Ammunition

Our test equipment meets ANSI/SAAMI specification requirements.

Ammunition Services:

• Custom cartridge development
• Rigorous FBI ammunition testing
• Pressure and velocity qualification
• Testing performed in ballistics gelatin – including shots in bare gelatin, heavy clothing (FBI specification), steel, wallboard, plywood, and laminated automobile safety glass
• Material analysis performed in our metallurgical laboratory
• Real-time evaluations and problem-solving performed by our engineering and chemical specialists
• Fragmentation analysis
• High speed video
• Shot velocities captured by Oehler chronograph
• Hardness testing
• Reloading center for on-site adjustments and load development

Ammunition Standards:

• SAAMI Z299.1 – Pressure and Velocity of Rimfire Sporting Ammunition for the Use of Commercial Manufacturers, 1992
• SAAMI Z299.2 – Pressure and Velocity of Shotshell Ammunition for the Use of Commercial Manufacturers, 1992
• SAAMI Z299.3 – Pressure and Velocity of Centerfire Pistol and Revolver Ammunition for the Use of Commercial Manufacturers, 1993
• SAAMI Z.299.4 – Pressure and Velocity of Centerfire Rifle Sporting Ammunition for the Use of Commercial Manufacturers, 1992
• TOP-4-2-016 – Ammunition, Small Arms
• MIL-DTL-1217D – Cartridge, Caliber .30: Armor Piercing, M2
• MIL-DTL-3066D – Cartridges, Caliber .50: Armor Piercing Incendiary, M8; and Armor Piercing Incendiary Tracer, M20
• MIL-P-3984 – Propellant for Small Arms Ammunition

Recoil Test and Analysis – customized for any small arms weapon:

• Pistols, rifles
• Tri-axial acceleration
• Strain gaging
• Velocity and displacement measurements
• High speed camera work