Purchasing Ammunition from trusted manufactures is important because poorly manufactured cartridges can fail to fire, or worse create too much pressure in the barrel causing it to rupture potentially causing serious bodily harm. You can buy the following types of ammunition in a range of calibers in large quantities online from Outdoor Sports Depot.

• Rimfire Cartridges
• Centerfire Handgun Ammunition
• Centerfire Rifle Cartridges
• Shotgun Ammunition
• Dummy Cartridges / Blanks

Ammunition

There are several main types of ammunition available to a hunter or shooter. At Outdoor Sports Depot, we supply ammunition to fill any shooters needs. Because we buy and sell ammunition in bulk, we are able to pass savings on to our customers. Therefore, we sell ammunition at discount prices. You can buy a variety of ammunition online from our website including:

• Rimfire Cartridges
• Centerfire Handgun Cartridges
• Centerfire Rifle Cartridges
• Shotgun Ammunition
• Dummy Cartridges / Blanks

As ammunition can have many manufacturing and quality variables, it is important to buy ammo from trusted ammunition manufactures. Improperly manufactured ammunition may fail to fire or generate excessive internal pressure, which may damage or even rupture the firearm, causing serious personal injury. Our ammunition comes from trusted manufactures so you know when you buy ammo from Hunting Fishing Camping Gear, you will receive quality cartridges. The following are several of the leading manufactures whose ammunition we supply at low prices:

• Federal Cartridge Corporation
• Hornady Manufacturing Company
• Winchester Ammo
• CCI

Dummy Cartridges / Blanks

Blanks or dummy cartridges are a special type of ammunition, which is used to simulate firing without the actual bullet. Dummy cartridges contain gun powder and no bullet so that when they are fired, they create a flash and make an explosive sound. Blanks are often used in a number of situations including:

• Army and police training courses
• Function testing firearms
• Signaling at the start of a race
• Salutes, such as at military ceremonies
• Special effects for movies or plays
• Reenactments, such as civil war reenactments

Rimfire Ammunition

Rimfire ammunition achieves ignition when the firing pin strikes the rim of the base of the cartridge. Essentially, a with a rimfire cartridge the rim is a widened percussion cap which contains the primer. A benefit to buying rimfire cartridges is that it is easy and cheap to manufacture and therefore available in bulk at low prices.
There are several downsides to using rimfire cartridges. One of these is that rimfire ammunition cannot withstand high pressures and is therefore typically limited to smaller cartridge sizes. Another downside to rimfire ammunition is that unlike with centerfire ammunition, the cartridges cannot be reused. After firing a rimfire cartridge, the head is damaged from the impact of the firing pin and the cartridge cannot be reloaded.

Centerfire Ammunition

Centerfire ammunition is designed with the primer located in the center of the base of the cartridge. When this type of cartridge is fired, the firing pin must, therefore, strike the exact center of the base. Centerfire ammo is the most commonly used type of ammunition for modern pistols, rifles, and shotguns because the primer is a separate and replaceable component. This feature leads to the major advantage to using centerfire ammunition versus rimfire ammunition, which is that centerfire cartridges can be reused by replacing the primer, gunpowder, and projectile. This reusability makes centerfire cartridges convenient for shooters with rifles that require obsolete or hard to find cartridges.
Another benefit of centerfire ammunition is that is can hold higher pressures than rimfire cartridges of the same size. This makes cartridges more powerful and more efficient. Therefore, centerfire ammunition is often used when hunting larger game, such as deer and bison.

Shotgun Ammunition

Shotgun shells are a type ammunition that is specifically designed for use with shotguns. The typical shotgun cartridge is a shell made of plastic or paper filled with small lead or lead substitute pellets. Depending on the size of the pellets that are inside of the shell, shotgun ammunition is either categorized as being birdshot or buckshot. Birdshots consist of a number of small pellets designed to have a wide spread. Buckshots are more powerful for hunting larger game and home self defense. These cartridges are filled with larger lead pellets designed to cause more damage and penetrate the target with more force.