Ammo Reviews
Top 5 Best Whitetail Cartridges (And Some That Are Not So Good)
if you want to get into the deer woods for the first time — or the first time in a long time — it is mindboggling to see an everchanging list of rifles and even more cartridges to choose from. Here are my top five deer cartridges worth looking at, and a few you should think twice about.
Speer Gold Dot 115 Grain Hollow Points: The Perfect Medicine?
I have a lot of Gold Dot ammunition in the magazines of my carry pistols. Betting my life on it is the highest endorsement that I can possibly give.
What If Jeff Cooper Could Have Had Today’s 9mm Ammo?: A Hypothetical
For a very, very long time up until recent years, the 9mm Parabellum (9mm Luger, 9x19) was seen as a weak sister with feeble “stopping power” and the .45 ACP was seen as a benchmark of adequate defensive handgun potency. No one man was as responsible for that perception as Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, USMC (ret.). But what if he'd been exposed to modern 9mm ammo?
If you live in a region plagued by snakes—or visit them now and again—you might have wondered about the usefulness of snake shot. Snake shot can be quite useful when it comes to dispatching rattlesnakes and other potentially dangerous, but tiny, slithering creatures.
5.56 NATO vs. .223 Remington: What Is the Practical Difference?
Is the 5.56 the same as the .223, but not metric? Or are both rounds completely different? And if so, is it enough to matter? Let's dig into the history of these loads, dissect some ammo, and do some comparison shooting on the range.
The 22 WRF: The Forgotten 22 Rimfire Round
.22 WRF is mostly a round for old guns, but after shooting the round and seeing what it could do, I get the impression that .22 WRF would make an excellent meat-hunting load for the hunter equipped with a .22 Magnum rifle, where conventional Magnum loads would leave too little left to eat. That was, after all, why .22 WRF came into existence in the first place.
Hornady American Whitetail .30-30 Hunting Ammunition: It Delivers!
Hornady American Whitetail ammo in .30-30 Winchester delivers the goods. It's accurate and reliably harvests game as long as you do your part.
The .44 Special and Hornady Critical Defense
Defensive cartridges come and go, and many are underappreciated. The 10mm, the .30 Carbine, 16 gauge, .41 Magnum, and many more are adequate, capable, and honestly offer something somewhat unique that’s often ignored. One caliber that was briefly very successful but quickly faded away was the .44 Special. The cartridge hasn’t completely disappeared, though. It […]
Federal Syntech 138 Grain Subsonic: The Perfect 9mm Carry Load?
The 9mm shines with higher velocity and Federal is perhaps unwittingly loading their Syntech 138 grain subsonic load a bit warmer than we would expect. The end result is a heavy-for-caliber load running at a fair speed that causes a fair amount of damage and excellent penetration.
Remington UMC .223 55gr FMJ Ammo: What is UMC?
If you own a rifle that shoots .223 the ammo options are endless. Remington UMC is a great choice for range and small game hunting.