Tag: ammunition

  • Ammo Prices

    MrColionNoir on the expensive food we need to buy for our guns: This is exactly why I buy ammo bulk in advance, rather than a few boxes day of.  It hurts less on actual shooting days because you spent the money so long ago. I guess I could buy a .22 and shoot with that.…

  • How To Read Russian Ammo Cans

    AKA Spam Cans… a video on how to translate the writing into English: The video is long, but there are a lot of great examples for anyone that’s into Russian military surplus ammo and wants to know what’s written on the outside. Hat tip: Peter

  • Google Visualization Of Small Arms And Ammunition Imports & Exports

    The legal (not illegal) trade: Small arms, such as revolvers, assault rifles and light machine guns, and ammunition represent a $8.5 billion industry, and three quarters of the world’s small arms lie in the hand of civilians—more than 650 million civilian arms.  The app was produced by Google’s Creative Lab team in collaboration with the Igarape…

  • Deep Penetration Ammo

    The newest in extreme long range armor piercing ammunition: Waiting to strike: Because sometimes regular rounds can’t get the job done.  This is the absolute cutting edge when it comes to boutique dick humor rounds. Vigilant Spectre is an early adopter (yea no surprise there, I know), and word on the street is Buck Yeager…

  • DIY Ammo Can Speaker Box

    Check out the tutorial over at Instructables.  The top picture I actually grabbed from a company called thodio‘s website, where they make the ammo can speakers and sell them.  If you have more money than time and know-how, you can pick one up from them for $307 – $430 depending on the specs you want.…

  • Manufacturing .22 LR Ammunition

    CCI breaks it down for us: They manufacture 4 Million rounds of rimfire in a day?!   Wow… that’s a lot of shooting. CCI does make some beautiful looking .22 LR ammo, compared to the Winchester and Federal bulkpack stuff.  Interesting how much human interaction is still involved in the process.  The video looks oldschool though,…