DEFENSE
DEFENSE

Triggers Matter

I have been working with ARs in .300 Blackout for several months now. After finishing a project where I tested the accuracy and terminal performance of a bunch of factory loads and some hand loads – See an upcoming issue of Shooting Illustrated – I’d had about all I could stand of the horrific trigger on one of the test rifles. So, …

Better Than Average

After years of conducting terminal performance testing I thought I would have by now come up with a secret formula to decipher the effectiveness of defensive handgun ammunition. After all, most all of the other big time gun writers have come up with such a formula. Maybe they were all smarter than me. One of the things I have learned is that …

Stopping Power – Explained

Two guys walk into a beer joint in South Alabama and sit beside each other at the bar. One is a portly fellow with greying hair and a handlebar mustache. We’ll call him Guy No. 1. The other dude is younger and thinner and he is dressed in a suit and wearing a cowboy hat and boots. We’ll call him Guy No. …