Daily Archives: Mar 16, 2026

Charles Mitchell

AR-15 Misunderstandings Shooters Should Stop Repeating

The AR-15 attracts the appeals the way the magnet attracts filings: quick, sloppy, and not necessarily grounded in the way the machine works. The reputation of the platform is constructed out of silhouettes, slogans, half-memorized words, and then transmitted as part of common knowledge, despite the mechanics underneath running...
Charles Mitchell

Precision Rifle Cartridges That Stay Honest When Conditions Get Messy

Every shooter has seen a fine team disintegrate due to the slightest alteration: new lot of ammunition, cold barrel, puff of wind that was not there half a minute earlier. The cartridges which achieve a go-to status are not magic but just more reproducible in rifles, barrels and on...
Charles Mitchell

7 Takeaways That Explain the OA-1K Skyraider II’s Hardest Tradeoffs

The OA-1K Skyraider II was once again in the news spotlight, thanks to a dust plume in an Oklahoma field, which was yet another thing that rarely proves beneficial to any fledgling program, a crash landing. The plane survived, and the initial story of the plane is not only...