Daily Archives: Jul 1, 2026

It is in the bullet, you see, that you have the one true connection with the game you hunt. If it fails, you fail. That sentence is a representation of that bit of caliber talk which never gets to the gun shop counter: a cartridge may be correct, ordinary...

Army handguns provoke the discussion concerning caliber, nostalgia, and what the so-called stopping power actually means. The tougher tale is the institutional one: what were the sidearms which made the Army reform its approach to purchasing and maintaining and training and even measuring reliability. Within two centuries of issue pistols...

Shadow has become a household word ever since the first image of a black hole was produced. The more difficult part has been in transforming that figure into an operating map--the connection of the hot plasma ring of brightness to the great jets reaching out thousands of light-years. In the...