Daily Archives: Jul 1, 2026

Charles Mitchell

Rifle Calibers That Hold Tight Groups When Distance and Wind Get...

Paper groups are soothing, yet fail to convey the entire narrative. It is the calibers, which have reputation of being accurate, which remain able to be predictable in the event that their barrel length changes, temperatures change, and a crosswind begins to act on a bullet over several hundred...
Thomas Reed

Ten 9mm Pistols That Made “Modern” Means Something

The 9mm handgun world seems to be fond of declaring everything as modern even when the fundamental concepts are decades old. The point where the legendarily good pistol and the popular pistol part ways is when the pistol altered the expectations capacity, materials, lockup, triggers, ergonomics or just what...
Charles Mitchell

8 Handgun Calibers That Create Risky Tradeoffs in Home Defense

The debates on handgun caliber are typically set up as a choice between stopping power and recoil. Within a house, the more practical tension is dissimilar: reliability, sufficient penetration and controllability all have to co-exist, and some cartridges cause some serious trade-offs exactly where margins are low. Gel tests, barrier...