ammo website

MoD_Eagle

i'm looking for a website on ammo that has some good info on different types of cases and calibers and a discription of each. i'm somewhat new to guns (just turned 21) and would like to know more.

nononsense

MoD_Eagle,

Quickly, I would suggest that even though you'd like a website, I suggest that you order or go to a bookstore and buy a copy of "Cartridges of the World" in order to have one on the desk right next to you. It lists the various groups of cartridges by chapters and gives a short history and descripton of each. There's a chart of dimensions at the end of each chapter.

I'll post some of the URL's later.

Best.

ADDED:

This is a pretty good set of cartridge drawings:

http://stevespages.com/page8d.htm

This website can be used to research headstamps and cartridge dimensions:

http://members.shaw.ca/cstein0/heads.htm

Remember that this is good time to start buying and READING reloading manuals. There is a wealth of information with regard to cartridges and reloading in the first portion of every manual. These don't have to be the very newest but can be used and inexpensive. The newest manuals will have the most up-to-date information and data on the newest cartridges and powders.

Best.

Iconoclast

Hi Eagle - welcome aboard!

I'm not clear on what you meant in respect to "different types of cases," but here's a link to a glossary of ammunition terms which includes illustrations of the various case types (among *many* other things, but you can parse it in a reasonable amount of time):

http://www.cartridgecollectors.org/glossary.htm

This next site requires registration and encourages payment, but it is free at an elementary level. Here you will find a listing of a large number of cartridges, their dimensions and similar material:

http://ammoguide.com/

I'm not aware of any site which presents as broad a range of information as your questions suggest you seek. There are thousands of different cartridges. Many, granted, very obscure, but I have about twelve feet of shelf space dedicated to references in this field and by no means is this library either complete or definitive; there is nothing comparable on the Internet.

A good basic treatment is Cartridges of the World, one of the Gun Digest family. You have to buy the book (roughly $30), but this is probably the closest to what you want. It has many technical errors (dates of introduction, etc.) but for non-specialists it usually serves very well.

Good luck!

nards444

cheaperthandirt.com has cheap ammo

Beer gut

you can try the name brands like remington federal winchester weatherby hornady also type guns and ammo that wed sight has lots of listings of different calibers. what are you looking for pistol rifle shotgun anti-aircraft or surface to air?

Bert H.

I like this website for quick reference information - http://www.reloadbench.com/cartspec.html

jptatum

I would second nononsense's suggestion. Cartridges of the World is easily the best book on this subject I have ever run across.

MoD_Eagle

thanks everyone for the help

11b6r

Link to references. http://www.digitalpresence.com/histarch/cartridg.html Have fun- there is more weird stuff out there than you could believe- and there are cartridges that are scarcer than the guns that shot them.