Daily Archives: Mar 14, 2026

Charles Mitchell

8 Pistol Designs That Quietly Changed Handguns Forever

The history of handguns is inclined to glorify the noisy moments: a well-known contract, a cameo on the battlefield, a movie close-up. The larger change usually occurs elsewhere, within the receiver, in the form of a spring or in the form in which a magazine displays a cartridge. Then there...
Thomas Reed

The U.S. Army’s Most Legendary Sidearms and Why They Still Matter

A sidearm in the army seldom lands on the spotlight using its specifications. Pistols that survive to fame are likely to be receiving their credentials at the fringes of history when training doctrine is shakened, when logistics collapse to demand, when a novel mechanism alters the expectations of a...
Charles Mitchell

9 Rifle Cartridges Hunters Regret When the Animal Is Bigger

In hunting camps, “underpowered” rarely means a cartridge can’t punch holes in paper. It means the round runs out of margin when angles get bad, bones get heavy, wind shows up, or the distance stretches past what the setup really supports. Bullet design has improved bonded cores, monolithics, and sleeker...