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cartridges which have a bullet in the 5 millimetre (0.196850393700787 in) to 6 millimetre (0.236220472440945 in) caliber

Caliber

In guns including firearms, caliber or calibre is the approximate internal diameter of the barrel in relation to the diameter of the projectile used in it....

range.

Length refers to the cartridge case length.
OAL refers to the overall length of the cartridge.

All measurements are in mm (in).

Rimfire cartridges

Name	Case type	Bullet	Length	Rim	Base	Shoulder	Neck	OAL
5 mm Remington Rimfire Magnum 5 mm Remington Rimfire Magnum The 5 mm Remington Rimfire Magnum is an obsolete bottlenecked rimfire cartridge introduced by Remington Arms Company in 1970. Remington chambered it in a pair of bolt-action rifles, the Model 591 and Model 592, but the round never became very popular, and the rifles were discontinued in 1974....	rimmed, bottleneck	5.21 (.205)	25.91 (1.020)	8.25 (.325)	6.58 (.259)	6.58 (.259)	5.72 (.225)
.22 BB .22 BB .22 BB Cap is a variety of .22 caliber rimfire ammunition. .22 BB cap and .22 CB refer to cartridges that are low velocity and project reduced noise. These rimfires closely resemble a .22 caliber air rifle in power and are often used for indoor shooting and close range pest control...	rimmed straight	5.639 (.222)	7.214 (.284)	6.86 (.270)	5.69 (.224)	N/A	5.69 (.224)	8.71 (.343)
.22 CB .22 CB .22 CB Cap is a variety of .22 caliber rimfire ammunition which has a very small propellant charge , resulting in a low muzzle velocity of between 350 and 700 ft/s...	rimmed straight	5.639 (.222)	7.214 (.284)	6.88 (.271)	5.72 (.225)	N/A	5.72 (.225)	13.21 (.520)
.22 Short .22 Short .22 Short is a variety of .22 caliber rimfire ammunition. Developed in 1857 for the first Smith and Wesson revolver, the .22 rimfire was the first American metallic cartridge....	rimmed straight	5.66 (.223)	10.74 (.423)	6.93 (.273)	5.72 (.225)	N/A	5.69 (.224)	17.42 (.686)
.22 Long .22 Long .22 Long is a variety of .22 caliber 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 bullet and 5 grains of black powder, 25% more than the .22 Short it was based on...	rimmed straight	5.66 (.223)	10.54 (.415)	6.91 (.272)	5.72 (.225)	N/A	5.69 (.224)	20.27 (.798)
.22 Long Rifle .22 Long Rifle The .22 Long Rifle rimfire cartridge is a long established variety of ammunition, and in terms of units sold is still by far the most common in the world today. The cartridge is often referred to simply as .22 LR and various rifles, pistols, revolvers, and even some smoothbore shotguns have...	rimmed straight	5.68 (.224)	15.11 (.595)	6.88 (.271)	5.74 (.226)	N/A	5.72 (.225)	25 (.984)
.22 Remington Special .22 Winchester Rimfire The .22 Winchester Rimfire is an American rimfire rifle cartridge.Introduced in the Winchester M1890 slide rifle, it had a flat-nose slug, and is identical to the .22 Remington Special...	rimmed straight	5.689 (.224)	24.38 (0.96)	7.39 (.291)	6.12 (.241)	N/A	6.10 (.240)	29.72 (1.17)
.22 WRF .22 Winchester Rimfire The .22 Winchester Rimfire is an American rimfire rifle cartridge.Introduced in the Winchester M1890 slide rifle, it had a flat-nose slug, and is identical to the .22 Remington Special...	rimmed straight	5.689 (.224)	24.38 (0.96)	7.39 (.291)	6.12 (.241)	N/A	6.10 (.240)	29.72 (1.17)
.22 WMR .22 WMR The .22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire, more commonly called .22 WMR, .22 Magnum, or simply .22 Mag, is a rimfire rifle cartridge...	rimmed straight	5.689 (.224)	26.72 (1.052)	7.39 (.291)	6.12 (.241)	N/A	6.10 (.240)	34.29 (1.35)

Pistol cartridges

Name	Bullet	Length	Rim	Base	Shoulder	Neck	OAL
5mm Clement 5mm Clement The 5mm Clement is a centerfire cartridge produced for early self-loading pocket pistols made Charola-Anitua and a 1903 design by Clement. The steeply conical, bottle-necked case is semi-rimmed, but headspaces on the shoulder of the case. The long bullet was inadequately stabilized and tended to... Auto	5.131 (.202)	14.7(.58)	6.9(.273)	6.75(.2655)
5.85(.2325)	21.43(.844)
5mm Bergmann 5mm Bergmann The 5mm Bergmann is an unusual centerfire cartridge produced for very early self-loading pocket pistols. The case is steeply conical and headspaces on the conical case walls. Early versions were made without any rim or extraction groove; and relied upon blow-back for expulsion of the fired case...	5.156 (.203)
5mm Bergmann Rimless	5.156 (.203)
5.45x18mm 5.45x18mm 5.45×18mm MPTs is a Russian pistol cartridge.It is chambered in the PSM pistol and OTs-23 Drotik machine pistol.It was designed in the Soviet Union in the early 1970s by Antonina D. Denisova at the Precision Mechanical Engineering Central Research Institute... Soviet	5.334 (.210)	17.78 (.701)	7.62 (.300)	7.62 (.300)
5.588 (.220)	24.89 (.980)
5.7x28mm FN	5.689 (.224)	28.70 (1.13)	7.874 (.310)	7.874 (.310)	7.849 (.309)	6.325 (.249)	40.50 (1.594)
5.8x21mm 5.8x21mm The 5.8×21mm cartridge is a Chinese armor-piercing firearm cartridge.The cartridge was designed for replacements of 7.62×25mm Tokarev–chambered small arms for the People's Liberation Army that would offer a wound as large as a standard 9×19mm Parabellum round. This round is offered in both a...	5.994 (.236)
8.0 (.315)
33.5 (1.320)

Revolver cartridges

Name	Bullet	Length	Rim	Base	Shoulder	Neck	OAL
5 mm Pickert	5.258 (.207)
.22 Remington Jet .22 Remington Jet The .22 Remington Jet is a .22 in American centerfire revolver and rifle cartridge....	5.651 (.223)	32.51 (1.28)	11.2 (.440)	9.55 (.376)	8.89 (.350)	6.27 (.247)	40.13 (1.58)
5.5 mm Velo Dog	5.715 (.225)	28.45 (1.12)	7.82 (.308)	6.43 (.253)
6.3 (.248)	34.29 (1.35)
5.43 mm Louis Mattis	5.766 (.227)

Rifle cartridges

Name	Bullet	Case type	Case length	Rim	Base	Shoulder	Neck	Cartridge length	Primer
.19 Calhoon Hornet .19 Calhoon Hornet Calhoon cartridges are a class of .19 caliber cartridges created by James Calhoon, a firearms designer with an in interest in .19 caliber cartridges. Calhoon began working with .19 caliber after his interest was piqued from learning about British sub-caliber rifle trials in the early 1970s...	5.03 (.198)
35.31 (1.390)	8.89 (.350)	7.47 (.294)	7.26 (.286)	5.46 (.215)

.19 Badger	5.03 (.198)
5.69 (.224)
.19-223	5.03 (.198)
44.7 (1.760)	9.52 (.375)	9.47 (.373)
5.69 (.224)
5MM Craig	5.182 (.204)	EVRC	25.93 (1.021)	8.13 (.320)	6.53 (.257)	6.5 (.256)	5.87 (.231)	31.5 (1.24)	CCI 450
.204 Ruger .204 Ruger The .204 Ruger is a centerfire rifle cartridge developed by Hornady and Ruger. At the time of its introduction in 2004, the .204 Ruger was the highest velocity commercially produced ammunition, and the only cartridge produced commercially for bullets of .204 inch/5 mm caliber.-Characteristics:The...	5.182 (.204)
46.99 (1.85)	9.60 (.378)	9.56 (.376)	6.40 (.252)	5.87 (.231)	57.40 (2.26)
.20 Tactical .20 Tactical The .20 Tactical is a wildcat centerfire rifle cartridge, based on the .223 Remington case, necked down to fire a .204" caliber bullet. The .20 Tactical was designed by Todd Kindler and predates the .204 Ruger factory round. The case has approximately 3 grains less powder capacity than the popular...
5mm/35 SMc	5.182 (.204)
39.52 (1.556)	12.01 (.473)	11.96 (.471)	11.68 (.460)	5.87 (.231)	51.56 (2.03)
5.45 x 39 mm M74	5.68 (.221)
39.62 (1.56)	10.01 (.394)	10.03 (.395)	7.290 (.287)	6.248 (.246)	56.39 (2.22)
.22-250	5.689 (.224)
48.56 (1.912)	12.01 (.473)	11.91 (.469)	10.52 (.414)	6.45 (.254)	59.69 (2.35)
.220 Russian .220 Russian The .220 Russian cartridge was developed in the late 1950s for deer hunting in Russia. It is a 7.62x39 cartridge necked down to hold a 5.6mm bullet. It was later adopted by Finland, and by around 1965 was being produced by SAKO and Lapua. When it was introduced to the United States, Sako, and...	5.689 (.224)
34.93 (1.375)	11.20 (.441)	11.18 (.440)	10.95 (.431)	6.223 (.245)	46.23 (1.82)	-
.220 Swift .220 Swift The .220 Swift is a semi-rimmed rifle cartridge developed by Winchester and introduced in 1935. It was the first factory loaded rifle cartridge with a muzzle velocity of over...	5.689 (.224)
56.01 (2.205)	12.01 (.473)	11.30 (.445)	10.21(.402)	6.60 (.260)	68.07 (2.68)
.224 Weatherby Magnum .224 Weatherby Magnum The .224 Weatherby Magnum is a sporting cartridge that was developed in 1963 by Roy Weatherby after about 10 years of development. It is a proprietary cartridge with no major firearms manufacturers chambering rifles for it other than Weatherby...	5.689 (.224)	-	48.84 (1.923)	10.92 (.430)	10.54 (.415)	10.01 (.394)	6.40 (.252)	59.18 (2.33)	-
.225 Winchester .225 Winchester The .225 Winchester cartridge was created in 1964 by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. Based upon the .219 Donaldson Wasp cartridge, it is a semi-rimmed cartridge, which was an oddity for a cartridge introduced at the time...	5.702 (.2245)
49.02 (1.930)	12.01 (.473)
.218 Bee .218 Bee The .218 Bee is a .22 caliber centerfire rifle cartridge designed for varmint hunting by Winchester in 1938. The cartridge was originally chambered in lever-action rifles, which may have ultimately led to its lack of popularity...	5.689 (.224)
34.16 (1.345)	10.36 (.408)	8.865 (.349)	8.357 (.329)	6.147 (.242)	42.67 (1.680)
.22 Hornet .22 Hornet The .22 Hornet is a low-end vermin, small-game and predator centerfire rifle cartridge. It is considerably more powerful than the .22 WMR and the .17 HMR, achieving higher velocity with a bullet twice the weight. The Hornet also differs very significantly from these in that it is not a rimfire...	5.689 (.224)
35.64 (1.403)	8.890 (.350)	7.569 (.298)	7.010 (.276)	6.172 (.243)	43.76 (1.723)
.22 Spitfire .22 Spitfire The .22 Spitfire is an American rifle cartridge.Designed by Melvin M. Johnson of Johnson Guns Inc. for their conversion of the M1 carbine, this wildcat was introduced in 1963...	5.69 (.224)	rimless bottlenecked	32.77 (1.29)	9.04 (.356)	8.97 (.353)	8.43 (.332)	6.43 (.253)	41.91 (1.65)	Boxer small rifle
.223 WSSM .223 WSSM The .223 WSSM is a .224 caliber rifle cartridge created by Winchester and Browning based on a shortened version of the Winchester Short Magnum case.- History :...	5.69 (.224)
42.42 (1.67)	13.59 (.535)	14.10 (.555)	13.82 (.544)	6.91 (.272)	59.94 (2.36)
.221 Remington Fireball .221 Remington Fireball The .221 Remington Fireball was created by Remington Arms Company in 1963 for use in their single-shot bolt-action pistol called the XP-100. This was a special round designed for an experimental pistol, and has the highest velocity of any commercial pistol cartridge.-History:In the early 1960s...	5.702 (.2245)
35.56 (1.40)	9.601 (.378)	9.550 (.376)	9.195 (.362)	6.426 (.253)	46.48 (1.83)
.222 Remington .222 Remington The .222 Remington aka the Triple Deuce/Triple Two/Treble Two is a centerfire rifle cartridge introduced in 1950, and was the first commercial rimless .22 cartridge made in the United States...	5.702 (.2245)
43.18 (1.700)	9.60 (.378)	9.55 (.376)	9.07 (.357)	6.42 (.253)	54.10 (2.130)
.222 Remington Magnum .222 Remington Magnum The .222 Remington Magnum was a short-lived commercially produced cartridge derived from the .222 Remington. Originally developed for a US prototype military rifle in 1958, the cartridge was not adopted by the military, but was introduced commercially in sporting rifles.-Development:The .222 Rem....	5.689 (.224)
46.99 (1.850)	9.60 (.378)	9.55 (.376)	9.07 (.357)	6.48 (.253)	57.91 (2.280)
5.56 mm NATO, .223 Remington .223 Remington The .223 Remington is a sporting cartridge with almost the same external dimensions as the 5.56×45mm NATO military cartridge. The name is commonly pronounced either two-two-three or two-twenty-three. It is loaded with a diameter, jacketed bullet, with weights ranging from , though the most common...	5.689 (.224)
44.70 (1.760)	9.601 (.378)	9.550 (.376)	8.992 (.354)	6.426 (.253)	57.40 (2.260)
5.6 x 50 Magnum, 5.6 x 50R	5.69 (.224)
50.04 (1.97)	9.55 (.376)	9.52 (.375)	9.02 (.355)	6.45 (.254)	56.13 (2.21)
5.6x52mmR 5.6x52mmR The 5.6x52mmR cartridge was created by Charles Newton and produced by Savage Arms in 1912. It is also known as the .22 Savage High-Power and .22 "Imp", and is based upon the .25-35 Winchester cartridge necked down to accept a .227in/.228in diameter bullet.Its inherent accuracy, relatively high...	5.8 (.227)	Rimmed	52.00 (2.05)	12.7 (.500)	10.6 (.416)	9.1 (.360)	6.4 (.252)	64.00 (2.51)
5.8 x 42 mm DBP87 5.8 x 42 mm DBP87 The 5.8×42mm / DBP87 is a rifle cartridge developed in the People's Republic of China. There is limited information on this cartridge, although the Chinese military claims that it is superior to the 5.56×45mm NATO and 5.45×39mm Soviet cartridges...	5.994 (.236)
42.545 (1.675)	10.389 (.409)	10.389 (.409)
6.706 (.264)	57.5 (2.266)

Rimfire cartridges

Pistol cartridges

Revolver cartridges

Rifle cartridges

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