What’s Wrong With This Picture?
Not just a squib. Not just a round fired into the barrel after a squib. Not just two. Three. Three rounds pushing the squib slowly…
JulieG and PRO GUN
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Springfield/Warren 9mm 1911 Endurance Test: Report #25.1
After the last update, I decided to detail strip and clean the gun. Lo and behold, the ejector has broken again. I cannot say exactly…
Springfield/Warren 9mm 1911 Endurance Test: Report #25
46,551 rounds 14 stoppages 0 malfunctions 3 parts breakages Less than 3,500 rounds to go! Barring a catastrophe the SACS/Warren gun should hit the 50,000 round mark within…
Great Minds…
Kathy “Cornered Cat” Jackson, Can I Teach That? at the Scratching Post MAC from the Military Arms Channel Blog The Bang Switch, The Fading 40 Caleb talks about How…
9mm: Cool again?
A friend of mine emailed last week to say that his small police department in Ohio was switching from the .40-cal pistols they’ve been carrying…
Context Matters
This sign is posted at Peacemaker National Training Center in West Virginia: It makes far more sense when you see it in context. Train hard…
Springfield/Warren 9mm 1911 Endurance Test: Report #24
43,274 rounds 13 stoppages 0 malfunctions 3 parts breakages The gun suffered another stoppage, a failure to feed a CCI Blazer 3509 FMJ. The bullet nose was…
Riddle
What do you call a shot so close to a hit you need magnification to tell for sure that it isn’t touching the line? A…
FOF: Pros and Cons, Part 1
Back in August 2012 I wrote an article called Competition: Pros and Cons. Today, it is followed up by a similar discussion about another oft-debated aspect…