All modern metallic cartridges consist of a brass case that contains gunpowder capped off with a bullet. Rimfire and centerfire cartridges are both metallic cartridges; the difference is in how they ...

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 ...

Throughout the 1800s, firearm development was cartridge development. Engineers, inventors, gunsmiths, and crackpots tried various ways to speed reloads by integrating fulminate primer, powder, and ...

Alright coppers, be honest, when was the last time you got excited about any rimfire pistol? Once we’ve graduated to full-bore, centerfire pistols and self-loading black rifles, .22 rimfire pistols ...