5mm Clement

5mm Clement
Type	Pistol
Place of origin	Belgium
Production history
Designer	Clement
Produced	1897
Specifications
Bullet diameter	.2 in (5.1 mm)
Ballistic performance
Bullet weight/type Velocity Energy 28 gr (2 g) FMJ 1,030 ft/s (310 m/s) 65 ft·lbf (88 J)
Source(s): "Textbook of Automatic Pistols" [1]

The 5mm Clement is a centerfire cartridge produced for early self-loading pocket pistols made Charola-Anitua and a 1903 design by Clement. 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]

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