Archive for Ammunition
New .243 Winchester Load from Black Hills
Posted by: | CommentsAmong the new loads introduced by Black Hills Ammunition at the 2010 SHOT Show was a new .243 Win cartridge. The Black Hills loading pushes a 58 grain Hornady V-MAX bullet at 3800 fps for 1859 ft-lbs of energy. The Hornady V-MAX is a polymer tipped hollow point designed for varmint and small game.
Black Hills Introduces New Load for .338 Norma Magnum
Posted by: | CommentsBlack Hills Ammunition introduced a new load for the recently introduced .338 Normal Magnum at the 2010 SHOT Show. Less than two years old, the .338 Norma Magnum was designed to be a more efficient alternative to the .338 Lapua. The Black Hills load pushes a 300 grain Sierra Matchking at 2725 fps for almost 5000 ft-lbs (4946) of energy.
LuckyGunner has Primers In Stock
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Anyone who reloads knows primers have been tough to come by during the past year. Fortunately site sponsor LuckyGunner.com has primers in stock and ready to ship out today.
As of this writing, LuckGunner.com has small and large pistol and rifle primers in stock. Inventory is updated in real time, so if it says “five in stock”, there really are five in stock. Also, LuckyGunner.com adds the HazMat shipping fee into the cost of the primer, so there is no guess work on what the “final” price is.
From LuckyGunner.com:
We’ve finally started carrying primers! Even though they’re hard to come by, you can see that we’ve got a bunch of ‘em in stock here. A couple things to note about the primers. First, the price already includes a $22.50 hazmat fee…and that hazmat fee is on a per-order basis, not per box of primers. This means that if people order in bulk, they save a lot of money pretty quickly. Our Wolf LPPs are $0.035 in bulk (assuming you order 3 boxes of 5k per box), including the hazmat fee.
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Remington R-15 Chambered in .450 Bushmaster
Posted by: | CommentsRemington introduced a new R-15 at the 2010 SHOT Show chambered in .450 Bushmaster. Along with the R-15, Remington also showed a new loading in .450 Bushmaster.
The new R-15 rifle has an 18” free-floated barrel and a single stage trigger. The .450 comes with four-round magazines and a lockable hard case. The new R-15 is outfitted with a Mossy Oak New Break-Up Coverage.
Silver State Armory 6.8 SPC Ammunition
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Silver State Armory announced the production of three new 6.8 SPC loads: a plinking round, a tactical/law enforcement round and a specialized armor piercing round.
The tactical round uses an 85 grain Barnes TSX bullet travelling at 3070 fps from a 16” barrel. When fired into 10% ballistic gelatin, the bullet has an impressive wound cavity in the first eight inches, and penetrates a total of 17.38”. The recovered diameter of the bullet averaged 0.546”.
Les Baer’s New Caliber: .264 LBC-AR
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One of the several new cartridge introductions at the 2010 SHOT Show is the .264 LBC-AR. Created by Les Baer Custom, the new cartridge is designed to be exceptionally accurate and consistent.
Les Baer’s literature states that this ammo in the Les Baer Ultimate AR rifles shoot “sub-1/2” MOA groups all day long” at ranges from 100-900 yards.
Ammunition is loaded by Black Hills and sold through Les Baer. The brass is manufactured for Black Hills by Hornady. Hornady also is manufacturing reloading dies for the .264 LBC.
Shooters can choose factory loads with either the 123 grain Sierra Match King or the 123 grain Hornady A-Max bullets.
New Cartridge: .300 Olympic Super Short Magnum
Posted by: | CommentsOlympic Arms introduced a new cartridge: the .300 Olympic Super Short Magnum. According to Olympic Arms staff, the .300 OSSM is a .308 bullet in a shortened WSSM case that was designed to shoot out of a standard AR-15 platform. The result? A cartridge capable of taking any game on the North American continent that can be shot out of a handy, lightweight rifle.
Introduced in conjunction with the Gamestalker rifle (see additional information here), the .300 OSSM is specifically designed for big game hunting in North America. The cartridge is capable of launching a 150 grain, .30 caliber bullet at more than 3040 fps from a 24″ barrel. In a 22″ barrel, the same bullet is traveling at just under 3000 fps.
