ammo test

The rounds of the HammerDown line are what would today be called short-range rounds.

The Grendel has been used for a variety of purposes, including long-range competitions, practical competitions, hunting, and for tactical use.

Sometimes, to get a gun to function well or to shoot precise groups, a factory load can be found that yields better results than a different factory load. Fortunately, these days there are many factory choices for most cartridges.

These new guns, in tandem, have the capacity to shape the future. It has been impressive enough to make me re-evaluate the 5.7, and I hope it does you too. I have a feeling the little cartridge that could is just getting started.

When we hear the term “military ball” ammunition most of us equate it with some type of full metal jacketed (FMJ), bullet. Such as, “45 hard ball” being a 230-grain full metal jacketed, round nose for the 1911, or 9mm “ball” being a 115 or 124-grain full metal jacketed, round nose bullet for the military’s 9mms or our own.

From time to time, Ruger produces the rifles in chamberings more suitable for hunting African plains game and big game elsewhere. The newest of these is the Ruger Hawkeye African chambered in 280 Ackley Improved. For my money, Ruger knocked it out of the park with this gun.

That 10-pointer was one of the first whitetail deer ever taken with the new 6.8 Western centerfire rifle cartridge from Winchester and Browning. He won’t be the last.

Bullets have evolved considerably since their first use from homogenous pure lead to homogenous copper and brass. Along the way, velocities have increased from a few hundred feet per second (fps) to a few thousand feet per second. For the most part, hunters have strived for complete penetration on whatever game animal they are pursuing.

Even though they’re pigs, they still deserve a humane death, besides, the less time you spend looking for a hit pig is more time spent looking for more pigs!