Daily Archives: Jun 30, 2026

A sidearm in the army seldom lands on the spotlight using its specifications. Pistols that survive to fame are likely to be receiving their credentials at the fringes of history when training doctrine is shakened, when logistics collapse to demand, when a novel mechanism alters the expectations of a...

In hunting camps, “underpowered” rarely means a cartridge can’t punch holes in paper. It means the round runs out of margin when angles get bad, bones get heavy, wind shows up, or the distance stretches past what the setup really supports. Bullet design has improved bonded cores, monolithics, and sleeker...

Handgun ammunition is treated as a cheat code: choose the correct caliber and all the rest is taken care of. The cartridge must actually carry out two nasty chores in ugly environments in the real world of self-defense: light a match all the time, and punch a hole in...