The publication contains a detailed description of all types of ammunition for smooth-bore and rifled weapons, including grades and weights of black and smokeless powders (Sokol, Bars, Sunar, VUSD), foreign and domestic shot numbering and its selection, types of cartridges, their modification and preparation for equipment, methods of making shot, buckshot, bullets, wads, and gaskets, drawings of devices and bullets, equipment of short-range, long-range and semi-charged shot cartridges, description and methods of equipment of more than twenty types of bullets for smoothbore and techniques for enhancing the expansive action of bullets of rifled weapons, techniques for zeroing shotguns and rifles. The reference manual is designed for both a novice hunter and an experienced fisherman and sportsman.