Daily Archives: Mar 14, 2026

Charles Mitchell

The Long-Range Accuracy Myth That’s Wrecking Your Groups

The most resistant long-range accuracy myth is easy: small groups at 100 yards are sure to become small groups at 1,000 yards. That perception makes range sessions a process of pursuing minutely mechanical gains where the underlying causes of error are increasing exponentially. Wishful scaling is not long range rewards...
Charles Mitchell

The Ethical Shot: 9 Ballistic Mistakes That Turn Hunts Into Wounding...

A bad decision can hardly lead to a wounded animal. It is more commonly the pile of little ballistic thumb-in-the-eye-gap knowledge-of the anatomy, the behavior of bullets, range, stability, and the things that an expelled projectile can (and cannot) accomplish when the firing becomes compromised in the field. The similar...
James Thompson

7 Handgun Reliability Myths That Get Shooters Hurt Under Stress

Reliability of handguns is a commonly used slogan: It will run anything, Just tap-rack, It is broken in now. When stressed, the said shortcuts come into conflict with two entities which do not bargain human performance boundaries and mechanical reality. Reliability is also not a trait, but a system. The...