Daily Archives: Mar 16, 2026

Charles Mitchell

7 AR-15 Misunderstandings That Keep Spreading for No Good Reason

The AR-15 magnet has captured your attention in the same way as a magnet picks up filings: fast, untidily and with an awful amount of sharp little pieces glued together. The bulk of the misunderstanding is a result of confusion between brand history, mechanical operation and a quilt of rules...
Charles Mitchell

7 “Plenty Accurate” Rifle Cartridges That Still Fail Big-Game Reality Tests

Even up to our time big-game hunters can get everything right, get the game, make a steady rest, press a clean trigger, and still get a lengthy and doubtful trail when the cartridge cannot drive a hunting bullet deep enough to strike life-giving organs at bad angles. The present bullets...
James Thompson

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Under the Microscope: 9 Findings That Changed the...

When an object comes into the solar system the problem is not merely to observe it, but to measure it quickly, in many wavelengths, so as to make brief glances into permanent information. Comet 3I/ATLAS has made that challenge come into sharp focus. Not a single confirmed interstellar object has...