long is the second-oldest of the surviving rimfire cartridges, dating back to 1871, when it was loaded with a 29 grain (1.9 g) bullet and 5 grains (0.32 g) of black po ...

.22 Extra Long The .22 Extra Long is a .22 in (5.6 mm) American rimfire rifle and handgun cartridge. Description Introduced around 1880, the .22 Extra Long was used in Remington, Ballard, Wesson, Stevens, and later (1916) models of Winchester's M19 ...

.22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire The .22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire, also called .22 WMR, .22 Magnum, .22 WMRF, .22 MRF, or .22 Mag, is a rimfire cartridge. Originally loaded with a bullet weight of delivering velocities in the range from a rifle barrel, .22 WMR is now loaded ...

(.22 WMR) *

.22 Winchester Rimfire The .22 Winchester Rimfire (commonly called the .22 WRF) is an American rimfire rifle cartridge. History Introduced in the Winchester M1890 slide rifle, it had a flat-nose slug, and is identical to the .22 Remington Special (which differed o ...

(.22 WRF) *

.22 ILARCO The .22 Winchester Short Magnum Rimfire, also called .22 ILARCO or .22 American, was a rimfire cartridge designed for the American-180 rimfire submachine gun. At the time the cartridge was created, the design of the American-180 had been take ...

.22 CB The .22 CB cap (conical breech cap) is a more powerful version of the .22 BB cap (aka: 6mm Flobert) rimfire metallic cartridge, which was invented by Louis-Nicolas Flobert in 1845. The .22 BB cap and .22 CB cap are interchangeable and are rela ...

* .22 BB (6mm Flobert) * .22 Remington Automatic * .22 Winchester Automatic * .25 Short (.25 Bacon & Bliss) * .25 Stevens * .25 Stevens Short * .267 Remington * .277 rimfire * .30 rimfire * .310 Remington Skeet * .31 Eley *

.32 rimfire The term .32 rimfire refers to a family of cartridges which were chambered in revolvers and rifles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These rounds were made primarily in short and long lengths, but extra short, long rifle and extra long ...

* .340 rimfire revolver * .35 Allen *

9mm Flobert Frenchman Louis-Nicolas Flobert (1819–1894) invented the first rimfire metallic cartridge in 1845. It was a major innovation in firearms ammunition, previously delivered as separate bullets and powder. The rimfire cartridge combined both elemen ...

.38 rimfire .38 rimfire cartridges are a type of ammunition that have been in service in the United States since the mid-nineteenth century. The cartridges are produced in short, long and extra long variants. Much like the smaller .32 rimfire, the roun ...

.41 Short The .41 Rimfire Cartridge was first introduced by the National Arms Company in 1863 and was also known as the .41 Short and the .41-100. In most designations like this, the second number refers to the black powder load, though in this case it m ...

.41 Swiss The .41 Swiss (officially the 10.4x38mmR Swiss cartridge used in the Swiss Vetterli M69/81 rifle) is a Swiss military rimfire bottlenecked intermediate rifle cartridge. History In 1867, the Swiss military adopted the 10.4×38mmR ca ...

(10.4x38R rimfire) * .42 Allen * .44 Short & Long * .440 * .442 Eley *

.44 Henry The .44 Henry, also known as the .44 Rimfire, the .44 Long Rimfire, or the 11x23mmR (11x23mm Rimmed) in Europe, is a rimfire rifle and handgun cartridge featuring a -long brass or copper case. The round has a total overall length of , with a ...

* .45 Danish * .46 rimfire *

.50 Remington Navy The .50 Remington Navy is a American rimfire handgun cartridge. History Introduced for the Remington Navy single-shot, rolling block pistol in 1865, the low-velocity round loaded a bullet over of black powder. The rimfire version was re ...

* .50 Government * 14x33mm Wänzl * .56-46, 56-50, 56-52, .56-56 Spencer * .58 Gatling * .58 Joslyn carbine * .58 Mont Storm * .58 Miller * 1" Gatling (one specimen known)

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