Handgun cartridges

 2.34mm - rimfire round used in MTH 's Swiss Mini Gun .

 2.7mm Kolibri - the smallest commercially available centerfire cartridge ever made
 3mm Kolibri
 4mm Practice Cartridge GECO
 4mm Practice Cartridge M. 20
 4.25mm Liliput
 .17 Mach 2
 .17 Hornady Magnum Rimfire
 .17-357 RG
 4.5x26mm
 4.6x30mm
 5mm Bergmann
 5mm Bergmann Rimless
 5mm Clement
 5.5mm Velo Dog
 .22 BB
 .22 CB
 .22 Short
 .22 Long
 .22 Long Rifle
 .22 WMR (.22 Magnum)
 .22 Reed Express
 .22 Remington Jet (.22 Jet, .22 Centerfire Magnum)
 .221 Remington Fireball
 .224 BOZ
 5.45x18mm (5.45mm PSM)
 5.7x28mm
 5.8x21mm (5.8mm Chinese pistol)
 .25 ACP (6.35 mm Browning)
 6.5mm Bergmann
 .25 NAA
 .256 Winchester Magnum
 7x20mm Nambu
 7mm Bench Rest Remington (7mm BR)
 7.65mm Brev.
 7.62x25mm Tokarev
 7.62x38mmR (7.62x38mm Nagant)
 7.62x42mm SP-4 (a Russian cartridge with an internal piston for silent operation)
 7.63x25mm Mauser
 7.65x25mm Borchardt
 7.65mm Roth-Sauer (7.65mm Frommer)
 7.65x22mm Parabellum (7.65x22mm Luger, .30 Luger)
 7.65mm Longue (7.65mm MAS, 7.65mm Long)
 7.65mm Mannlicher (7.63mm Mannlicher in Austria, 7.65x21mm in the United
States)
 .30 Wildey (.30 Wildey Magnum)
 .32 ACP (7.65x17mm Browning SR)
 7.62x17mm Type 64 (7.62x17mm, 7.62x17mm Chinese)
 .32 NAA
 .32 S&W
 .32 S&W Long (.32 Colt New Police)
 .320 Revolver
 .32 Short Colt
 .32 Long Colt
 .32 H&R Magnum
 .327 Federal Magnum
 .32-20 Winchester (.32 WCF, .32-20 Marlin, .32 Colt Lightning )
 8mm French Ordnance (8mm Lebel Revolver)
 8mm Gasser ( Rast-Gasser M1898 )
 8mm Roth-Steyr
 8x22mm Nambu
 .35 S&W Auto (.35 Automatic)
 8.5mm Mars
 .38 Short Colt
 .38 Long Colt
 .38 S&W (.38 Colt New Police, .38 Super Police)
 .38 Calibre
 .380 Revolver
 .38 Special (9x29mmR)
 .356 TSW
 .357 AutoMag
 .357 Magnum (9x31mmR, .353 Casull [hunting load by CorBon for Freedom Arms
revolver, 180 gr @ 1650 ft/s [1] ])
 .357 Super Magnum
 .357 Remington Maximum
 .360 DW (.360 Dan Wesson)
 .357 Peterbilt (.357 Wildey Magnum)
 .357/44 Bain & Davis
 9x18mm Makarov
 9x18mm Police (9mm Ultra)
 9mm Browning Long (9x20mm Browning SR)
 9mm Glisenti
 9x19mm Parabellum (9mm Luger, 9x19mm NATO)
 9mm Federal
 9x21mm IMI
 9x21mm Gyurza (9x21mm SP-10)
 9mm Action Express (9mm AE)
 9x23mm Steyr
 9mm Largo (9mm Bergmann-Bayard, 9x23mm Largo)
 9mm Super Cooper (9x22mm Super Cooper)
 9x23mm Winchester
 9mm Mars
 9mm Mauser Export (Export caliber for C96 )
 9mm Winchester Magnum
 9x25mm Dillon
 9x25mm Super Auto G
 9x30mm Magnum (9mm Dillon Magnum)
 .380 ACP (9x17mm Browning Short)
 .38 AMU (rimless .38 Special)
 .38 Auto (.38 ACP)
 .38 Super Auto
 .38 Super Comp (a rimless .38 Super development)
 .38/.45 Clerke ( wildcat developed in the 1970s by Bo Clerke )
 .38 Casull
 .357 SIG
 .357/45 Grizzly Win Mag
 9.8 mm Auto Colt
 .375 Super Magnum
 .38-40 Winchester (.38 WCF)
 .400 Colt Magnum
 .400 Corbon
 .40 G&A (.40 Guns & Ammo, a cut-down .30 Remington with .40" bullets)
 .40 Smith & Wesson (.40 Auto, 10 x 21 mm)
 .40 Super
 .401 Herter Magnum
 .401 Special ( .401 Winchester Self-Loading trimmed to 1.218" with .38-40
WCF bullets) [2]
 10mm Auto
 10mm Magnum
 10.4mm Italian Revolver
 .41 Action Express
 .41 Avenger
 .41 JMP (.41 Jurras, .41 AutoMag)
 .41 Long Colt (.41 Colt, .41 LC)
 .41 Colt Special (developed by Remington in 1932, 1.26" case, 210 gr, 900 ft/s) [3]
 .41 Special (shortened .41 Magnum wildcat, trimmed to .44 Special length, 220 gr,
900-1200 ft/s) [4]
 .41 Remington Magnum
 .41 Wildey Magnum (10mm Wildey Magnum)
 .414 JDJ
 .414 Super Magnum see: german Wiki-version: [1]
 .427 ZMR (caseless cartridge designed by Angel Arms for their .427 ZMR pistol)
 .44 American (predecessor to the .44 S&W Russian)
 .44 Bulldog
 .44 Colt
 .44 Special
 .44 S&W Russian
 .44 Remington Magnum
 .44 Auto Mag
 .440 Cor-Bon
 .442 Webley (.442 Revolver Centre Fire, 10.5x17mmR, .442 Kurz, 44 Webley,
or .442 R.I.C.)
 .44 Wildey Magnum (11mm Wildey Magnum)
 .44 Henry rimfire (11x23R)
 .44-40 Winchester (.44 WCF)
 .445_SuperMag (.4295 RIC)
 11.75mm Montenegrin (11mm Austrian Gasser, 11.25x36Rmm Montenegrin)
 11mm French Ordnance
 11mm German Service
 11.35mm Schouboe (11.35x18mm)
 .45 Schofield (.45 S&W Schofield, .45 S&W)
 .45 Colt
 .45 ICP (.45 caseless cartridge designed by Angel Arms for their Gun One pistol)
 .45 J-Mag ( wildcat developed in the 1970s by John Jeffredo)
 .45 Super
 .450 Revolver (.450 Adams)
 .45 Webley
 .455 Webley (.455 Webley Mk I, .455 Revolver, .455 Colt, .455 Colt Mk I; also
identical to the .476 Enfield, .476 Eley, or .476/.455)
  .455 Webley Mk II (.455 Revolver Mk II, .455 Colt Mk II, .455 Eley)
 .455 Webley Automatic
 .45 GAP
 .45 ACP (.45 Auto)
 .45 Hirtenberger Patronen (.45 Italian, .45 Automatic Short)
 .45 Auto Rim
 .45 S&W
 .45 Mars Short
 .45 Mars Long
 .45 Wildey Magnum
 .45 Winchester Magnum
 .450 SMC (.450 Triton)
 .450 Magnum Express
 .451 Detonics Magnum
 .454 Casull
 .455 SuperMag
 .458 Devastator
 .458 Maximum (a 1.6" belted cartridge derived from the .458 Winchester)
 .458 Linebaugh Maximum
 .460 S&W Magnum
 .460 Rowland
 .475 Linebaugh
 .475 Maximum
 .475 Wildey Magnum
 .480 Ruger
 .476 Enfield (.476 Enfield Mk3, .476 Eley, or .476/.455)
 12mm Gyrojet
 12.5x40mm STs-110 (proprietary Russian revolver cartridge, derived from 32-gauge
shotshell)
 .499 Linebaugh
 .50 Special (.50 Bowen Special, same case length as .44 Special, 300-400 gr @
700-900 ft/s [4" bbl.] on Ruger Redhawk frame) [5]
 .50 Action Express
 .500 S&W Special
 .500 S&W Magnum
 .50 Remington (M71 Army)
 .50 GI
 .500 Linebaugh
 .500 Maximum
 .500 Wyoming Express (.500 WE)
 .510 SuperMag
 13mm Gyrojet
 .577 Boxer (.577 Eley, .577 Webley)

Other cartridges used in repeating handguns

Although not originally designed for handguns, several rifle and shotgun cartridges have
also been chambered in a number of large handguns, primarily in revolvers like the Phelps
Heritage revolver, Century Arms revolver, and the Magnum Research BFR . These include:

 .218 Bee
 .22 Hornet
 .223 Remington
 .30 Carbine
  .30-30 Winchester
 .410 bore
 .444 Marlin
 .45-70 Government
 .50-70 Government

Contents
 1 Rimfire
 2 Common centerfire
o 2.1 Inches
o 2.2 Metric
 3 Wildcats - obscure - proprietary
o 3.1 Inches
o 3.2 Metric
o 3.3 Bore
 4 Very large caliber (.50 and larger)
o 4.1 Inches
o 4.2 Metric
 5 See also
 6 References

Rimfire
 .17 Hornady Mach 2 (.17HM2)
 .17 Hornady Magnum Rimfire (.17HMR)
 .22 Long
 .22 Long Rifle
 .22 Short
 .22 WMR (.22 Magnum)
 .22 WRF
 5mm Remington Mag

Common centerfire
Inches

 .17 Remington
 .17 Remington Fireball (based on the wildcat .17 Mach IV )
 .17-357 RG
 .204 Ruger
 .218 Bee
 .219 Zipper
 .20 Tactical
 .20 VarTarg
 .22 BR Remington
 .22 Hornet
 .22 PPC
 .22 Spitfire (MMJ-5.7, 5.7mm MMJ)
 .220 Russian
 .220 Swift
 .221 Fireball
 .22-250 Remington (.22-250 Ackley Improved)
 .22/30 (T65 Duplex)
 .221 Remington Fireball
 .222 Remington
 .222 Remington Magnum
 .223 Remington (.223 AI)
 .223 WSSM
 .224 Weatherby Magnum
 .225 Winchester
 .240 Weatherby Magnum
 .243 Winchester ( .243 AI )
 .243 WSSM
 .244 H&H Magnum
 .244 Remington ( 6 mm Remington )
 .250-3000 Savage
 .256 Winchester Magnum
 .256 Newton
 .25-06 Remington
 .25-20 Winchester
 .25-35 Winchester ( 6.5 x 52R )
 .25 Remington
 .25 WSSM
 .257 Roberts (.257 Roberts +P, .257 Roberts Ackley Improved)
 .257 Weatherby Magnum
 .260 Remington
 .264 Winchester Magnum
 .270 Weatherby Magnum
 .270 Winchester
 .270 Winchester Short Magnum
 .270 Sabi
 .276 Pedersen
 .280 British
 .280 Remington (a.k.a. 7 mm Express Remington )
 .280 Ross (a.k.a. 280 Rimless Nitro Express )
 .284 Winchester
 .30 Carbine
 .30 Newton
 .30 Remington
 .30 Remington AR
 .30 TC
 .30-30 Winchester
 .30-06 Springfield
 .30-40 Krag (.30 Army)
 .30-378 Weatherby Magnum
 .300 H&H Magnum
 .300 Remington SA Ultra Mag
 .300 Remington Ultra Magnum
 .300 Ruger Compact Magnum
 .300 Savage
 .300 Weatherby Magnum
 .300 Winchester Short Magnum
 .300 Winchester Magnum
 .303 British
 .303 Savage
 .307 Winchester
 .308 Marlin Express
 .308 Norma Magnum
 .308 Winchester
 .32-20 Winchester (.32 WCF, .32-20 Marlin, .32 Colt Lightning)
 .32-40 Ballard
 .32-40 Winchester
 .32 Remington
 .32 Winchester Self-Loading
 .32 Winchester Special
 .325 WSM ( Winchester Short Magnum )
 .33 Winchester (.33 WCF)
 .338-378 Weatherby Magnum
 .338 Federal
 .338 Lapua Magnum
 .338 Marlin express
 .338 Remington Ultra Magnum
 .338 Ruger Compact Magnum
 .338 Sabi
 .338 Winchester Magnum
 .340 Weatherby Magnum
 .348 Winchester
 .35 Newton
 .35 Remington
 .35 Whelen
 .35 Whelen Improved
 .35 Winchester
 .35 Winchester Self-Loading
 .350 Remington Magnum
 .351 Winchester Self-Loading
 .356 Winchester
 .358 Norma Magnum
 .358 Winchester
 .375 H&H Magnum
 .375 Ruger
 .375 Remington Ultra Magnum
 .375 Weatherby Magnum
 .375 Whelen (.375-06)
 .375 Winchester
 .376 Steyr
 .378 Weatherby Magnum
 .38-40 Winchester
 .38-55 Winchester
 .40-60 Remington
 .400 H&H Magnum
 .400 Tembo
 .401 Winchester Self-Loading
 .404 Jeffery ( 10.75 x 73 )
 .405 Winchester
 .408 CheyTac
 .416 Barrett
 .416 Remington Magnum
 .416 Rigby
  .416 Weatherby Magnum
 .417 (High velocity cartridge for the M82, M93, M95 and M107 Barrett Firearms
Company rifles)
 .43 Mauser
 .44-40 Winchester
 .44 Remington Magnum
 .444 Marlin
 .45-70 Government
 .45-90 Sharps
 .450 Bushmaster
 .450 Marlin
 .450 Rigby
 .458 Express
 .458 Lott
 .458 Sabi
 .458 SOCOM
 .458 Winchester Magnum
 .460 Weatherby Magnum
 .465 H&H Magnum
 .470 Nitro Express
 .50 Browning Machine Gun
 .500 Jeffery
 .500 Nitro Express
 .505 Gibbs
 .50-110 Winchester
 .50 Beowulf
 .577/.500 Magnum Nitro Express
 .577 Nitro-Express
 .577 Tyrannosaur

From left to right: .50 BMG, 300 Win Mag, .308 Winchester, 7.62 Soviet, 5.56 NATO, .22LR

Metric

 4.6x30mm
 5.45x39mm
 5.56x30mm
 5.56x45mm NATO
 5.6x50mm Magnum
 5.6 x 52R ( .22 Savage Hi-Power )
 5.6x57mm
 5.6x57Rmm
 5.6 x 61 SE ( 5.6 x 61 Vom Hofe Super Express )
 5.7x28mm
 5.8x42mm DBP87
 6 x 35 mm
 6 mm BR Remington
 6 mm PPC
 6 mm Musgrave
 6 mm Remington ( .244 Remington )
 6.5 Jonson
 6.5-284
 6.5 mm Creedmoor
 6.5 mm Grendel
 6.5 mm Remington Magnum
 6.5x50mm Arisaka
 6.5x52mm Mannlicher-Carcano
 6.5x53mmR Mannlicher
 6.5x54mm Mannlicher-Schoenauer
 6.5x55mm
 6.5x57mm Mauser
 6.5x68mm (also known as the 6.5 x 68 RWS, 6.5 x 68 Schüler or the 6.5 x 68 Von
Hofe Express)
 6.8 mm Remington SPC
 7 mm caliber
 7 mm-08 Remington
 7-30 Waters
 7 mm BR Remington
 7 mm Express Remington (a.k.a. .280 Remington )
 7 mm Remington Magnum
 7 mm Remington SA Ultra Mag
 7 mm Remington Ultra Magnum
 7 mm STW
 7 mm Weatherby Magnum
 7 mm WSM ( Winchester Short Magnum )
 7x33mm Sako
 7x57mm Mauser ( .275 Rigby )
 7x61mm Sharpe & Hart
 7x64mm Brenneke
 7.5x55mm Schmidt Rubin
 7.5x57mm MAS mod. 1924 7.5x54mm MAS mod. 1929
 7.62 mm caliber
 7.62x25mm Tokarev
 7.62x38mmR
 7.62x39mm
 7.62x45mm vz. 52
 7.62x51mm NATO
 7.62 x 54R (rimmed) (7.62 Russian)
 7.63x25mm Mauser
 7.62 Jonson
 7.65x22mm Parabellum
 7.65x53mm Argentine (7.65x53mm Mauser)
  7.65x53mmR
 7.63x54mm Greek Mannlicher-Schoenauer
 7.7x58mm Arisaka
 7.92x33mm Kurz
 7.92x57mm Mauser ( 8 mm Mauser or 8x57 JS )
 8 mm Lebel
 8 mm Remington Magnum
 8x50mmR
 8x56mm Mannlicher-Schoenauer
 8x56mmR
 8x58mm RD ( rimmed danish )
 8x60mm S
 8x64mm S
 8x68mm S
 9x19mm NATO (Parabellum)
 9x39mm
 9x45mm
 9x53mm
 9x56mm Mannlicher-Schoenauer
 9x57mm Mauser
 9.3x57mm
 9.3x62mm
 9.3x64mm Brenneke
 9.3x66mm Sako
 9.3x72mmD
 9.3x74mmR
 9.5x57mm Mannlicher-Schoenauer (.375 Rimless Nitro Express x 2-1/4")
 10.75x57mm
 11x60mm Mauser

Wildcats - obscure - proprietary

Inches

 .14/221
 .14-222
 .14 Walker Hornet
 .17-223
 .17 Ackley Bee
 .17 CCM
 .17 Hornet
 .17 PMC/Aguila
 .17 Mach IV (now commercialized as .17 Remington Fireball )
 .17 PPC
 .17/23 SMC
 .17-357 RG (.172" Wildcat based on the 357 SIG)
 .19 Calhoon Hornet
 .19 Badger
 .19-223
 .20 VarTarg
 .20 Tactical
 .219 Donaldson Wasp
 .22 Cheetah
 .222 Rimmed
  .22/303
 .22-243 Middlestead
 .223 AI
 .240 Apex (.240 Belted Nitro Express and .240 Magnum Flanged)
 .25/303
 .275 H&H Magnum
 .30 USA
 .30-03
 .309 jdj
 .30-06 JDJ
 .300 Dakota
 .300 ICL Grizzly
 .300 Lapua Magnum
 .300 Whisper
 .330 Dakota
 .338-06 A-Square
 .338 Whisper (Series 1)
 .338 Whisper (Series 2)
 .338 Voschol
 .338 x 57 O'Connor
 .375 Dakota
 .375 Whisper (Series 2)
 .40-65 Winchester
 .40-70 Sharps
 .408 Chey Tac
 .416 Barrett
 .416 Taylor
 .416 Whisper (Series 2)
 .425 Westley Richards
 .44 Henry
 .45-90 Sharps
 .45-110 Sharps
 .45-120 Sharps
 .450 Watts Magnum
 .458 SOCOM
 .470 Capstick
 .475 OKH
 .475 Ackley
 .500 Phantom

Metric

 4.5mm mkr
 5mm Craig
 5mm/35 SMc
 6-06
 6-284
 6 mm BRX
 6 mm Dasher
 6 mm XC
 6x45 mm
 6 x 47 Swiss Match ( 6mm/222 Mag )
 6.5-06
 6.5 Grendel
  6.5 x 47 Lapua

6.5x55 Swedish Mauser

 6.5 x 57
 7 mm Dakota
 7.82 Lazzeroni Patriot
 7.82 Lazzeroni Warbird
 10,4 x 38 Vetterli ( US: ".41 Swiss" )
 10,4 x 47 Italian Vetterli

Bore

 10 bore
 8 bore
 Six bore
 4 bore - approx. 25mm
 2 bore - 33.6mm

Very large caliber (.50 and larger)

Inches

 .50-70 Government
 .50-90 Sharps
 .50-110 Winchester
 .50-140 Sharps
 .50 Alaskan
 .50 Beowulf
 .50 BMG
 .50 Peacekeeper
 .500 Black Powder Express
 .500 Jeffrey Nitro Express
 .500 No. 2 Express
 .500 Nitro Express 3"
 .500 Nitro Express for black powder 3"
 .500/450 Nitro Express
 .500/465 Nitro Express
 .505 Gibbs
 .505 Jeffery
 .510 DTC Europ
 .510 Fat Mac
 .510 Whisper
 .550 Magnum
 .550 Nitro Express
 .577 Nitro Express
 .577 Tyrannosaur (.577 T-Rex)
 .577 Snider
 .577/450 Martini-Henry
 .577/.500 Magnum Nitro Express
 .585 Nyati
 .600 Nitro Express
 .600/577 REWA
 .600 Overkill
  700 AHR
 .700 Nitro Express
 .950 JDJ

Metric

 12.7mm British No. 2

 12.7x99mm NATO (Multi-Purpose)
 12.7x108mm
 14.5x114mm
 14.5 mm JDJ
 15.2 mm Steyr Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot (APFSDS)
 20 mm caliber
 30x165mm
 30x173mm