160-gr. DPX Corbon ammunition frequently offers the highest velocities for a given caliber and bullet weight of any commercial ammunition on the market. It comes as no surprise that most of it is rated +P. Rapidly expanding bullets, often with fragmentation, have been seen more often than not in ballistic gelatin blocks smacked by their…
It has been said, “With age comes treachery” and some have asked the question, “Why is youth wasted on the young”? I believe that the first is true for some of us and don’t have the answer to the last. I will say that I envy the young their youth. I envy their sharp eyesight, quicker reflexes, but most…
I am not going to get too bogged down in what does or does not constitute a 1911 pattern automatic in this article. For this work, it will mean a single-action semi-automatic pistol whose lineage from the full-size all steel 1911 is apparent. The lightweight can be a full 5″ gun, a Commander-size, or one…
CheyTac Associates, LLC is now offering lead free, law enforcement ammunition in 9mm, .40 S&W, and .45 ACP. Other ammunition manufacturers do this as well, but Chey Tac approaches the issue of “stopping power” via high velocity coupled with a large hollow point filled with a polymer ball. Though this sounds similar to Corbon’s PowRball,…
Not the first polymer frame pistol made, this is the one that started the “revolution” to “plastic pistols”. That they are popular is an understatement. In the early ’80’s the Austrian army adopted this new handgun design and soon hit the US market in a big way with the establishment of Glock, Inc, in Smyrna, GA, in…
Never as common in the police or military communities as either the P220 or P226 and pretty well replaced by the P228 and P229 today, the P225 remains a popular conventional DA/SA 9mm semiautomatic pistol. Lightweight and easy to carry concealed, many private citizens carry these guns as have uniformed police in other countries, particularly…
Produced by Star Bonifacio Escheverria in Spain, this single-stack 9x19mm single-action pistol remains a fairly popular handgun for those seeking inexpensive firearms that are not cheap. If a bit heavy by today’s standards, it is compact and lends itself nicely to concealed carry. These pistols are no longer manufactured and the company that produced them no longer exists in the same form. …