5.56 and 7.62 Case Capacities

Cases are difficult to find these days, and when you do find them they tend to be expensive. For the most part people who are looking for cases can only find them from military surplus sources. However, there is a consequence of using military cases: they tend to be thicker and heavier than commercial cases. This comes from the extra weight in the head and web. The resulting consequences are that they possess a reduction in volume, and powder charge. 
There are websites that sell used military surplus cases, such as Everglades Ammo (evergladesammo.com). Our Load Data Editors have ordered these cases, and tested them out to find exactly what the reductions in volume and powder charge are, and write an article about their findings. It cost $85 for 500 cases, delivered, and only three of them were unusable. We also found that the 7.62 cases work well as a substitute for the .308 Winchester cases, and at a very reasonable price.
Our experiment also included the .223 Remington, and discusses the weight and water capacity in grains, and velocity of these cases. To read the entire article visit us today and sign up to join our website where you can also order metallic cartridges and get shotshell data from us, as well as access to the largest online reloading manual in the world. Visit us today!

The .45-70 Government 1886 Winchester

Load Data is an online gun magazine featuring informative articles about guns, and an online shopping platform offering guns, cartridges, and much more. Last month the magazine featured an article that went into detail about the .45-70 Government round. As always, the full article is available for subscribers, but here we will go over some of the highlights of that article.

The .45-70 government round started out as a military round, and was primarily used in the US Model 1873 Springfield rifle, aka "The Trapdoor". In the years that followed the round gained popularity among civilians for use in various single-shot rifles.

Originally, the .45-70 Government was produced as a black powder round. Later, when smokeless powders were introduced into the market manufacturers began offering the smokeless powder type as well. Today the smokeless version of this round is the most prevalent version available.

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.25-06 Remington Review

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These articles are very popular with gun enthusiasts, and often are about cartridge performance, tips and tricks for hunting, gun reviews, and more. The latest article, released on May 15 of this years, was about the .25-06 Remington.

In this article, Load Data goes into the history of the rifle, the fact that it was first developed in the 1920s, and was originally based on the .30-06 Springfield. Back then the gun powder used was so fast-burning that the cartridge didn't reach its full potential. In fact, most guns, as this article points out, had this problem before the Hodgdon H-4831 became available to hand loaders after World War II.

To read the entire article, and to find out what the velocities of this cartridge are, as well as to read other great articles about guns, rifles, and bench topics visit us today, and join our magazine.