Daily Archives: Mar 16, 2026

By keeping up the 1911-versus-polymer argument, it has neatly dodged their respective bullets, as each is correct- just not on the same matters. One platform is made to be handled with care and refined mechanically, the other created to be shoulder-lashed, fired at frequently, and maintained in operation without...

Legendary Army sidearms are not made with reputations that are on paper. They persisted since they addressed a very narrow issue, usually with some squalid conditions such as ammunition standardization, production spillage, or the fact that the majority of pistols are carried much more than they are discharged. Take a...

The old standard of 1,000 foot-pounds on game of the deer size, quoted so long by Col. Townsend Whelen, and yet still quoted today, serves as a way of sanity-checking a cartridge: does it have enough margin to drive the hunting bullet into the vital organs and not burst...