Daily Archives: Jun 30, 2026

The debates on the defensive caliber level can easily be reduced to slogans, yet the trick of it is mechanical: reliability, decent penetration, and manageable recoil must appear simultaneously, under pressure. That fact is the reason why some cartridges and even how people are traditionally using them continue to be...

The 9x19mm did not become the cartridge of choice in a handgun by chance. It persisted because it was practical to real world limitations: it was recoil manageable, had terminal performance usefulness, and its magazine capacity could be scaled between duty guns and compact carry. What is easy to overlook...

It reappears every season in new forms: A hunter picks out a cartridge to do what it sounds like, rather than what it reliably does in tissue. It is that discrepancy between anticipation and terminal performance in which long tracking jobs commence. Contemporary bullets are perfect, and they cannot resist...