Daily Archives: Jun 28, 2026

Some cartridges are excellent at exactly what they were built to do. The problem starts when hunters ask them to do a bigger job than physics will allow. That matters most when game gets heavy, angles get awkward, and bone has to be broken before a bullet ever reaches...

The 1911-versus-polymer argument has lasted because it is not really an argument about old versus new. It is a question of what kind of compromises a shooter is willing to live with once the pistol leaves the bench and starts riding through sweat, lint, weather, and rushed daily routines....

Army sidearms rarely win attention the way rifles do, but they leave a long trail through doctrine, logistics, training, and maintenance. The handguns that mattered most were not always the newest or the most glamorous. They were the ones that forced the Army to rethink caliber, capacity, field support,...