Daily Archives: Jun 29, 2026

Ballistic gelatin has become one of the few ways to compare handgun ammunition without drifting into folklore. It does not duplicate a human body, and it does not answer every question, but it offers a repeatable test medium for measuring penetration and expansion under controlled conditions. That matters because handgun...

Long-range misses do not always start with bad trigger control or a poor optic. Quite often, they begin with a cartridge choice that asks the shooter to fight unnecessary recoil, wind drift, barrel wear, feeding quirks, or bullet-matching problems before the shot ever breaks. That does not make these chamberings...

Some rifle cartridges make long-range shooting feel forgiving. Others do the opposite. They hold less margin for a rushed trigger press, an imprecise wind call, or a shaky position, and that is exactly why they reveal mistakes so clearly once distance stretches out. At long range, the cartridge is never...