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 ...

If matters turned out that I had only one choice for a rifle/cartridge combination for an extended survival circumstance, it would entail the .22 rimfire. This is a very effective cartridge for a wide ...

There is little doubt that the most popular rifle and handgun cartridge in this country is the .22 rimfire round. Annual ammunition sales also show that it is the most fired round in America and is ...

In America, speed is most often thought of in terms of miles per hour (mph). But when answering the question of how fast does a bullet travel, it’s best to think of speed in feet per second (fps).

Fortune favors the bold, they say, and Winchester's latest cartridge introduction is about as bold as it gets in the rifle-ammo world. The brand-new 21 Sharp rimfire cartridge is meant to be an ...