Press Releases

https://www.youtube.com/embed/q8RRLMkEIn4 Watch Troy's 5x5 Bull Elk drop at 8:05 on this YouTube video.   (Warning parents, explicit language used!) Troy Bennett is an active member of the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) for the United States Army and an avid hunter in his free time. This last hunting season, after coming back from deployment, he only had a short amount of time to get ready for his upcoming DIY Colorado Elk 4th Season rifle hunt. He turned to Applied Ballistics Munitions due to their reputation for being the highest quality ammunition available in the market. ABM ammo is loaded with premium Berger bullets, which [...]

This year’s Southwest Nationals Long Range Shooting Competition has come to an end and we are proud to say it was the best one we have seen so far. The Desert Sharpshooters and Ben Avery Range can now proudly boast that this has become the largest long range match in the country. We had over 340 shooters that attended from 41 of the United States as well as from Scotland, Ireland and Canada. This was 80 more competitors than last year! Nightforce Optics stepped up to become a Title Sponsor alongside Berger Bullets this year. Over $17,000 in prize money and $120,000 worth of giveaways [...]

The 2015 Southwest Nationals is quickly approaching! We expect to hit our capacity of 270 shooters, and are excited to welcome shooters from Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom, as well as all across the United States. We are also thrilled to announce a new building and second parking lot at the 1000 yard range! Berger Bullets and Nightforce Optics have teamed up with Arizona Game and Fish to make these new additions possible. We will also honor Middleton “Mid” Tompkins by dedicating the 1000 yard range to him. The new 1000 yard range building. Mid Tompkins is a legend in the highpower [...]

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'Tis the season of giving, and in that spirit Berger Bullets has teamed up with Brownells for the Get One, Give One Sweepstakes. The winner of the sweepstakes will receive a Berger Bundle that includes three 100ct boxes of Berger Bullets of your choice, a hat & shirt, stickers, a pen, cheek pad, hunting DVD and brochure. And since it is the season of giving, the winner will also be able to gift a free Berger Bundle to a friend! Both packages are worth $680, so head over to the Facebook contest page to enter now! Have you liked our Facebook Page yet? Like us [...]

Angelina Gonzalez and her Grandfather, Lou Murdica. These targets earned Angelina 4th place in the 2nd 100 yard Agg. This last week has been a big week for young Angelina Gonzalez. First, she turned 10 years old, then her Grandfather, Lou Murdica, took her to her first ever benchrest competition. Lou has been teaching Angelina to shoot a railgun for quite some time now, and he knew she was ready to shoot competitively at 100 yards. So for her birthday, Lou brought her out to the Unl5-Unl5 Arizona State Invitational at Ben Avery Shooting Facility in Phoenix, Arizona. The results were better than either [...]

Update: ABM Ammo has become Berger Ammunition. For more info, click here.

This past June, Eric Stecker visited with Tim McWhorter and Allen Rovig at McWhorter Custom Rifles in South Georgia to hunt some wild hogs. For several years now, McWhorter Custom Rifles have used Berger Bullets almost exclusively and they love them. As Allen said, "The performance on game and accuracy is second to none." This trip was Eric's first trip to Georgia for hunting hogs and the Brush Country Monsters team came along to film the whole adventure from start to finish. Eric's favorite game to hunt is hogs, so he was quite excited to be there. Allen and Tim let him pick out a [...]

Eric Stecker at the Southwest Nationals We are proud to announce the promotion of Eric Stecker to the position of Company President. Eric will continue to strategically lead the company to new heights while providing shooters with genuine enhancements to the rifle shooting experience. Eric started making and selling Berger bullets right out of high school, and quickly rose to become Plant Manager. After a short hiatus, Eric rejoined the Berger team when Berger was purchased by the Sheeks family in 2004. With over a decade of Walt’s training and direct guidance, Eric put Berger Bullets on a path to regain its reputation [...]

Update: ABM Ammo has become Berger Ammunition. For more info, click here.