How Ammunition Gets Named and What it Means

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posted on December 15, 2015
All those numbers, those letters, those hyphens and dashes...it can be confusing to figure out what the naming conventions for ammunition mean to you. Our friends at American Hunter spent some time with Winchester Ammunition's Mike Stock to try to make sense of it all.

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