Archive for the 'Ammo' Category

.30 BR

The new 30 Remington AR’s specs. real close to a .30 BR - except for a .500″ base dia. instead of the BR’s (and the 30-06’s, and the .308’s, and a pile of other cartridge’s) .473″ dia.
Any bets on how long until we see one necked down to 6.5 or 6mm by some tactical competitors?
UPDATE [...]

Overbore

There’s a post over at Accurate Shooter about overbore cartridges with an accompanying chart purporting to list cartridges in order of their “overboreness”. I commented:
Volume/area is a poor proxy for “overboreness”. I haven’t thought it through yet but since a .50 bmg is basically a scaled up ‘06 it should equal a 30?06 in [...]

The FBI Gets Some

It’s National Ammo Day and the FBI, not wanting to be left out, gives Winchester Ammunition the largest ammunition contract ever in the history of federal law enforcement - worth up to $54 million.

Bloomin’

Bouquet is an odd little thing.
I gather it’s two UCLA art students’ project. It’s vaguely anti-gun but it doesn’t seem like it ever got going as a project or as an antigun statement. If you navigate amongst it’s four main pages you’ll find what appears to be a positive review of Eldorado’s Starfire [...]




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