Today, all4shooters starts a series of articles of basics for all enthusiasts approaching Shooting sports, in any discipline. And today, we start with the fundamental term "Caliber". You've probably seen headlines referring to a "45 mm caliber" firearm. Anyone with even a basic knowledge of firearms immediately recognizes that such descriptions are technically incorrect. But how familiar are you …
With the new DLE range, Rottweil offers fourteen 12-gauge loads purpose-built for a wide spectrum of operational scenarios, including slug, buckshot, training and counter-UAV cartridges. All are designed for use in both pump-action and semi-automatic shotguns.
Designed for modern sporting rifles, the new Sako cartridge is made from premium component with tight manufacturing tolerances, ensuring smooth cycling, consistent velocity and accuracy, and mild recoil.
The French biathletes are undoubtedly the most successful athletes in this exciting winter sport discipline at the moment. No fewer than three team gold medals, plus three individual golds, four silvers, and three bronzes went to France at the Winter Olympics. One secret of their success: precise and reliable ammunition for the shooting events, and that comes from RWS.
I have been using Frankford Arsenal’s X10 ten-station automatic indexing ammunition reloading press for some time now, and I actually kept the very first “production run” of 20 9mm rounds of ammunition. Let’s now compare these rounds with the very last 20 rounds from the last batch, after 1000 reloads at the range with our CZ75 SP01 Shadow pistol. Will they be any different? Any drifting, …
The young RWS R Plus Long Range .22 Long Rifle rimfire cartridge with a 43-grain (2.8 g) aerodynamically optimized bullet and high velocity (355 m/s from 650 mm test barrel) is, according to its name, also suitable for shooting distances over 200 meter.
Sensational shake-up in the global business: U.S.-based Vista Outdoor has announced an agreement to sell its important historical ammunition brands to CSG Group, which was already involved a year ago in the purchase of Fiocchi ammunition
The International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) and the Fédération Internationale de Tir aux Armes Sportives de Chasse (FITASC) issued a joint communiqué regarding ECHA’s proposal to ban the use of lead in clay target sport shooting. The truth? There is no real alternative to lead in ammo and a ban “will end competitive sports shooting and will lead to many clay target range bankrupts”. We’ll …
The biggest Level III Match in Germany is of great importance. The starting places at the GECO IPSC Masters 2023 were allocated extremely quickly this time: It was one of the few matches that participants from the ranks of the Federation of German Marksmen (BDS), in addition to the mandatory matches, can use to qualify for the IPSC Handgun World Championship 2025 in South Africa. Our IPSC-affine …
Barely returned from the last competition, IPSC shooter Samantha Wendel and her fiancé Horst Holzinger are already back in their reloading room. But why? Why do they spend so much time in front of the reloading presses? Why don't they shoot factory ammunition? Should you reload too?
The United Nations wants every individual cartridge to be marked to “limit the scope of the illicit trade”, taking the Brazilian laser marking as an example of best practice. The Association of European Manufacturers of Sporting Ammunition explains here why it would be actually impossible for civilian ammo – and ineffective.
The new 6mm ARC was designed by Hornady for long range performance, but it was not allowed to become too large, as it still has to fit into an AR-15 magazine as a factory load. We developed handloads for the new cartridge and report on the results in the following article.
IWA 2023: For this year, GECO announces new loadings for its GECO Express and GECO Star hunting ammunition lines. But also the GECO Target HP training and match ammunition line is expanding. Here we give you an overview of everything you need to know about GECO's new ammo and show videos of the manufacturer's new products.
Enforce Tac 2023: The .300 AAC Blackout caliber (7.62 x 35 mm) is also becoming increasingly popular with German security agencies, such as the police in Schleswig-Holstein, and every well-known LE supplier, such as FN or Heckler & Koch, carries corresponding weapons in its catalog. The well-known US ammunition manufacturer Hornady is now expanding its offer with two more interesting loadings.
In this part 2, wet cleaning methods come into play. Read and see what ultrasonic, drums with steel pins in cleaning fluid or your mom's washing machine can do in our practical test.
Ground walnut shells and corn cob, ultrasonic baths and small stainless steel pins. You can read and discover here, in the first part, which brass cases cleaning methods or media, wet or dry, have which advantages and disadvantages.
We had already anticipated some rumors, now comes the official confirmation: the Charme III fund has actually acquired 60% - that is to say the majority shareholding - of the Italian ammunition Company, in partnership with the Fiocchi family, which reinvests up to 40%.+++ UPDATE November 24, 2022 +++ Praga-based Czechoslovak Group (CSG) announced the acquisition of 70 percent stake in Fiocchi …
Born in Eberbach am Neckar, Germany, revolver shooter Sascha Back (50) is known far beyond the borders of Germany for his shooting skills with the revolver. In the meantime, he also competes with the pistol and semi-automatic sporting rifle in international IPSC competitions. His motto: the essential thing is dynamic, and the essential thing is that ammunition and equipment fit. A portrait.
The 7mm Precision Rifle Cartridge is designed to fit the niche between previous Hornady's 6.5 PRC and 300 PRC cartridges. Also new, the Precision Lab Scale and Dual-Lid Lock Box. Hornady's subsonic SUB-X bullets are now offered in four new calibers too.
Due to the current escalation of events taking place in Ukraine, EU Member States are facing a sudden surge in demand for small arms ammunition. The European Chemicals Agency's Restriction Proposal concerning the near total ban of lead in ammunition, if adopted in the way currently proposed, will compromise the EU's security and defence sector. That’s why a moratorium is needed in order to avoid …
Some developments besides the .223 Remington have expanded the ballistic spectrum of AR-15 platforms – in rather small ways. Read on to discover why the 6 mm Advanced Rifle Cartridge (ARC) could represent a major advance and what its ballistics look like.
Breaking away from the conventional cylindrical design found on most EDC handheld flashlights, the Nextorch TA70 Ultra Slim features a flat, rectangular profile that naturally eliminates the need for an anti-roll design. Despite its remarkably compact dimensions, this high-performance tactical flashlight delivers an impressive maximum output of 3,500 lumens. Let's take a closer look at how it …
The market for high-capacity compact and micro-compact concealed carry pistols has become one of the most competitive segments in the handgun industry. With the new Prime Radian, Turkish manufacturer Canik introduces an enhanced version of its Mete MC9 PRIME, factory-equipped with premium components developed in partnership with Radian Weapons, the U.S.-based specialist renowned for its …
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We had the chance to handle the new version of the well-known Walther PDP semiautomatic 9mm pistol, which will be available as the "Success & Comfort" (S&C) model, specifically engineered to appeal to sport shooting competitors and enthusiasts. The handgun features many interesting innovations.
We tested the highly anticipated sixth generation of the renown Austrian polymer frame pistol. Featuring substantial improvements, specifically in ergonomics, the new Gen 6 succeeds in the difficult task of further refining an already mature and widely appreciated design, resulting in what could arguably be called "the best Glock pistol ever."
With the Flux system, SIG Sauer transforms a P320 pistol into an extremely compact "personal defense weapon", or PDW. In legal terms, a "fluxed" P320 still remains a pistol, as the serial number is printed on the inner Fire Control Unit and not on the easily replaceable frame or chassis. We have summarized the most important differences between the P320 Flux Legion and Tacops models and tested the …
With its new MPS and MPS-C red dots, Steiner makes its most advanced technologies available to civilian shooters, packed into two lightweight and compact devices that are intuitive to use and boast the extraordinary ruggedness typical of products developed for military use.
Beretta NARP: all4shooters.com tested different configurations of the modular assault rifle concept designed by Beretta to be the most flexible service rifle platform ever offered by the Italian manufacturer. As the name implies, the New Assault Rifle Platform is a base that can be custom tailored and built to perfectly fulfill the specific roles, requirements and duties that international …
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