Daily Archives: Mar 14, 2026

Charles Mitchell

7 Marksmanship Myths That Sabotage Accuracy even With a Perfect Rifle

Any rifle can be actually precise and still give poor groups on the actual world. The issue is seldom a perplexing one. It is typically a shooter who is in pursuit of the wrong rule, or miming a trick which never suited the task or the body or the...
Charles Mitchell

Why Some Pistols Choke With Optics: The Hidden Mechanics Behind Failures

Slide-mounted optics have redefined what a duty or range pistol can be considered as shootable. They also altered the requirements of the operating system with respect to reliability. As soon as a pistol which performs brilliantly with irons begins coughing with an optic in it, the issue is not usually...
Charles Mitchell

7 Design Choices That Quietly Make Some Guns Unreliable Under Stress

There is hardly a single dramatic fault that makes one say the unreliability. In many cases, it is a series of minor engineering choices, the choice of material, the shape, the spring constants and interfaces, which seems to work fine on the bench but collapses once heat, dirt, and...