Daily Archives: Jun 30, 2026

A bad decision can hardly lead to a wounded animal. It is more commonly the pile of little ballistic thumb-in-the-eye-gap knowledge-of the anatomy, the behavior of bullets, range, stability, and the things that an expelled projectile can (and cannot) accomplish when the firing becomes compromised in the field. The similar...

Reliability of handguns is a commonly used slogan: It will run anything, Just tap-rack, It is broken in now. When stressed, the said shortcuts come into conflict with two entities which do not bargain human performance boundaries and mechanical reality. Reliability is also not a trait, but a system. The...

Enough handgun history is being sold under famous model names, service adoptions, and the question of caliber. The less glamorous tale to 9x19mm frequently inhabits the less glamorous end: geometrical compromises, production compromises which became norms, and safety mechanisms which transformed the ways pistols were carried and used in...