Daily Archives: Jul 1, 2026

The size of concealed-carry pistols continue to dwindle, whereas the performance is heading the opposite way. It is not difficult to find good defensive ammo and it is difficult to match a load with what a particular carry gun can actually produce with the barrel length, size of grip,...

The AR-15 attracts the appeals the way the magnet attracts filings: quick, sloppy, and not necessarily grounded in the way the machine works. The reputation of the platform is constructed out of silhouettes, slogans, half-memorized words, and then transmitted as part of common knowledge, despite the mechanics underneath running...

Every shooter has seen a fine team disintegrate due to the slightest alteration: new lot of ammunition, cold barrel, puff of wind that was not there half a minute earlier. The cartridges which achieve a go-to status are not magic but just more reproducible in rifles, barrels and on...