Officially announced at the 2022 NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits and set to be made available online and in stores soon is the new Federal Premium HEVI-Bismuth 20-gauge and 12-gauge shotgun loads. HEVI shot loads have started to become extremely popular with dedicated [Read More…]
I’ll be 100% honest. I knew nothing about the .327 Federal Magnum caliber until I saw the TFBTV video on the Smith & Wesson Model 327. The video intrigued me, sending me into a downward spiral of research. What I ultimately found is that there are several [Read More…]
The 6.5 PRC cartridge has found a home in the world of PRS competitions because of its flat-shooting properties. Federal Premium has decided to take it one step closer to the hunting realm. Mixing the superior flight performance of 6.5 PRC with the animal wounding [Read More…]
Federal’s Gold Medal ammunition was nearly impossible to find during the Great Ammo Grab of 2020. I was eventually able to find it for three times the price. The reason is that people have come to trust the ammunition as a solid and consistent performer. Federal [Read More…]
Using steel shot on birds and small game has so many benefits. Steel is denser than lead, meaning the same size pattern can house more pellets. Another benefit to steel is that it’s cleaner. Using steel shot keeps levels of lead pollution lower, keeping our [Read More…]
The .357 Magnum caliber has earned a reputation as a man stopper. In the N64 Goldeneye, it was even capable of shooting through walls. Take that, General Ourumov! This reputation is well-deserved. The caliber has been on the hips of police and civilians for decades. [Read More…]
Driven by the love of PRS competition, long-range calibers have continued to advance. Federal Premium has been providing shooters with the ammunition they need, combining quality parts with well-engineered projectiles. One of the most recent additions to the long-range [Read More…]
Shooting clays out of the sky is very fun, but also valuable training for all kinds of shooters. While some shooters prefer a casual environment, competition is where some of the best shooters live. For them, Federal has released the new Top Gun Lead and Top Gun Steel [Read More…]
Federal introduced the Punch line of Personal Defense ammunition to give shooters viable defensive options to several calibers, including the .22 Long Rifle. These calibers also included the extremely popular cartridges like the 9mm Luger and the more specialist 10mm [Read More…]
Using a shotgun for home defense, like anything else, has pros and cons. One of the biggest cons is the limited capacity that comes with a tube-fed shotgun. One way to increase your capacity is to make the shells themselves shorter, and that’s exactly what Federal [Read More…]
With the ammunition shortages we’ve all been facing since the Great Toilet Paper Hoarding of 2020, finding ammo has become quite a task. The first store you go to might have some 9mm, but you have to travel to two more before you find .45 ACP (in case you need to [Read More…]
Federal has landed a new contract with the Department of Justice (DOJ) – Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The contract will run for 5 years and is described as a multiple-award, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity for Federal’s 5.56mm NATO Service [Read More…]
Federal Premium has been introducing plenty of hunting ammunition, but what about defensive loads? Coming from opposite ends of the power spectrum, the Federal Punch line adds two calibers to its catalog of personal defense ammunition. Introducing Federal Punch .22LR [Read More…]
Federal Premium is no stranger to hunting ammunition. Countless four-legged creatures have become meals thanks to ever-improving ammunition technology. The Federal Swift A-Frame line is one of those improvements. Now, both .327 Federal and 10mm Auto have been added to [Read More…]
Expanding upon their popular Syntech Range line of ammunition, Federal Premium has added three calibers for your shooting pleasure. The Syntech Range line now includes .38 SPL, 10mm Auto, and .380 ACP. If you’ve been hiding in the woods and are unfamiliar with [Read More…]
The .224 Valkyrie cartridge has been around for a few years now to give distance shooters a smaller cartridge offering in the MSR (modern sporting rifle) platform to compete with all of the larger cartridge AR-10 shooters. To feed that niche of long-range shooting, [Read More…]
Federal Premium keeps opening the flood gates on new products for 2021 and they continue that trend with additional offerings through their Hydra-Shok Deep line of ammunition with a 380 Auto Hydra-Shok Deep 99 Grain and 38 Special +P Hydra-Shok Deep 130 Grain. This will [Read More…]
When it comes to long-range target shooting, and long-distance hunting as well, two of the most popular cartridges on the block are from the Creedmoor family in 6.5 Creedmoor and 6mm Creedmoor. Keeping in step with those trends, Federal Premium has expanded their Gold [Read More…]
There are a lot of people who have joined the miniature 6.5 PRC (Precision Rifle Cartridge) revolution when it comes to long-distance big-game hunting as well as long-range target shooting. To cater to those precision rifle cartridge loyalists, Federal Premium has [Read More…]
At SHOT Show 2020, besides the HammerDown lever-action rifle ammunition line, Federal Premium also introduced a new ignition system for muzzleloading rifles called FireStick. This system is designed to work with Traditions NitroFire series break action .50 caliber [Read More…]
From the very beginning of the year, we have been covering the news of Vista Outdoor and particularly Federal Premium Ammunition. This year the company has released probably the largest amount of new products in the ammunition industry. And I am talking about not only [Read More…]
Among the dozens of ammunition related new products released by Vista Outdoor brands for 2020, there is a new Federal Premium hunting rifle bullet and ammunition line called Terminal Ascent. Being hunting bullets, these projectiles are designed to expand dumping all [Read More…]
One of the mad scientists at Federal Premium has probably thought once “what if to load split-shot sinkers into a shotgun shell?” and that’s probably how the Force X2 shotgun ammo was born. Joking aside, this is a really interesting buckshot design. [Read More…]
Lead used in bullets is different depending on the type of the projectile and the job you are expecting it to do. If you want it to deform and mushroom, you need softer alloy or pure lead and if you want the lead bullet to stay intact and penetrate as much as possible, [Read More…]
Welcome back to another edition of TFB’s Round Table sponsored by Ammunition To Go! For those who are first joining us, this is a multi-part series where TFB will discuss the characteristics of great ammunition for specific applications. This could vary from big [Read More…]
Vista Outdoors has published a press release announcing that SAAMI (Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute) has approved and issued the 12 Gauge 1-3/4″ cartridge and chamber drawing standards for smoothbore barrels. Currently, you can find on [Read More…]
For anyone who happens to own a rifle chambered in 450 Bushmaster, Federal Premium has made a Press Release stating exactly what grain weight is likely to perform best for that cartridge. This was a message they recently sent out to dealers and distributors of Federal [Read More…]
The National Rifle Association hosted the NRA Annual Meetings less than a month ago in Indianapolis, Indiana to some door-busting crowds. With the fodder of new guns and cool, freshly-debuted products also comes the annual announcement of the NRA’s Shooting [Read More…]
The .350 Legend cartridge was only introduced 4 months ago at SHOT Show 2019 by Winchester, but it is already gaining a lot of momentum as a fan favorite for 2019. In many states, there are admittedly odd restrictions to the cartridges you can use for hunting. Numerous [Read More…]
CCI has rolled out a new flavor of ammo specifically meant to duplicate duty loads, but at a more affordable price-point for practice with their Heavy Blazer Brass 9mm in a 147 Grain FMJ (Full-Metal Jacket). A lot of hollow point offerings for 9mm come in heavier grain [Read More…]