About
What This Is
A good gun doesn't stay put. It gets bought new, carried, shot, cleaned, upgraded and traded, and sooner or later it's passed on. Every step along the way goes better with people who know guns.
That's Lindcott Armory. We're a gun shop in Northborough, Massachusetts, with great new guns, quality used ones and trade-ins when you're ready for something better. We'll help you make the gun you have your own with accessories, cleaning and gunsmithing, and keep you stocked with ammo so you can get out and shoot more.
Your first gun or your next one, we'll help you find it.
Where good guns change hands.
The Problem It Solves
Looking up a cartridge today sends you across Wikipedia for history, ammo.com for a load list, the manufacturer's PDF for spec data, Hodgdon's site for reloading data, and three different forum threads that contradict each other on pressure limits. None of those sources link to each other.
The same problem exists for powders, firearms, and competition data. Everything is siloed. If you want to know which powders work well for 6.5 Creedmoor, what firearms are chambered in it, and what trajectory looks like at 500 yards: that information exists, but not in one place, and not linked together.
This site is that one place.
What's In It
Reference tools include: ballistic trajectory comparison (up to 4 loads at once, G1 point-mass model), powder burn rate chart, hunting cartridge guide (33 huntable species), military service weapon timeline, and individual pages for every cartridge and powder in the database.
Who Built This
Lindcott Armory was built by a shooter, collector, and reloader based in Massachusetts. The site grew out of a personal frustration: no single reference existed that connected cartridge data to powders and chambered firearms in a way that was both accurate and actually searchable.
The data standards reflect how a serious shooter actually uses reference information; the difference between a SAAMI-measured PSI and a NATO PSI matters if you're loading for a chamber that was rated to one spec. Burn rate proximity does not mean charge weight substitution. An "estimated" BC is not the same as a published one. These distinctions are built into the data model, not treated as footnotes.
Questions or corrections: sales@lindcottarmory.com
Data Sources
Cartridge specifications come primarily from SAAMI for US commercial cartridges and CIP for European cartridges. Manufacturer technical specifications and historical reference texts cover obsolete cartridges not standardized by either body.
Powder data is sourced from manufacturer published data sheets. Burn-rate positions that cannot be confirmed from a primary source are marked as estimated.
Competition data is sourced from USPSA, IDPA, ATA, NSCA, and SASS match databases, scraped and updated on a rolling basis.
Where data conflicts between sources, we follow a defined source hierarchy. That hierarchy, and the rules for how calculated fields work, are documented on the methodology page.
Data Standards
Calculated fields are labeled. Estimated values are noted as estimated. Where SAAMI and CIP data conflict for the same cartridge (because they use different measurement methods), both values are shown and the standard is noted. We do not silently choose one.
User-submitted corrections are reviewed against primary sources before any record is changed. If a correction is confirmed, the source note is updated along with the value. If a correction is disputed (meaning two primary sources give different numbers), we note the conflict in the record rather than picking a side.
More detail on sourcing, measurement standards, and the safety limitations of ballistic calculations is on the data methodology page.
The App
Lindcott Armory also includes a private vault app for tracking your own guns, ammo lots, sessions, maintenance schedules, and optics. The reference site and the app share the same database backend, but they are separate products with separate purposes: the reference site is public and contains no user data; the app is private and contains only your data.
The app is available as a progressive web app and native iOS/Android app. Details at the vault app.
Contact
For data corrections and suggestions: lindcottarmory.com/suggest
For everything else: sales@lindcottarmory.com
Lindcott Armory LLC is a Massachusetts company. The shop is in Northborough.
Write to us
The shop is in Northborough, Massachusetts. Call, or send a note with the form and a person answers.
Address
276 West Main Street, Unit 12A (second floor)
Northborough, MA 01532
Phone
(774) 625-1252
Email
sales@lindcottarmory.com
