Daily Archives: Jun 29, 2026

Arctic can seem to a distance still ice, rock and water in the familiar mould. The East Greenland Dickson Fjord was an example of how rapidly this stability may reverse when a mountain slope, a thinning glacier and a narrow basin align in an incorrect manner. A huge rock and...

We do not have any magic handgun cartridge, just tradeoffs that become apparent quickly when stress sets in. The contemporary terms of the debate have changed to not so much knockdown power but to quantifiable performance: reliable ignition, sufficient penetration to critical targets, manageable recoil to make follow-up shots,...

Polymer has had the burden of the duty-pistol talk all these decades, yet it can never remove a more basic fact: some older, heavier handguns continue to appear despite being older because they remain functional. Mass and rigidity and established mechanical layouts can be important in training cycles with...