Daily Archives: Mar 16, 2026

Thomas Reed

Ten 9mm Pistols That Keep Earning Trust, Generation After Generation

It would appear that reliability is a strange kind of reputation: it is created during dark times, and it will always be remembered every time something finally goes wrong. The world of 9x19 is so subdivided into a little handful of them, who were taught to make their followers the...
Thomas Reed

5 Metal-Frame Sidearms That Keep Earning Space on Elite Loadouts

Polymer pistols are now the state of the art in duty handguns, but that state of affairs did not entirely obliterate an old fact: in some operations, mass, rigidity and mechanical feedback still pay. With high-end users, metal-frame pistols do live on since they continue to operate as maintenance...
Charles Mitchell

Rifle Cartridges That Keep Shooting Small Groups When Conditions Get Messy

On an still day at 100 yards you may have nearly any good rifle-and-ammo combination and print a pretty group. The actual separators appear when the wind begins to play with the bullet, the light becomes flat, barrels become hot and the shooters no longer receive perfect positions. Consistency -...