Daily Archives: Jul 2, 2026

On an still day at 100 yards you may have nearly any good rifle-and-ammo combination and print a pretty group. The actual separators appear when the wind begins to play with the bullet, the light becomes flat, barrels become hot and the shooters no longer receive perfect positions. Consistency -...

What makes a sidearm in an Army a yardstick to all that comes after? It is rarely pure ballistics. The really consequential pistol are those which solve a certain problem of operating--then reveal the next one--advance by those the doctrine, the logistics and even the ergonomics. That trend goes back...

It's not often that the whole planet has to unite to deal with a thing that predates even our solar system and to watch that thing ignore the laws of physics that apply to comets. This has happened with 3I/ATLAS, which ranks as the third known interstellar visitor. The...