Hornady BLACK® ammunition features versatile loads optimized for excellent performance from America’s favorite guns. Loaded with legendary Hornady® V-Max bullets, Hornady BLACK® ammunition is designed to fit, feed and function in a variety of platforms. Direct impingement, gas piston, suppressed, unsuppressed, inertia, bolt, pump, supersonic, subsonic, rifle, mid‑length, carbine or pistol – Hornady BLACK ammunition delivers superior performance for a variety of applications.

With its combination of proven materials, innovative design and streamlined profile, the Hornady® V‑MAX® represents the pinnacle of what a specialized varmint bullet can achieve, offering straight‑line trajectories, enhanced accuracy, dramatic expansion and explosive fragmentation at a wide range of distances and velocities.

The industry's leading varmint bullet with polymer tip and streamlined design results in flat trajectories. The concentricity of the match grade AMP® bullet jacket provides maximum accuracy at all ranges as well as explosive expansion, even at velocities as low as 1600 fps.