Daily Archives: Jun 30, 2026

Charles Mitchell

7 Rifle Calibers That Sound Tough Until the Field Tests Them

Hype rounds after rifle-carts as it rounds after rifles: good word will spread over a greater distance than a range table. To hunters and the practical rifleman the trouble begins when the name of a cartridge is confounded with ability particularly when the game on the other side of...
Charles Mitchell

8 Handgun Calibers Instructors Flag as Risky Choices for Everyday Defense

Handgun rounds are treated like personalities: resolute, feeble, snappy, repentant. Actually, cartridges act as engineering systems. Minor modifications of ignition, barrel length, recoil impulse, and bullet design may switch result in those ways that are the most important when time and precision fail under pressure. What works in a controlled...
Charles Mitchell

9 “Great on Paper” Guns Owners Wish They’d Never Brought Home

A gun can be ideal on paper and fail to impress a gunman a range at a time. Remorse is not often to do with an epic breakage. It is constructed out of minor, repeatable issues, namely, the feeding becomes picky, the triggers become rebellious against the scene, the...