Daily Archives: Mar 15, 2026

Stress can find a way of revealing weak points. In handguns the aforementioned weak link is usually a cartridge-and-platform combination that appears good on paper but fails miserably when performance, penetration, recoil management, and real world constraints come together. The yardstick long used by the FBI of 12 to...

Caliber arguments tend to have the conclusion that it is the placement of the shot that counts, and it does--just as soon as the projectile can actually get to what it is intended to disrupt. Defensive pistol bullets do not have much energy to operate on, and therefore, the...

The idea of airplanes is that common politeness has been engineered into some sort of engineering issue: there is not enough space, and the timing is fixed, and there is a crew operating under a tightly scheduled program of inspections and service. Good intentions may cause friction in that...