Category Archives: Ammo

ARFCOM user Molon has posted an major test of the M855A1 service round, which you can read below. M855A1 ammunition is manufactured at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant near Independence, Missouri.  The lot of Lake City M855A1 ammunition that was evaluated for this article was manufactured in January of 2021. There were no malfunctionsContinue reading “M855A1 Accuracy and Velocity”

Hopefully my testing will offer at least a tiny sample to help prove or disprove the new round.

I know a lot of people probably don’t think much of Armscor’s ammo. Most 10MM users surely don’t think much of the vast majority of 10MM ammo on the market. I get it. It’s always closer to .40SW power than true 10MM. That’s fine with me to be honest. I don’t need 10mm Norma pressure ammo to goContinue reading “Armscor 10MM Ammo”

Shared from a FB friend People have asked me: “Why did you join the Army/” I replied: “To learn a skill.” Here’s a synopsis – I finally began my demolition training 0n 11 December. My mathematics skills came in handy. It was easy to think that one needed only place a stick of dynamite orContinue reading “Craig Explains Exposives”

This post contains a September 1984 magazine article from SWAT magazine that discusses the SS109 cartridge that was in the process of being adopted at the time and contains seven tables of test data.

Almost anywhere you go on the internet and read about guns used for combat or defense you will find the guys who will tell you that to kill anything bigger then a cat, you need the .308 . Often this is followed up with the smarmy little quip, “308 turning cover into concealment since 1953.”   Continue reading “7.62 NATO, Turning cover into concealment since…. well, not as often as you may think.”

Taken from a Russian telegram on this new 6.02x41mm cartridge: Russia has created a cartridge with increased penetration for small arms. The Tula Cartridge Factory has patented a cartridge with increased penetration for small arms, which can be used even in a Kalashnikov assault rifle. The purpose is to destroy enemy personnel, including lightly armoredContinue reading “New Russian 6.02x41mm Rifle Cartridge”

The 9×23 is one of those rounds quickly being forgotten with time. The idea was to offer up a round designed to win the various action handgun competitions. The case was stronger than the .38 super and so it can operate at higher pressures. It did away with the semi rimmed case of the superContinue reading “The 9x23MM”

The 220 Russian isn’t heard of much anymore because it gave birth to something that took the case and turned it into something so good.

While over at Brady’s the other day I was bemoaning my drastically depleted stocks of 16 gauge ammo after last year’s slaughter-rama squirrel season. He gave me this old box of ACTIV he’d reloaded who knows how long ago. ACTIV was a big thing back int he day for a few minutes. I have heardContinue reading “Remember these?”