Rifle cartridges are not the most effective mechanisms for producing high projectile speed. Other things work much better. The 120mm smoothbore main gun on the M-1 Abrams tank fires a depleted-uranium ...

Air rifles were once considered accurate if they shot minute of soda can, but a lot has changed in the last 20 or so years. There are now air rifles capable of shooting pellets into one ragged hole at ...

Available in both .177 and .22 calibers, delivering pellets up to 1,200 and 1,000 fps respectively. Pepper-filled capsules are launched at 350 fps, they are effective at up to twice the distance as ...