Over the past 10 years, firearm sales, units and dollars, have soared in the face of Second Amendment struggles, ammunition shortages, a liberal press, liberal states and local governments attempts at trampling the Second Amendment and, at times, in the face of a truly crappy economy. Yet firearm manufacturers were […]

Bushmaster is the leading supplier of AR-15 type firearms. The brand is popular with hundreds of law enforcement organizations around the country and with the military of more than 50 countries world wide. In addition to law enforcement and military sales, Bushmaster is popular with civilian consumers for security, hunting, […]

It seems that every time a new chronograph is introduced, we give it a try; high end, low end, light sensors, magnetic sensors, sound sensors. Some had elaborate analytical software, some logged details in a data base, others just spit out fps or meters per second in a path to […]

A long time ago, a good friend told me that the easiest way to stay on point when writing is to condense the objective of the work to a short sentence and keep that sentence in clear view when writing. So I did. No personal computers yet in existence, I […]

It is tough to write about acronym firearms, uppers and accessories. The hardware can be exceptional, as can be the performance, but a vocal 5% component of the culture and press surrounding these types of firearms carries on like teenage girls at a Katy Perry concert. As a guy with […]

The Springfield XD continues to demonstrate impressive reliability, accuracy and shooting comfort as a component of our ongoing 357 SIG project. The feature that needed to be enhanced was the factory 3 dot sight set to improve sight visibility. There are lots of accessory sights made for the XD including […]

A brief background…. STI International’s history pretty much makes it the Eric Clapton of firearms. STI International is a company formed by innovative, if sometimes ephemeral collaborations; some product design and refinement, some manufacturing technology and lots of business and market development. Each iteration of ownership, each change in leadership […]

The 357 SIG has a way of making publishers of handload data and makers of reloading equipment look like members of the U.S. Congress; they appear to come down squarely on both sides of every issue, but then looks can be deceptive. As a beltless, rimless bottle neck round, most […]

Texas, not Massachusetts lineage I believe… The current Springfield Armory, like Henry firearms, is company that suggests a business lineage that does not really exist. It is a good marketing ploy, but one seemingly without material substance. The Springfield, Massachusetts based Springfield Depot/Armory was in operation in one form or another […]

It was about 3 AM, I was watching the second season of Green Wing on Hulu and thinking that Michelle Gomez played the best character, when it dawned on me that I was going about proving the “Component sort and control leads to accuracy” hypothesis in a convoluted and bewildering […]