Flobert (ammunition)
A Flobert cartridge is a type of ammunition in which the detonating agent is also the propellant. The inventor was the French gunsmith Louis Nicolas Auguste Flobert , who in the middle of the 19th century also used fumed mercury , which had previously only been used as an ignition agent, as a propellant. He had this cartridge patented in 1846.
Flobert rifles , which are also known as Zimmer rifles or Zimmerstutzen , fire weak rimfire ammunition with a round or pointed bullet in caliber 4 to 9 mm; Flobert shotgun cartridges and blank cartridges are also available.
7 × 64 mm , .243 Winchester , .222 Remington , .22 lfB
.577 Nitro-Express / 6 mm Flobert
9 mm Flobert shot ammunition
literature
- Jeff Kinard: Pistols. An Illustrated History of Their Impact . ABC-Clio, Santa Barbara CA et al. 2003, ISBN 1-85109-470-9 , ( Weapons and warfare series ), p. 111, book preview .