Daily Archives: Mar 15, 2026

The 9x19mm did not become the cartridge of choice in a handgun by chance. It persisted because it was practical to real world limitations: it was recoil manageable, had terminal performance usefulness, and its magazine capacity could be scaled between duty guns and compact carry. What is easy to overlook...

It reappears every season in new forms: A hunter picks out a cartridge to do what it sounds like, rather than what it reliably does in tissue. It is that discrepancy between anticipation and terminal performance in which long tracking jobs commence. Contemporary bullets are perfect, and they cannot resist...

The interior defensive shootings squeeze the distance, the time and the decision making into a couple of disorganized seconds. Once in such an atmosphere, folklores concerning preventing force, the behavior of ammunition, and recoil management are likely to linger due to sounding basic, and basicness is reassuring. The issue is...