The State of Ammo Prices: Summer 2026
Ammo prices fell about 3.5% in Q2 2026, but the savings landed unevenly. Our Ammo Price Index breaks down cost per round across 27 calibers, built from 7,615 listings and 5.36 million price checks.
Guides
A series of posts that will guide you through the maze of guns and firearms. We give you advice, help and answer those simple questions you don’t always want to ask.
Can You Hunt with a Tactical Shotgun? Yes, and Here’s How
Yes, you can hunt with a tactical shotgun. Here is how to set up your home defense gun for deer, turkey, waterfowl, and upland hunting with barrel swaps, chokes, and magazine plugs.
How to Pattern a Shotgun: Step-by-Step Guide
Step-by-step guide to patterning your shotgun. How to set up, shoot, count pellets, calculate percentages, and read your pattern for hunting and home defense.
Shotgun Choke Explained: Every Pattern from Cylinder to Full
Shotgun chokes explained with a full choke chart: constriction, pattern percent, notch markings and a thread chart for Mossberg, Remington and Beretta.
State Gun Law Roundup (June 2026): What is Moving in the States
State gun law roundup for June 2026: Pennsylvania safe-storage mandate HB2244 clears committee, a Virginia court halts private-sale background checks, and gun-industry liability laws keep spreading.
Virginia Halts Private-Sale Background Checks Again (2026)
A Lynchburg court again blocked Virginia universal background check law. Private gun sales now require no check; licensed dealer NICS checks are unaffected. What it means and what is next.
How to Sight In a Rifle Scope: Step-by-Step (2026)
To sight in a rifle scope, mount and level the scope, bore sight it to get on paper, confirm at 25 yards, then fine-tune to a tight group at your chosen zero distance, usually 100 yards. Sighting in simply means aligning where the scope looks with where the bullet actually hits, by adjusting the elevation … Read more
How to Reload .300 Blackout (2026): Components, Case Prep & Load Data
Before you reload a single round of .300 Blackout, understand this: a .300 BLK cartridge can chamber in a 5.56 or .223 rifle and destroy it. They share the AR-15 magazine and bolt, so a stray .300 round in a 5.56 gun is a catastrophe waiting to happen. With that understood, .300 Blackout is a … Read more
How to Reload .45 ACP (2026): Components, Brass Prep & Load Data
.45 ACP is one of the most forgiving cartridges to reload, right alongside 9mm, but it has one trap that catches everyone: it uses large pistol primers, not the small pistol primers 9mm takes. It runs at low pressure on a fat straight-wall case, takes a .451 bullet usually around 230 grains, sizes on a … Read more