All modern metallic cartridges consist of a brass case that contains gunpowder capped off with a bullet. Rimfire and centerfire cartridges are both metallic cartridges; the difference is in how they ...

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Rimfire and centerfire show up in gun shop and range talk, but their names hide a simple idea: where the firing pin strikes the cartridge. In a rimfire round the primer is inside the rim, so the gun ...

Throughout the 1800s, firearm development was cartridge development. Engineers, inventors, gunsmiths, and crackpots tried various ways to speed reloads by integrating fulminate primer, powder, and ...

There is little doubt that the most popular rifle and handgun cartridge in this country is the .22 rimfire round. Annual ammunition sales also indicate it is the most fired round in America, and it is ...

If there was ever a time to get serious about preparing for an ammunition shortage, it would have been about three years ago. Still, it might be wise to get (and learn to use) a reloading kit. Sure, ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. For decades, ammunition prices have been on the rise in ...

A rimfire rifle is what all shooters should be started on. They’re the most fun and affordable guns to shoot, and a house without one is as desolate as a Monday is long. You can buy a .22 rifle for ...

The reason for the ammunition shortage should be obvious. After all, with gun sales continuing to break records all those people buying semiautomatic rifles and handguns need a lot of ammunition.