What is a catridge?(the one that fires)(URGENT)?

Question

What is a catridge?
i mean the one that fires.
Is it a bullets? or just some powders?
i saw pictures in the book, it was rapped by a paper bag, i want to know what is in the paper bag.

and what are the ingridients to make cartridge.

Thanks!!

the book i read is about the Civil War.
what are the ingridients to make cartridge back then?

and i also want to know what is cartridge for?

Answer 1

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A cartridge or round packages the bullet, gunpowder and primer into a single metallic case precisely made to fit the firing chamber of a firearm. The primer is a small charge of impact-sensitive chemical that may be located at the center of the case head (centerfire ammunition) or at its rim (rimfire ammunition). Electrically-fired cartridges have also been made. A cartridge without a bullet is called a blank.

Answer 2

These days a cartridge is typically a brass case that holds the propellant, the primer in the base that sets off the propellant when struck by the firing pin, and the bullet. In the muzzleloaing era the cartridge was a paper tube containing the powder and the bullet. It was normal then to bite the end off the cartridge, pour in the powder (if a flint-loader from earlier times, you left a little powder to put in the flash pan), then you stuffed in the bullet and set it with the ramrod. In the Civil War era, percussion caps had replaced the flintlock, and these were kept separate from the cartridge, but the cap was the equivalent of the primer that's incorporated in modern self-contained cartridges.
By the way, muzzleloaders are quite popular today, and you may find somebody with one to show you the whole thing. We often use "quick-loaders" now to hold the bullet and an appropriate charge of powder, and it's basically a plastic version of the old Civil War era cartridge.

Answer 3

A cartridge (aka, mistakenly, bullet) consists of 4 components: primer, casing, powder and projectile (bullet).

Hopefully I'm answering the correct question, I've never heard the word "catridge" before, unless it was the slang "cat'ridge" (best recollection is from the book "Red Badge of Courage").

The "paper bag" you maybe referring to is what soldiers in the 18th and 19th centuries used. In that case, the "bag" was a paper cylinder containing black powder and a bullet. The soldier would bite off the tip of the paper, use a little of the powder to prime the flash pan, and dump the rest, "bag" and all into the barrel. The "bag" would act as wadding for the bullet.

Answer 4

Let's break down the components of a 'cartridge.' First:

Bullet: The projectile which is discharged when fired (usually made of lead).

Case: The shell or husk (usually made of brass) which holds the bullet, gunpowder and primer in place.

Cartridge: The complete unit, hence the bullet, bullet casing and primed shell.

Now, during the Civil War very few weapon used cartridges, as they were ball and blackpowder muskets. The soilders carried the bullets (referred to as 'balls,' or 'musket balls') in a leather bag, the black powder in a powder horn and the musket had to tediously be loaded each time by placing a bit of powder in the flash pan, dropping more into the musket's muzzle, ramming some wadding down the barrel along with ball or bullet. So you can see how much more convenient cartridges have become! What you may have seen in your book is something called paper cartridges, which merely held a pre-measured amount of blackpowder for loading muzzle loaders and other early blackpowder guns.

Hope that helped.

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Answer 5

Free eag is close accept the cartridge you are refuring to is a black powder cartridge and has no case or primer built in . it is later than a black powder flintlock as pour the powder in and wad and projectile(bullet or shot) this style is most commonly used in early revolvers (civel war era) and early breach loadres with an external primer. Though a flinlock style was used with lesser succes on the long gun because the bag often prevented the powder from igniting properly
The bag holds everything together as a modern brass cartridge and was quicker to load then the brass came about with great succes.

Answer 6

In the old days(civil war erra) a cartridge used waxed paper for a caseing. today most cases are made from brass. The bullet was lead and either held in the end of the wax paper or was inserted seperately into the gun. and a precussioncap went on a fireing nipple at the breech end (some moderen black powder rifles still use this method of fireing. It is sometimes referd to as a spped load. For moe information do a seach for BLACK POWDER GUNS or THE HISTORY OF GUNS

Answer 7

It is the actual round that goes into the breach.
The 'paper bag' contains gunpowder.