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Guns and Ammo Holiday Gift Guide
Ammunition Depot Holiday Gift Guide
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Holiday Gift Giving for the Gun Enthusiast in Your Life

If you have a firearms enthusiast in your life, there is no better way of showing how much you care about them than by purchasing them a gift for their guns! Ammunition Depot has curated a list of special gifts that are sure to make that shooter in your life smile this holiday season.

Hunting with an AR15
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Hunting With An AR-15

While the AR-15 isn’t the most popular rifle for hunting, its prevalence in hunting camps and deer stands increases every year. Here are a few things to consider before heading to your hunting camp with one over your shoulder.

308 Grain Weights and Ballistics
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.308 Winchester: How To Pick The Right Bullet Weight

Few cartridges can claim the number of commercial ammunition offerings like the .308 Winchester. Bullet weights can vary from 110 grains all the way up to 185 grains, but the most relevant loads sit between 147 grains and 175 grains. Even in that smaller weight range, there are still numerous different bullet types. Here’s how to pick the right one for you.

Chassis vs Stock - Hunting Rifle Upgrades
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Chassis vs Stock: Hunting Rifle Upgrades

Chassis stocks are no longer an oddity on hunting rifles. They use advanced materials and have lots of shooter-friend features and are easy to install. Any of these three picks can be a smart upgrade to your favorite deer gun. 

444 Marlin vs 45-70 Government calibers
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444 Marlin vs 4570 Government Caliber Comparison

How do the .45/70 Gov't and .444 Marlin stack up? Both are fantastic cartridges that fill a similar niche, so why and how did the .45/70, which was nearly extinct when the .444 Marlin was introduced, rise from the ashes and push the newer cartridge to the sidelines?

6.5 Creedmoor vs 308 Winchester Caliber Comparison
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6.5 Creedmoor vs 308 Winchester Caliber Comparison

Cartridge comparisons frequently contain a lot of “that depends” and don’t usually come to a solid conclusion. Let me save you some time. The 6.5 Creedmoor is the better choice about 90-percent of the time when compared to the .308 Winchester.

Rifle Target Grouping
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How to Improve your Accuracy with Target Grouping

We shoot groups with our rifles to determine the level of precision we can expect from them. We do this to get an idea of how close we can expect our first shot to land to the point we’re aiming at. But the thousand-dollar question has always been, how many shots should the groups we shoot contain, and how many groups should we shoot?

FFP vs SPF
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Rifle Scopes - First Focal Plane vs Second Focal Plane

American shooters – particularly hunters – used to not like first focal plane reticles because when they zoomed in the reticle grew with the target. We like to see a thin reticle superimposed over our target because we feel it helps us aim with better precision. But, with the increased popularity of long-range shooting things began to change and more American sportsmen are turning to first focal plane scopes, though second focal plane scopes are still dominant.

Hunting Game with 45-70 Govt Ammo
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Your Complete Guide to 45-70 Govt Ammo

Modern .45/70 loads make this cartridge a triple threat. If you can hunt and know how to close the distance to inside 200 yards, there’s a .45/70 load out there that will allow you to successfully hunt anything walking Earth. The best part is that unlike other cartridges, the .45/70 lets you match the recoil and power needed to critters as small as feral hogs or as large as African buffalo.