Lindcott Armory Reference

472 Cartridges.
252 Powders.
25,001 Factory Loads.

The searchable reference for firearms, ammunition, and ballistics data. Built by a shooter, not a media company.

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Cartridges and powders. Results labeled by type.

472
Cartridges
252
Powders
25,001
Factory Loads
10,002
Gun Models
558
Manufacturers
7,535
Range Locations
4,638
Competitions

Data sourced from SAAMI, CIP, Hodgdon, and manufacturer specifications.

Core tools

Firearms tools
built on real data.

Every tool cross-links to the others. Looking up a cartridge surfaces loads, powders, ballistics, and chambered firearms — not a dead-end description.

What makes it different

Wikipedia tells you what
a cartridge is.
This connects what it does.

.308 Winchester
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How it works

Connected answers,
not dead-end articles.

A search for .308 should not stop at a description. It should lead to loads, ballistics, powders, compatible rifles, reloading data, and ammo prices. Every page on this site connects to the others.

That is the difference between a reference site and a reference tool.

The private side

Lindcott Armory
Vault

The private app for your own firearms records. Your guns, ammo, optics, range sessions, and maintenance logs — separate from the public reference tools.

Offline-first. Your data does not require a connection.
No public collection display. No social feed around gun ownership.
AI assistant with full vault context. Maintenance alerts from round counts.
Private by design. No ads. No data selling.
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The missing tools
gun people actually search for.

Not standalone tools. Each one connects back to cartridges, loads, and powders — one dataset, more ways in.

Reloading Reference

Cartridge + bullet weight + powder → sourced min/max charge tables, attributed to published manuals. The question people search thousands of times a month with nowhere good to go.

State Law Matrix

Suppressors, NFA items, carry permits, mag limits, constitutional carry, castle doctrine, straight-wall hunting zones. 50 states, sourced, with correction submissions.

Ammo Price Tracker

Live shipped cost-per-round for common calibers, historical percentile context, and email alerts when a cartridge drops below your threshold.

Gun Model Pages

10,002 models in the database. Each page connects to chambered cartridges, factory loads, compatible optics, manuals, and Vault tracking.

“Can I Use This For?”

Plain-English answers to the questions people actually type: Can I use 5.56 in a .223 chamber? Can I hunt deer with .223 in Pennsylvania? Short answer, technical depth, state notes.

Dealer Platform

Clean, filterable catalog websites for gun dealers. Caliber and ammo filtering that actually works because it runs on Lindcott reference data.

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