Daily Archives: Jun 28, 2026

Some rifle cartridges look excellent on paper until the target gets far enough away to expose their weak points. Inside normal hunting distances, many of them are easy to like. Past 800 yards, small flaws in bullet design, velocity retention, chamber geometry, or recoil management start showing up as...

Duty pistols have long been judged on familiar engineering priorities: reliability, durability, controllability, and ease of maintenance. In the last few years, another requirement has moved closer to the center of the design brief: resistance to illegal full-auto conversion devices commonly known as switches or auto sears. That shift is...

Few machines in regular use are as conservative as firearms. New finishes, new materials, and new marketing labels appear constantly, but the underlying ideas often come from much older designs that solved hard mechanical problems first. That is especially true when a platform got the fundamentals right: feeding, locking,...