Daily Archives: Jun 30, 2026

The reputations gather quickly on the rifle cartridges. Others make theirs in decades of consistent shooting; others on range-day preciseness, mphs, and internet abbreviations that dissipate the instant a bullet must enter hide, body, and bone at an oblique angle. The cartridge is just a component of a system in...

Defensive handgun performance is not about swagger but rather about engineering: you must have a reliable ignition, sufficient penetration to hit vital areas, and recoil that will still allow accurate hits to be made when fine motor control is lost. Caliber arguments omit another aspect, ballastic gelatin and barrier testing....

Almost all safety errors of the AR-15 do not begin with imprudence. They begin with some common knowledge that is correct until the rifle begins acting in a way that it is not supposed to: a round is acting strangely behind an interior wall, a build will not cycle,...