Best Ammo Names of All Time!

Hey, let's all start calling squibs "Boombergs!" It's funny because his legislation couldn't make it down the pipe!

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Well played sir.

411 JDJ is a fine round, just a bit hefty for a handgun in my opinion, great for making kindling though!

Zombie Max, as I've always been a fan of the Resident Evil videogame series, The Walking Dead and other zombie related themes.

.224 Harvey Kay-Chuk

Hornet, Nitro, 20mm Vulcan

Hey, let's all start calling squibs "Boombergs!" It's funny because his legislation couldn't make it down the pipe!

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There's a prostate joke in there somewhere, but I can't quite put my finger on it...

Federal Magnum just says authoritative and lethal to me.

CCI's Mini-Mag has a cool ring to it.

There's a prostate joke in there somewhere, but I can't quite put my finger on it...

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Oh dear. (facepalm)

.221 Fireball. Anyone who fired that in a handgun knows why they called it that.

H. Beam Piper wrote a science-fiction short story back in 1948, called "Police Operation." It's up on Gutenberg, now, and worth a read.

One plot complication was when some Pennsylvania hunters encountered a disguised paratime agent, and questioned his rifle. The Prop Department had given him a "period correct" bolt action hunting rifle, but it was a 1937 Sharps in .235 Ultraspeed-Express, some a timeline that diverged at the Second War Between the States...

I first read the story in an anthology in 1972 or so, and vowed if I ever made a 6mm wildcat, I'd call it the .235 Ultraspeed-Express.

Piper didn't mention any ballistic data, but when I first encountered the .244 Holland & Holland Magnum, I thought of Piper's story.

At one time Super-Vel was the cats meow.

I always liked the name Speer Grand Slams.

I always thought .220 swift had a nice ring to it.

leprechaun50 said:

I think that "Wide Mouth" was already used by a beer company.

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You might be thinking of "Mickey's Big Mouth".

Dan

bergmen said:

You might be thinking of "Mickey's Big Mouth".

Dan

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Nope, its a special kind of Coors Light can that supposedly provides a better drinking experience.

"AP Mark 8".


What can I say...I'm a Sailor, through-and-through!

For those who are curious...that's 262,269,785.4 ft-lbs of muzzle energy.



(Not exactly a "personal defense round", though... )

Anything nitro express

CCI Stingers.

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Ultra Mag!

I load up some 22-250 I call prarie dog dynomite. It blows crows to smitherenes as well. It's like looking for those poor souls at the fertilizer plant disaster when you go to investigate the hit. With crows it usually produces a big cloud of stuff.

Glaser " safety slugs" which back in the day -would guarantee a fatality if the perpetrator was hit in the head or torso
Were the 70's great or what?

Bruno2 said:

It blows crows to smitherenes as well. It's like looking for those poor souls at the fertilizer plant disaster when you go to investigate the hit.

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That comparison is in VERY poor taste.

I agree, but it's true.

Triton Quik Shok

I still have a box of those in my safe. They don't offer enough penetration for a self defense situation but I used one to take down a rabid racoon once and it lived up to it's name.