FREE Official Cartridge Diagrams on SAAMI Website
SAAMI, the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute, is an association of the nation’s leading manufacturers of firearms, ammunition and components. Founded in 1926, SAAMI promulgates industry standards for firearms ammunition safety, interchangeability, reliability and quality.
New SAAMI Website Offers Free, Printable Cartridge Diagrams
SAAMI recently rolled out a new website loaded with invaluable info for shooters. From the new SAAMI site you can access hundreds of FREE official cartridge diagrams and chamber drawings for all ammo types: Rimfire, Pistol Cartridges, Rifle Cartridges, and Shotshells. Are you looking for the official 17 HMR diagram, or 6.5 Creedmoor, or 7mm Winchester Short Magnum? You’ll find them all, along with hundreds more, on the SAAMI site. Said Rick Patterson, SAAMI’s managing director. “This redesigned website will help provide greater visibility and understanding of SAAMI’s important work.”
Please Read These Instructions Carefully
To access the cartridge diagrams, go to SAAMI’s Technical Information webpage, and CLICK ON Cartridge and Chamber Drawings to reveal categories. You will find links to 20 new and/or updated cartridges there.
To find the full set of cartridge diagrams, you need to click on the link to Current Cartridge & Chamber Drawing documents — American National Standards Published by SAAMI. There you will find links to four categories of diagrams: Rimfire, Shotshell, Centerfire Pistol/Revolver, and Centerfire Rifle. These links will launch large PDF files that have diagrams of the cartridge types. NOTE: These are very large PDF documents. For example, the Centerfire Pistol/Revolver PDF is 189 pages long. You must scroll down to see the cartridge type you want.
Unfortunately, the organization of the SAAMI site is much less convenient than before. Previously you could access a page and then simply click on a link for the cartridge you wanted to view. Below is a sample of the first page of the previous Rifle Cartridge Diagram List.
Red arrows show you where to click, after you launched the page under the old website.
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SAAMI Standards Documents With Additional Info
You can also click the subcategory links under SAAMI/ANSI Standards to see multiple diagrams in a larger PDF file. You may have to click the SAAMI/ANSI standards line first to display the four sub-categories: Pistol/Revolver, Centerfire Rifle, Rimfire, and Shotshell.
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Note, you can also access the more extensive SAAMI/ANSI Standards documents, downloadable from the series of links just below. These also include info on pressure testing so may be of more interest overall than just specific chamber or cartridge dimensions. The Chamber drawings can be accessed from the LIST Pages, which are are hot-linked PDF files. You need to click on each specific cartridge title, as shown in the instructions!
Maybe we have different deffinitions of “free” and “downloads” but at the bottom of the diagrams I saw this >>> COPYRIGHT © SPORTING ARMS AND AMMUNITION MANUFACTURERS’ INSTITUTE, INC. (“SAAMI”). ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Reproduction, republication or redistribution of SAAMI technical drawings and data sheets in any manner, in whole or in part, without SAAMI’s prior written
consent is prohibited.
* please correct above spelling>> **definitions
Looking at the drawings, if you take the tolerances to their extremes, it is interesting to see what sort of “fit” you would have with a minimum cartridge in a maximum chamber.
Dear sir,
How in the world could you let the manufacturers produce .45s with small pistol primers? This is a diaster for reloaders! Most of us have made the dicovery by Jaming up our reloading machines. What were you people thinking?
I thought you were there to be helpful not to infuriate those of us who use the products. I can see the tree huggers have won out. There are many of us looking for an explanation.
This is somewhat off-topic, sorry, but I can no longer access the Rifle cartridge dimensioned drawings beyond Page 1. My computer freezes the download, and I have to cancel that operation. This has been going on since at least the beginning of October.
I am still able to access the entire Pistol and Shotgun drawing libraries.
Please investigate this phenomenon to determine whether it’s something in your site.
Thank you!
Hello,
I’m hoping you can help, I’ve downloaded the .pdfs of cartridges, but whenever I click on a cartridge to get the drawing adobe reader says it can’t open the file.
Is there some kind of lock on the pdf?
Thanks,
All the links to SAAMI info (printable drawings) do not work.
Editor: You were looking at a 2011 article. On 12/23/2022 we just updated links. Now you can still find the cartridge drawings in larger PDF files.
Good afternoon
I’m looking for 2 loaded cartridge dimensional drawings for:
● .433 Peabody
● .43 Spanish
Can you help with this?
The SAMMI site isn’t much help. Thanks
Brian K. Powell
701 River Bend Blvd.
Kent, OH. 44240