Daily Archives: Jul 1, 2026

The old standard of 1,000 foot-pounds on game of the deer size, quoted so long by Col. Townsend Whelen, and yet still quoted today, serves as a way of sanity-checking a cartridge: does it have enough margin to drive the hunting bullet into the vital organs and not burst...

What polymer can seldom offer is the overload of mechanical feel of A 1911 on the belt, rendering every control and every shot intentional. That is at a price in terms of weight, maintenance and capacity-price which is not reflected on a spec sheet until the gun is carried,...

There is nothing like long range accuracy in making one feel humbled. It is not so difficult to print little parties when it is clear-cut and still--it is to maintain the effects of the rifle and the load, the wind and the man in the same exact place when...