Daily Archives: Jun 30, 2026

Charles Mitchell

7 Design Choices That Quietly Make Some Guns Unreliable Under Stress

There is hardly a single dramatic fault that makes one say the unreliability. In many cases, it is a series of minor engineering choices, the choice of material, the shape, the spring constants and interfaces, which seems to work fine on the bench but collapses once heat, dirt, and...
Charles Mitchell

7 Ballistic Myths That Quietly Ruin Long-Range Rifle Accuracy

One spectacular error hardly produces long-range misses. In more instances, precision is diffused through silent assumptions ideas that are ballistically true, since they are not only repeated at the range, but supported online and sometimes even rewarded by chance. The thing is that such myths do not necessarily lead...
James Thompson

7 Ballistics Myths That Get Good Shooters Hurt Under Stress

Ballistics talk circulates in gun shops, classes, and comment sections since it seems quantifiable. Measures in inches, feet per second, weight of grain, figures of energy numbers resemble certitude. Certainty is precisely what is lost in the first place under stress. The shooter who sees the truth but makes judgments...