Ammunition Advice

More often than not, when choosing ammo, target shooters tend to pick according to their budget first.  And, like with every hobby, budgeting is important, but so is quality — the best of both worlds. We all want a high-quality product that can be relied on, that will perform how we want it to perform, […]

Everybody has their way of relaxing and blowing off steam. Nothing quite does it like a day at the gun range.  That familiar gunpowder smell and the noise, it all has a calming effect only known to a true gun lover — then the zen-like moment when you lock onto your target. It makes stressful

Back in 2002, when Federal Premium presented its HST ammunition, it was designated and restricted for law enforcement use only. Developed to meet certain performance demands that many police departments and government agencies abide by, it quickly became staple ammunition in the industry. One of the pressing challenges in the ammunition design was accomplishing larger

6.5 Grendel ammunition is a low-recoil, high-accuracy intermediate cartridge designed specifically for the AR-15 platform at medium to long ranges (200–800 yards). That said, it can also be used with alternative firearms like the Kalashnikov system or bolt-action rifles. When compared to fully-powered rifle ammunition, intermediate cartridges have a shorter range and less power. However,

The 50 BMG (Browning Machine Gun) is a large 50 caliber cartridge packing some serious long-range firepower in a 12.7 x 99mm NATO round. It was developed for the M2 Browning machine gun over 110 years ago, and was based on the .30-06 Springfield cartridge. Today, it’s also used as a long-range sniper rifle and

“The well-known mouse gun caliber or the .32 ACP is the product of one of the firearms inventions greats” — John Moses Browning (1825 – 1926)  Developed in 1899 to be used in the FN Browning M1900 single-action semi-automatic pistol, and later for the FN Model 1903 or Browning No.2 pocket pistol, the .32 ACP

Today, PMC ammo is known and used worldwide. But how did it come to be? PMC ammunition is made by one of the main South Korean defense product manufacturing companies — the Poongsan Corporation. Established in 1968, the Poongsan Corporation was, and still is, known for producing fabricated nonferrous material and precision forging. By 1973,

In 1975, Cascade Cartridge Inc. (CCI) developed the first high-performance, hyper-velocity .22 caliber Long Rifle (LR) rimfire ammunition — the CCI Stinger. The .22 rimfire LR has been around for a while. It got its start way back in 1845, which makes it the oldest reliable round still manufactured today.  Safe to say, the .22

The 7.62 x 25mm (known as 7.62 x 25mm Tokarev) is a Russian, rimless, high-velocity, low caliber, bottlenecked pistol cartridge that was mostly used in ex-Soviet states and China. However, after the Cold War ended, many weapons — especially pistols — from those former Soviet states became available worldwide, creating the demand that helped this

The 5.7x28mm caliber high-velocity round was developed in response to a NATO request to replace the 9mm cartridge.  The manufacturer, FN, first used the 5.7x28mm for its Five-seveN pistol and P90 personal defense weapon.  Fact: The Ruger-57 soon followed as the next handgun model designed to use 5.7x28mm ammo. FN’s NATO deal fell through because