Category Archives: Historical

From 1870s on British interests in South Africa was being threatened by the expansion of Boer settlers, A small war had been fought between the two groups in 1880-81 which ended in a stalemate. The standoff didn’t last long and in 1899 a large military force was sent to deal with the problem of theContinue reading “Boer Rifleman”

After the FBI’s deadly Miami, FL shootout in 1986, the 9mm Silvertip bullet was scapegoated. Winchester’s answer was to create a more robust version of the Silvertip.

We have another pair of projectiles today: one AP and another looking for a purpose. The story starts with US Army ordnance engineer Abraham Flatau. One of his earliest experiments with tubular projectiles came about when he was trying to develop an improved grenade launcher projectile. The issue 40x46mm grenades had a high trajectory andContinue reading “Totally Tubular! – The GEA “Cyclone” and the PMC Ultramag”

Keeping with the hardware store theme of the last couple of posts, today we’ll be covering a hole-saw projectile design. The difference is this one was originally meant to cut into wood. Stanley W. “Bill” Kaswer was a gunsmith and avid bowling pin shooter. His goal was to design a projectile to cleanly knock pinsContinue reading “Kaswer Pin Grabber Family Data Dump”

Folks had been playing with handgun-mounted optics in competition since the late 1960s, if not earlier. The trick was finding a way to keep an optic securely mounted to a centerfire pistol, all while hoping that the optic didn’t self-destruct first. The first major success came in 1980 when Joe Pascarella used red-dot optics toContinue reading “Rise of the Red Dot in Competition Handguns”