Daily Archives: Mar 17, 2026

Any caliber can be lethal with ideal shot placement. The truism is echoed in gun stores, on shooting ranges, and throughout the internet forums. However, as hundreds of thousands of ballistic tests and actual shootings illustrate, there are boundaries to that advice. A bullet that cannot penetrate as deeply...

CES has always been a spectacle, but the most useful way to read it is as an engineering signal. The noise fades quickly; the underlying design decisions tend to persist for years. For the official Best of CES 2026 program, more than 40 journalists across multiple tech publications spent...

The rounds of some rifles just shoot easy. They are not all boxes, but because the cartridge shape, typical barrel dimensions, and developed ammo ecosystem are likely to deliver repeatable populations over a broad range of rifles and conditions. Consistency is the real hook. Once a round acts as we...