Daily Archives: Mar 14, 2026

A military sidearm is easy to describe and much harder to define. The Army’s handgun programs gradually turned that definition into a set of measurable demands, and those demands reached far beyond caliber or brand. What emerged over decades of testing was a broader engineering lesson: a service pistol had...

Tight groups rarely disappear for a single dramatic reason. More often, accuracy slips away through a stack of small setup errors that each look harmless on their own but combine into a rifle that suddenly feels unpredictable. That pattern shows up again and again in precision shooting. A rifle can...

Pocket pistols create a stubborn engineering problem. The guns are built around short barrels, light slides, and low recoil expectations, but many defensive loads are designed around performance standards that were shaped by larger handguns and full-power service cartridges. That mismatch shows up quickly in gelatin. Under heavy-clothing protocols, a...