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I hear and read a great deal about shooters who are literally scared to death to use handloads in their personal defense guns. Is that ammunition any more deadly than anything you can buy from a store? Is it as safe?  Unless you are making up some exotic loads like buck and ball, there should b ... Read More

There has been plenty of ink spilled over which handgun is the best for this purpose or that one for decades now and frankly I’m growing a tad weary of this discussion.  Now it’s not that I don’t have my favorites, it just seems to me that, with manufacturers coming out with “new” sel ... Read More

Whatsamatter, buddy? Winter blahs got you down? Having a hard time focusing on work? Can’t quite clear your head after those interminable PowerPoint presentations? Sick & tired of being sick & tired?  What you need, my friend, is a little Recoil Therapy because nothing chases away the blues l ... Read More

I know what you’re thinking. Green? You’ve probably already stopped reading.  No, I’m not going get up on a soapbox about people giving up venison and lead bullets for a life of tofu and copper jackets, but I do have a few tips on how gun owners and shooters can be environmentally conscio ... Read More

You know how it was when you were younger: you thought you were indestructible and you could do just about anything without consequence.  Such is the naivety of youth.  Really it’s not until we get much older that we start to notice how things works and one thing a lot of us start to notice ... Read More

With the latest and greatest cartridges out there jockeying for the top position on rifle mountain, more and more wonder rounds of years past are being relegated to obsolescence—or at least the manufacturers would like you to think so. Here are five calibers that are often overlooked but are j ... Read More

You may well have heard tales of how badly lead bullets perform in the heat of battle and many people would have you believe that if you want to put the bad guy down for the count, then your handgun must be stoked at all times with hollow points bullets. But how true are the stories? Can cast bul ... Read More

One is the most popular revolver cartridge in the land, dealing double duties as both a premier personal defense and hunting round, while the other has served the American military through four wars, countless skirmishes and—let’s just call a spade a spade here—set the bar by which all oth ... Read More

While the Soviet Union may have lost the Cold War it certainly wasn’t for lack of trying, and today its efforts are still be felt around the world – notably Africa where wars still are waged with surplus weapons. But on the commercial front gun enthusiasts have seen an increase in the availa ... Read More

An often asked question I get when someone mentions reloading handgun rounds is how important the final step to reloading is: crimping the bullet once it has been seated in the brass. This is actually a much tougher question to answer than you may have thought because there are many types of cri ... Read More

It seems to me that anyone who loads cast bullets buys bullets from a commercial maker at least once before they start thinking they can make their own. They get all excited (especially after they find out how relatively cheap it is to get started) and start casting their own bullets, only to qu ... Read More

Remember that beautiful spent casing chess set we wrote about last fall?  This one, with brass and steel cases carved into familiar-looking shapes.  As gorgeous as it is, it's a bit spendy.  We just found another great-looking ammunition-themed chess set that won't set you back. ... Read More