When the .300 Blackout (a standardized offspring of the wildcat .300 Whisper) was introduced a few years back, it immediately garnered a lot of attention. Despite its similarity with regards to the ballistic trajectory to the well-known 7.62x39, this was a round that promised … [Read more...]
Black Talon ammunition was created by Winchester in 1991. It's a handgun round that took on a mythology of its own. Winchester stopped producing the Black Talon round in 2000, and that kind of fed into its mythology and mystique. You may have heard that it was produced with a … [Read more...]
This Rational Preps video uses the data from Greg Ellifritz's 10-year stopping power study of real-world gun fights to shed the light of actual data on several common beliefs about handgun calibers. The results may surprise you. https://youtu.be/nycYxb-zNwc Here is the link … [Read more...]
Recently I started a two-part review of Liberty ammunition's Civil Defense round. Part 1 can be read here. A +P defensive load zipping out around 2150 FPS, this diminutive 50gr bullet looks impressive. I had some doubts during my first range day as my chronograph was … [Read more...]
"Elite Performance Ammunition" is a presumptuous name. How does it perform? Sig Sauer's 168gr .308 ammunition is competitively priced and performs well. With a couple boxes for testing we recently had the chance to run it through our 26" Marlin X7VH. The X7VH has a … [Read more...]
The FBI has selected Glock Gen 5 handguns in 9mm as their service weapon. There has been much speculation about the reasons for their caliber change. There is a short answer, science. The did the research and they did the math. Spoiler Alert: "While some law enforcement … [Read more...]
