Craig Boddington was the senior contributing editor of our modern gun and ammunition caliber dictionary. Craig was involved in the development and testing of many of these and writes from first hand experience. This dictionary was written exclusively for Wholesale Hunter with unique information found nowhere else.
GUN CALIBER DICTIONARY
Rifle
24 Nosler
The 24 Nosler was designed for the AR-15 and extremely long .24-caliber (6mm) bullet, such as Nosler’s 105-grain Custom Competition. SAAMI drawing I have, chamber pressure was set at 55,000 psi, and nominal velocity of a 105-grain bullet from a 24-inch barrel at that pressure is 2,575 fps — LG Outdoors