Ammunition Reviews

Shell Shock Technologies has launched a consumer-based line of ammunition that’s now available through the company’s factory-direct outlet.

"I’ve been asking my local retailers for 20-ga. 00 buck shotshells. Their response is “good luck finding that.” Were these shells ever made available by any company?"

Although it’s in its infancy, this new technology signals a sweeping change coming for firearm enthusiasts. Less propellant, precise burn rates, improved reliability and enhanced performance are on the horizon—even if it’s a distant one.

In his Handbook For Shooters And Reloaders (Volume 1), P.O. Ackley wrote of the .257 Ackley Improved that, “It is a relatively efficient cartridge, flexible and comes close to the mythical ‘all around cartridge.’”

Remington Ammunition's 360 Buckhammer is a straight-wall hunting cartridge that's designed to give deer hunters an ideal round for their Midwestern hunt.

Freedom Munitions has announced it will be consolidating its projectile component production from X-Treme Bullets out of Nevada into its Lewiston, Idaho, facilities.

Federal Ammunition has combined the technology of its FliteControl Flex wad with a special blend of its zinc-plated steel shot to produce tight patterns that have greater reach and improved lethality.

D&M Holding Company, an ammunition and energetics engineering company, is investing $70 million to build a single-base, smokeless propellant factory and expand its current White River Energetics (WRE) ammunition primer and energetics facility in Des Arc, Ark.

In a lever-action rifle, the .357 Mag. offers tremendous utility to the target shooter, varminter or even the short-range whitetail deer hunter.