** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** Nitro Hunter. The grandiose name ...

If there is one cartridge that is defined by a split personality it is the unassuming .22 Hornet. Variously characterized as inaccurate, ideal for use around built up areas, difficult to load, ...

Throughout the 1800s, firearm development was cartridge development. Engineers, inventors, gunsmiths, and crackpots tried various ways to speed reloads by integrating fulminate primer, powder, and ...

“Did you know,” a fellow asked me the other day, “that it’s impossible to buy .22 ammo anywhere in Mankato?” He went on to explain how he and a friend had plans to hit the last weekend of the ...

Rimfire and centerfire show up in gun shop and range talk, but their names hide a simple idea: where the firing pin strikes the cartridge. In a rimfire round the primer is inside the rim, so the gun ...

The .22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire, commonly known as the “Twenty-Two Win Mag,” was hatched back in 1959. At the time, “Gunsmoke,” “Bonanza,” “The Rifleman,” and dozens of Western films were ...