5mm Clement

Spanish centerfire pistol cartridge From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The 5mm Clement is a centerfire cartridge was designed in 1897 and produced for early self-loading pocket pistols such as the 1897 Spanish Charola-Anitua pistol and the 1903 Belgian Clement pistol. 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 tumble in flight. The Charola-Anitua pistol was produced in very limited numbers, and Clement pistol production shifted to the .25 ACP cartridge after 1906.[1]

TypePistol
PlaceoforiginSpain
DesignerClement
Designed1897
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5mm Clement
TypePistol
Place of originSpain
Production history
DesignerClement
Designed1897
Produced1898–1938
Specifications
Case typeSemi-rimmed, bottleneck
Bullet diameter.2 in (5.1 mm)
Ballistic performance
Bullet mass/type Velocity Energy
28 gr (2 g) FMJ 1,030 ft/s (310 m/s) 65 ft⋅lbf (88 J)
Source: "Textbook of Automatic Pistols" [1]
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