Shop by Caliber:
-
$199 As low as: $185
31 Ready to Ship
-
Regular Price: $479
On Sale: $419
41 Ready to Ship
-
Regular Price: $544
On Sale: $519
33 Ready to Ship
-
Regular Price: $445
On Sale: $434
16 Ready to Ship
-
41 Ready to Ship
-
$358
30 Ready to Ship
-
$112
41 Ready to Ship
-
Regular Price: $489
On Sale: $450
34 Ready to Ship
-
Regular Price: $265
On Sale: $243
40 Ready to Ship
-
Regular Price: $289
On Sale: $229
33 Ready to Ship
-
$275
35 Ready to Ship
-
Regular Price: $514
On Sale: $459
36 Ready to Ship
-
$459
35 Ready to Ship
-
$464
42 Ready to Ship
-
Regular Price: $499
On Sale: $464
40 Ready to Ship
-
$94
33 Ready to Ship
-
$118
31 Ready to Ship
-
$119
34 Ready to Ship
-
$489
38 Ready to Ship
-
$494
19 Ready to Ship
-
$124
35 Ready to Ship
-
$499
36 Ready to Ship
-
$304
33 Ready to Ship
-
$509
39 Ready to Ship
-
$77
91 Ready to Ship
-
$514
35 Ready to Ship
-
$309
34 Ready to Ship
-
$434
16 Ready to Ship
-
$259
9 Ready to Ship
-
$519
34 Ready to Ship
-
$519
10 Ready to Ship
-
$104
42 Ready to Ship
Rifle Ammunition Overview
Most rifle cartridges in use today originated as hunting or military calibers. As such, they typically provide strong medium or long range performance and relatively stout recoil (which may not be felt as such by the user, if a good pad is fitted to the rifle's stock).Ammunition for bolt-action and semi-automatic rifles typically uses necked down cases to fire relatively long, low caliber bullets. Cartridges intended for lever action rifles are distinguished by their use of round-nosed (or polymer-tipped) bullets. This allows the cartridges to sit end to end in the tubular magazines of lever actions without risk of accidental ignition.
Among hunting rounds, soft point bullets (whether polymer tipped or not) are the most common projectile. These are especially good for taking game animals because they expand (or ""mushroom"") to kill the target without fragmenting and destroying meat or trophies.
Hollow point projectiles fall into two distinct categories for rifle calibers. Some are designed to expand or fragment to stop predators or human assailants in self-defense situations. However, many match grade rounds fire bullets designated OTM (open tipped match) or BTHP/HPBT (hollow point boat tail) which are not intended to expand, but rather to produce optimal accuracy.