Ammunition Depot

The best practices for storing guns and ammunition in the winter are similar to those for storing them at any other time. The only difference is mitigating the conditions of winters in areas where the extreme cold or excessive dampness can damage and even ruin guns and the ammo being stored for them. This is usually fairly simple and often doesn’t require much more than you’re already doing. However, depending on the storage situation and environmental conditions, it can require making some chances and sometimes, a considerable investment. Either way, if you take care of your shooting gear, it will take care of you. Storing Guns Whether it’s your Glock and 9mm ammo , or an old 30.06, the most important features of their safe storage are: Keep them in a cool, dry place, preferably out of direct light, and with a temperature that remains basically stable. It’s not the low temperatures alone that can damage gunmetal, but the fluctuations of expanding and contractin...

It seems there is some innate feature of the human condition that drives a portion of the population into a virulent backlash against anything that becomes really popular. And it appears that’s been the fate of the .223 Remington. Not that the backlash is absolutely baffling, with no reason whatsoever, but the criticism tends to ignore or dismiss the features and functions that have made the .223 Remington what it is today. Basically, what’s needed is an objective appreciation of what it is and isn’t. One thing the .223 Remington isn’t doing is becoming less commercially popular. More people are buying and shooting . 223 ammo in the U.S. than most other centerfire cartridges. But functionally, the .223 Remington isn’t the cartridge that can just do everything. One of the legitimate reasons that anything extremely popular inspires a backlash is that enthusiastic users tend to overstate its assets. That’s particularly true when something like political condemnation...

Some of the best hunting happens to become available in the colder temperatures now upon us. So dust off those long johns, find some . 300 AAC Blackout for sale (a favorite for winter whitetail), and start planning a safe, warm, and successful winter hunt. Preparing for Winter Hunting First things first, however, ensure that your long gun is squared away. Of course, you should be doing this anyway, but double-check that it has been thoroughly cleaned. Condensation can find its way onto and into the mechanisms of a rifle and freeze. Additionally, metal contracts in the winter, making the action tighter and the fitting closer. In these conditions, grime in moving parts or the bore can exacerbate the winter extremes leading to a weapon malfunction. And you don’t want one of those happening behind an ice-rimed duck blind with 12 gauge ammo in the breach. It’s easy to remember in the summer because it’s hot, but water is obviously no less important in the winter. Tro...

Shortly after it was written, a 2014 executive summary by the FBI justifying their selection of the 9mm Luger as the agency-wide caliber of choice, over the .40 S&W and .45 ACP, was leaked to the public. Depending on who you ask, this either confirmed what everyone familiar with practical, tactical handgun ballistics already knew, or was an absurd perpetuation of a fiction that sounded good on paper but had no place in the real world. The FBI’s justification report dismissed many of the conclusions that were held virtually universally by entire generations, including that for handgun calibers “bigger is better.” They insisted that the long-held notion that bigger calibers, . 45 ACP ammo , in particular, is a “one shot stop” that no one walks away from—as they might a hit from a 9mm—was simply false and based wholly on “myth and folklore.” The substance of their findings was boiled down to one bullet point on which their conclusion was based: “Handgun stopping powe...