5.6x50mm Magnum

Infobox Firearm Cartridge
name=5.6x50mm Magnum


caption=5.56x50mm
origin=flagcountry|West Germany
type=Rifle
designer=DWM / Friedrick W Heym
design_date=1968-1969
manufacturer=
production_date=
number=
variants=5.6x50mmR (Rimmed)
is_SI_specs=yes
parent=
case_type=Rimless, bottleneck
bullet=5.7
neck=6.5
shoulder=9.0
base=9.5
rim_dia=9.6
rim_thick=
case_length=50
length=56
rifling=330 mm (13 in)
primer=Small rifle
is_SI_ballistics=yes
bwunit=gram
bw1=3.2
btype1=SP
vel1=1100
en1=1840
bw2=36
btype2=SP
vel2=1000
en2=1800
bw3=39
btype3=SP
vel3=980
en3=1840
bw4=
btype4=
vel4=
en4=
bw5=
btype5=
vel5=
en5=
test_barrel_length=
balsrc= Cartridges of the Worldcite book | last = Barnes | first = Frank C. | editor = McPherson, M.L. | title = Cartridges of the World | edition = 8th Edition | origyear = 1965 | year = 1997 | publisher = DBI Books | pages = 347,374 |isbn = 0-87349-178-5] The 5.6x50mm Magnum cartridge was developed in Germany for use as a legal hunting round alongside the 5.6x50mmR. The two cartridges are dimensionally and ballistically identical in all respects, except that the Magnum cartridge is not rimmed.

Typically firing a convert|3.2|g|gr|sing=on bullet at convert|1100|m/s|ft/s, this cartridge occupies a useful performance niche approximately halfway between the .222 Remington and the 5.6x57mm, similar to the .222 Remington Magnum. In Germany the cartridge was used with appropriate bullets to hunt deer, in America, it was primarily a varmint hunting cartridge.

pecifications

Shoulder angle: 23 degrees

ee also

* List of rifle cartridges
* 5 mm caliber

References

* [http://www.chuckhawks.com/5-6x50mag.htm 5.6 x 50 Magnum] by Chuck Hawks
* [http://www.stevespages.com/jpg/cd56x50magnum.jpg5.6x50 Magnum] Cartridge dimensions at Steve's Pages
* Vihtavouri Metric Reloading Guide for Centerfire Cartridges, 2002, page 14