New from Winchester: Long Beard XR Magnum Turkey Shotshells
"Forty yards has long been the standard by which all turkey loads were measured," Winchester's press release proclaims (after the jump). "No more. Winchester® Ammunition pushed the limit without trepidation introducing the most innovative...
New From Liberty Ammunition: .45 Long Colt Hollow Points
On light days, when RF totes his 460XVR around Austin with no reasonable expectation of ursine assault, there's probably no need to bust out the heavy artillery. Why schlep around big, expensive .460 S&W magnum...
ShootingTheBull410: Mech Tech Carbine 10mm Ballistics Test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jIuNgm1C3c&feature=youtu.be
I keep exploring the Mech Tech Carbine Conversion Unit that Jeremy S. previously reviewed here. It's a cleverly-designed "upper" that you snap your GLOCK pistol "lower" into, converting your wundergun into a 16"-barrel carbine...
GOP Fires Back With Bill in House in Support of M855 Ammo
On Monday, Representative Patrick McHenry (R-North Carolina), introduced H.R. 1365, the Ammunition and Firearms Protection Act, in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill is a reaction to the recent kerfuffle over the BATFE's...
Memo to Police Facing ‘Green Tip’ Ammo: Use Polyethylene Armor with Lightweight Silicon Carbide...
The brouhaha over "green tip" M855 ammo would be funny if it wasn't. Despite the ATF's strategic withdrawal on their plans to ban the popular rifle ammo - in the face of enormous pro-ballistic blowback,...
New from Lehigh Defense: Close Quarters (CQ) Ammo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1mQtvwEFMM
I'm not sure if G2's RIP ammo is still ripping off the public, but the hoopla has certainly died down. In the meantime, the good folks at Lehigh Defense (one of our 2013 Readers Choice Award...
Gear Review: Mr. Bulletfeeder
While I have been shooting for more decades than I would like to recall, I am a relative newcomer to reloading. I load both .45ACP and .38 Specials. My primary carry gun is .45,...
The Variable Sounds of Silence: Subsonic vs. Supersonic Ammo
http://youtu.be/EirsMpc0Qgc
For those of you lucky enough to be able to browse TTAG at work and watch a YouTube video like the one above, I hope the audible difference between supersonic and subsonic ammo when shooting...
Incendiary Image of the Day: The Washington Post Thinks This is M855 Ammo
Posted above the Washington Post story, The NRA, even more ridiculous than usual. It seems incredible that a mainstream media outlet that's as virulently anti-gun as the WaPo wouldn't have one person on their news staff who knows...
White House on M855 Ban: It Wazzunt Me. ATF: We’re Reviewing, The Situation
https://youtu.be/e0UWyW8GejY
In the video above, the White House spokesmodel Josh Earnest laid the "blame" for the ATF's climb-down on the M855 "Green Tip" ammo ban on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (And...
Congressional Dems Make New Push For M855 Ban
If you've followed the fight to preserve Americans' Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms for any time at all, you know the battle is never truly "won." Pro-freedom advocates engage in a...
Bloomberg and Giffords on M855 Ammo Ban: It Wazzunt Me
"Gun control groups are distancing themselves from a failed attempt by the Obama administration to ban certain types of armor-piercing ammunition commonly used in AR-15 hunting rifles," thehill.com reports, almost getting it right. If you...