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/ Dear Reload Swiss RS Community, / You all may already know that the sponsoring format has been changed over the year 2025. This new chapter should bring important updates to our sponsorship structu

/ The 22 ARC is the second of the ARC (Advanced Rifle Cartridge) family released by Hornady, the first being the 6mm ARC and most recent being the 338 ARC. There is a good quantity of videos on YouTub

/ Dear RS family, / I have just finished processing some additional customer load data for you. That now takes us to 1291 recipes – or handloads, to use the technical term. It’s incredible how much k

/ We thought velocity measurement might be a topic of interest to you, so we bought ourselves a Garmin Xero C1 Pro chronograph and tested it in our shooting tunnel. Located in Wimmis, the tunnel is ap

The 10.4 × 38 mm Vetterli rimfire cartridge was the Swiss ordnance cartridge from 1869 until 1889. For Vetterli rifles, the cartridge was loaded with 4 g (61.5 grains) of black powder, pushing its 20.

/ Last year visiting a gun shop I saw two pistoles looking like a SIG P210 but smaller, the shop owner told me it was a French PA 1935 made by the SACM (Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques)

1. Introduction / Over recent years, several Swiss Cantons have introduced regulations to restrict the use of ammunition that contains lead. / Although perfectly suitable and equally effective alt

/ Dear reloaders, / It is possible to use “classic” fast burning powders to achieve reduced loads and subsonic loads for long guns. However, the fact that only 30 - 50% of the possible load volume i

/ Dear reloaders, / There has been a shortage of primers for reloading for some time now. For this reason, other types of primers than those recommended are loaded. Instead of the usual Small Pistol

/ Dear all, / Some time ago, we described how the QR code can be deciphered. Now, of course, time does not stand still in Switzerland either. As a result, the 2022 code has been enlarged and more in

/ Dear reloaders, / Modern nitrocellulose powders and high-quality nitrocellulose have been developed and produced in Wimmis in Switzerland for more than 100 years. Nitrochemie Wimmis AG has existed

/ The new RS14 from Nitrochemie Wimmis is a special powder with low bulk density and reduced energy content. It is also suitable for cartridges that were originally designed for black powder propellan