Federal’s Hydra-Shok Deep gains the addition of .380 Auto. (Photo: Federal) Federal began rolling out its new Hydra-Shok Deep .380 Auto cartridge earlier this month, with shipments arriving at dealers. The new handgun ammunition boasts…
Dan Z. for TTAG What’s the difference between 5.56mm NATO and .223 Remington, anyhow? The rounds are supposed to be interchangeable…kinda, sorta, maybe…right? The difference in the round itself: the NATO round is a little…
Courtesy Xi’an Modern Chemistry Research Institute and 3dprintingindustry.com By Ivan the Troll Chinese researchers from the Xi’an Modern Chemistry Research Institute have found a technique that couples high explosives with SLA (resin) 3D printing to…
9mm, 9x19mm, 9mm Parabellum, 9mm Luger (Dan Z. for TTAG) The difference between 9mm and 9mm Luger ammunition is either nothing or the latter is part of the former. Depending on how you define it….
From Federal: Upon impact, nine buckshot pellets break into up to eighteen, dumping more energy and doubling wound channels to deliver the best terminal performance possible in any buckshot load. There have been vast improvements…
Courtesy Thundervoice By Thundervoice About five months ago, I wrote a piece for TTAG about the cost of reloading. Two or so weeks ago, I was visiting with a fellow reloader who had just ordered…
Courtesy Reddit Lead is the most common metal used in bullets for a number of reasons: cost, malleability, expansion on impact…and of course density. The more weight you can cram into the projectile the more…
Douglas Haig takes questions from reporters at a news conference in Chandler, Ariz. Douglas Haig has been sentenced to 13 months in federal prison after selling home-loaded bullets to the gunman who killed 58 people…
Dan Z. for TTAG This is the second of two posts on the basics of reloading ammunition. See part one here. If there’s one thing I like more than shooting it’s being a cheap bastard…
Besides being mechanically inept, I don’t have a particularly green thumb. In my 23 years of military service, tending to the greenery was a work detail, or, more often, a punishment (oops, I mean “additional…