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Winchester Repeating Arms has released the list of their SHOT Show Special firearms. These are limited edition versions of their products that can’t be found in the company’s regular catalog. The dealers can order Winchester SHOT Show Special guns during the [Read More…]
Yes, that Vortex, the optics company. Folks at Vortex Nation Podcast started a project of designing a new long-range hunting cartridge. Their goal was to create a 6.5mm (.264″) caliber cartridge for antelope/deer-sized game that performance- and length-wise would [Read More…]
Winchester has been producing 22LR rimfire ammunition for quite a long time. I would consider Winchester to be one of the leaders in rimfire ammunition production along with giants such as CCI and Remington. They have just released their new Wildcat Super Speed 22LR [Read More…]
In this episode of TFBTV, Hop tests the new Winchester Wildcat to see if it can dethrone the Marlin 795 as the ultimate budget .22 LR plinker. The new Wildcat is lighter than a Marlin 795, cheaper than a Ruger 10/22, and with a few tasty bonus features of its own like one button takedown, […] [Read More…]
What a nonsense! What in the world is a non-existent standardized cartridge? OK, let me explain. At the beginning of 2018, a new Nosler cartridge was added to the list of SAAMI standard cartridges – the .24 Nosler. However, as of the moment of writing this article [Read More…]
About two months ago we reported about Starline offering straight-walled unfinished .223 Remington brass made primarily for wildcatters. Apparently, Starline also offers such unfinished cases of 6.5mm Grendel and 6.8mm SPC cartridges. Starline calls these cases Grendel [Read More…]
Browsing through the CIP cartridge standards while doing a research, I noticed several cartridges named PICRA. The name was unknown to me and apparently, it is unknown to many others too. So I thought why don’t I do a little research to find out who has designed [Read More…]
Many companies offer 80% firearm receivers, frames and other parts that are supposed to be serialized and legally represent the firearm. These non-complete parts don’t qualify as firearms and are useful for a number of reasons – to build your own gun, to [Read More…]
So you want an AR-15 for hog hunting that can launch .40 cal (10mm) pills? This wildcat caliber might be what you are looking for. It is called .400AR and was developed for hog hunting. The designers had initial requirements to have the largest caliber that will allow [Read More…]
Many of you may have read the title and asked: “What in the world is a .277 Wolverine?”. So first, let’s see what cartridge it is. In a nutshell, it is a wildcat cartridge based on .223 Rem or 5.56 NATO case with a .277 caliber (6.8mm) projectile. It [Read More…]
Reloaders, especially those manufacturing various wildcat loadings, rejoice! Creedmoor sports (yes, the name is rather familar to those same reloaders) has announced the release of their “Annealing Made Perfect” Induction Annealing Unit for reloaders to [Read More…]
I have no doubt that the majority of our readers know about SAAMI (Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute), which sets the ammunition standards, cartridge and chamber drawings etc. These standards are guidelines for manufacturers, but many [Read More…]
While 6.5 Creedmoor is all the rage in the OEM world, quite a few in the reloading world have been looking at .260 Remington and its slightly hotter, smaller cousin, the 6mm Creedmoor for their precision long-range builds. Like the 6.5, the 6mm Creedmoor eeks out just a [Read More…]
Now here is a wildcat that I can get behind. The .30 ARX is an immediately semi-auto AR-15 compatible cartridge. It’s nothing special from a manufacturing standpoint; as the cartridge creator claims, the .30 ARX is simply a necked-up 6.5 Grendel to accept common [Read More…]
Inspired by the recent introduction of the 45 Raptor, an Australian shooter using the screen name of Quan-Time worked up another bigbore round based on the 308 Winchester case. The new round is called the 458 dropbear. Quan-Time details the cartridge and the process [Read More…]
Small Arms Defense Journal spent some significant ink profiling the development of a new AR-15 platform compatible long-range round. The 6.5x40mm (aka .264 Warrior Magnum) is not to be confused with the (relatively) common 6.5 Grendel. Developed by Mitch Shoffner, the [Read More…]
Piet, a South African, emailed me information about a wildcat he shoots. The .416 Strauss aka. the 416-03 Strauss in named after the inventor, a friend of Piet. .303 British (left), .416 Strauss (middle, loaded with a 350 gr Speer bullet in a Norma case) The parent [Read More…]
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