Daily Archives: Mar 15, 2026

What actually defeats long-range performance: a bad rifle, or a cartridge that ceases to perform the minute wind, temperature and recoil control become real? In match rifles, hunting rigs, and even gas guns, some chamberings recur many times, and there is a reason behind this, which does not involve hype....

A handgun cartridge is even intended to be the most foreseeable component of a defensive strategy: press the trigger, it is bound to work the same way every time. Once that predictability is lost, either by shallow penetration, or inconsistent growth, or too much recoil or merely by ignition...

Long-range shooting appears to be a problem in ballistics until the initial few shots reveal it to be also a system problem. After 600 yards it is possible to predict the effects of gravity, but very difficult to predict the effects of wind and the cartridge decision begins to...