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"'Scuse me, while I whip this out..."
-Cleavon Little
Per DST-1160G-514-81-VOL1
(Small Caliber Ammunition Guide, Volume 1)
9x17
Other Designations:
9-mm Browning Short, 9-mm Corto,
9-mm Kurz, .380 ACP, .380 Automatic,
9-mm M34
The 9x17 cartridge was introduced in Europe
in 1908 as the 9-mm Browning Short and in the
United States as the .380 ACP. The full metal
jacketed bullet weighs approximately 6.2
grams. Muzzle velocity varies from 275 to
310 m/s, depending on the manufacturer.
Practical range is 15 to 25 meters.
In addition to widespread use in police and
defense weapons, this cartridge has been used
in military pistols, notably by
Czechoslovakia in the Vz 64 machine pistol,
by Spain, and by Italy in the Model 1934
Beretta pistols.
9x20SR (Semi-Rimmed)
Other Designations:
9-mm Browning Long, 9-mm Swedish Model 07
This cartridge was designed by John M.
Browning for the M1903 military automatic
pistol, which was produced by Fabrique
Nationale of Belgium and adopted by Sweden
as the M 07 pistol. It remained in service
until about 1940, when it was replaced by
the 9x19 cartridge in the M1940 Swedish
pistol. This cartridge was also used in
other models of pistols and submachineguns,
but it is now obsolete for military purposes.
With a full metal jacketed bullet weighing
approximately 7 grams and a muzzle velocity
of about 335 m/s, the cartridge is not quite
the equal of the more widely known 9x19
Parabellum cartridge. Its practical range is
about the same: 25 to 50 meters from a pistol
and 75 to 100 meters from a submachinegun.
9x23SR (Semi-Rimmed)
Other Designations:
.38 ACP, .38 Super Automatic
The designation .38 ACP is not to be con-
fused with the .380 ACP designation of the
9x17 Browning Short cartridge; the two
cartridges are quite different. The 9x23SR
was not developed as a metric-designation
cartridge; it was introduced in 1900 by Colt
for their Browing designed .38 automatic
pistol. In addition to Colt, pistols
chambered for this cartridge were made by
Webley & Scott. The 9x23SR cartridge has
approximately the same characteristics as
the 9x19 Luger cartridge. In 1929, a higher-
velocity load using the same case was
introduced as the .38 Colt Super Automatic
cartridge, and headstamps may be found with
this designation. Llama, Star, and Astra
automatic pistols have been made for this
cartridge.
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And that, my friends, is that.
armus_rattus
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