RWS (ammunition)

RWS logo

RWS is a brand for hunting and sports ammunition . RWS stands for Rheinisch-Westfälische Sprengstofffabriken and is a registered brand name of RUAG Ammotec , a subsidiary of the Swiss technology group RUAG , Bern (Switzerland).

history

Ammunition products have been manufactured in the Stadeln / Fürth plant for more than 100 years . In 1855 Heinrich Utendoerffer received permission to set up a laboratory for the manufacture of ignition charges. In 1889, Utendoerffer sold his company, which was then still in Nuremberg, to the "Rheinisch-Westfälische Sprengstoff-Actien-Gesellschaft" (RWS) in Cologne. After there were repeated problems with the granting of a license in Nuremberg, the "Rheinisch-Westfälische Sprengstoff-Actien-Gesellschaft, Munitions Factory Nuremberg department" was established in 1894. H. Utendoerffer ”moved to what is now the Stadeln district of Fürth. A wide range of products with an “explosive character” is still produced here today. The First World War made the plant one of the largest private primer production facilities in the world. At the end of the 1960s, the RWS, Rottweil and GECO brands were merged under the Dynamit Nobel umbrella. In 2002, the Swiss technology group RUAG took over Dynamit Nobel AG and with it the existing brand landscape.

Products

.30-06 , Silver Selection

.22 lfB

All RWS cartridges are manufactured in Germany at the Stadeln / Fürth location. There are more than nine different hunting bullets available. RWS cartridges are used as examples in text and training books for hunters and sport shooters.

Others

RWS supports top-class sport in Germany and in 2010 was the main sponsor of the 50th ISSF World Championships in sport shooting in Munich.

Web links

Commons : RWS - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Dynamit Nobel (ed.): 100 years of the Stadeln factory . Sulzbach-Rosenberg 1996.
↑ Cancer: Before and after the hunter test . Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-8354-0605-6 , pp. 767-789 .
↑ Heintges: Safely through the hunter test - weapons and ammunition . Marktredwitz 2009, ISBN 978-3-935510-47-9 , pp. 82-89 .
↑ Andre Busche: Preparation for the weapon proficiency test for sport shooters, for weapon collectors and the security industry . Norderstedt 2007, ISBN 978-3-8334-9617-2 , pp. 111 ff .
^ The 50th ISSF World Championships in Sport Shooting 2010. In: dsb.de. Deutscher Schützenbund eV , accessed on September 12, 2015 .

[1] Dynamit Nobel (ed.): 100 years of the Stadeln factory . Sulzbach-Rosenberg 1996.

[2] Cancer: Before and after the hunter test . Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-8354-0605-6 , pp. 767-789 .

[3] Heintges: Safely through the hunter test - weapons and ammunition . Marktredwitz 2009, ISBN 978-3-935510-47-9 , pp. 82-89 .

[4] Andre Busche: Preparation for the weapon proficiency test for sport shooters, for weapon collectors and the security industry . Norderstedt 2007, ISBN 978-3-8334-9617-2 , pp. 111 ff .

[5] The 50th ISSF World Championships in Sport Shooting 2010. In: dsb.de. Deutscher Schützenbund eV , accessed on September 12, 2015 .