The .577 Nitro Express is a straight rimmed .584-inch (14.8 mm) calibre cartridge designed for use in single-shot and double rifles. It has been made in three case lengths based on their respective black-powder .577 Black Powder Express cartridges.

The .577 Snider cartridge was a British black powder metallic centrefire cartridge, which fired a 0.577-inch (14.7 mm), 480-grain (31 g) lead projectile, primarily used in the Snider–Enfield rifle. Early .577 Snider cartridges were made from a composite design using paper and brass foil with a stamped metallic base and primer, much like the ...

The .577/450 Martini–Henry is a black powder, centrefire rifle cartridge. It was the standard British service cartridge from the early 1870s that went through two changes from the original brass foil wrapped case (with 14 parts) to the drawn brass of two parts, the case and the primer.

2023年8月14日 · The cartridge .577 retains its caliber designation on the barrel as well as the gun’s retailer’s name, Rodda & Co., on the topstrap. (Photo by Phillip Schreier) That is exactly what happened.

The .577 Nitro Express is a rimmed cartridge in the Nitro Express series of big-game hunting ammunition. It is also known as the .577 Nitro Express 3" and there is a variant called the .577 Nitro Express 2.75".[2] The .577 is notable as the standard caliber of …

The .577 Revolver is a large-caliber revolver cartridge of British origin that was developed in 1868. By 1868, William Tranter was well aware of firearms development in Britain, having had several governmental contracts for gun components and complete rifles …

2013年12月4日 · The .577 revolvers were made from the late 1860s (yes percussion ignition) until 1890. They were contemporary to the 15mm pinfire revolvers. Neither the .577 1 inch and the 15mm pinfire were as powerful as the double barrel “Howda” pistols of the day.

2020年3月18日 · The largest of the revolvers made by Tranter was his .577″ caliber “Manstopper”, this revolver being made to fire the .577″ revolver cartridge that first appeared in the late 1860’s, probably around 1868. Various British gunmakers made revolvers for this cartridge including Webley, the Bland-Pryse, and Tranter.

2022年5月10日 · The greatest manstopper revolvers of all time were the .577 revolvers of Victorian England. Due to the enormous size of their cartridge they were made with 5 shot cylinders which still dwarfed other revolvers then and now. They are called .577 caliber guns because they chambered cartridges made from cut down .577-.450 cases.

Out of the quest for effective man-stopping revolvers came some of the most fascinating revolvers ever made, the .577s. Doubtless, designers settled on the .577 caliber because of the familiar Enfield and Snider rifles of the day, figuring that a shortened case suitable to …