The bros at Lucky Gunner are a pretty good bellweather of the current state of the ammunition crisis. I’ve worked with them in the past and have bought a lot of ammo from them, and they’ve always been stand-up guys,…
A day or two after the Connecticut shooting, when I was still working at the gun range, the conversations swirled about how such an event would affect the gun-loving community. We had already seen sales of firearms increasing, but it…
One of the series of posts that was lost in the recent crash/hack of the site was a series from 2012 looking at running steel cased pistol ammo in a modern handgun. Because this post was so popular, I decided…
We have talked at length about using quality jacketed hollow point ammo for self defense in the past, and we’re not going to revisit that topic today; rather I want to look at some options for people who for whatever…
It’s ironic because normally you’d expect the .45 Colt rounds to be loaded with all lead bullet and the .45 ACP rounds to be loaded with the bonded JHP.
As the ammo shortage of 2013 continues into Q2, we’ve started to see some pretty crazy theories about why it’s happening, including my favorite “the government is buying ammo to keep supplies low”, which is usually tied to one of…
Not actual instant death, just Hornady TAP 200 grain .45 ACP+P.
We love our .45 ACP pistols in this country. 1911s are always going to sell, and it seems like at one juncture or another everyone buys a 1911. But it’s not just 1911s that sell, because any .45 ACP pistol…
From left to right: the powder charge in a .410 PDX round, then two different views of the actual payload. An interesting note, when we tested the .410 PDX from a proper shotgun in ballistic gel, the defense disks penetrated…
