The performance of any gun is only as good as the ammunition you put into it. And I’m not just talking about using any quality self-defense ammunition. One of the reasons that 9mm guns are more effective today than ever before is the performance of modern 9mm ammunition. Of course, improvements are not limited to […]
Shooting Gelatinous Pig Juice With Mike McNett Of DoubleTap Ammunition
The slimiest part of our agenda at the recent Gunsite Academy event hosted by LaserMax was a ballistic testing demonstration by Mike McNett, founder of DoubleTap Ammunition. Mike brought along some standardized 14 inch long gelatin blocks for destruction testing with a variety of DoubleTap loads, most of which use the Barnes TAC-XP all copper […]
Ammo Test: Winchester PDX1 Defender .38 Special +P 130 Grain
When I lug my ammunition testing setup to the range, I get more strange looks than Michael Bloomberg lactating at a Mayors Against Legal Governing (MALG) press conference. That’s because I bring a couple of now-perforated trash cans full of soaking wet newspaper, some old boots and a bunch of discarded clothing. Shooting into water […]
Ammo Review: Winchester Elite PDX1 Defender .45 ACP Ammunition
When it comes to modern personal defense ammo, there’s good news and bad news. Good News: There are, at last count, 2,367,912 varieties of quality personal defense ammo on the market. Bad News: There are, at last count, 2,367,912 varieties of quality personal defense ammo on the market. Good News: Most of them are good. Bad […]
Hot Caliber Flattened Bullet Cufflinks
The coolest in shooting related bling (jewelry) comes from our friends at Hot Caliber. Though trial, error, and downright magic, they’ve figured out a process to make one of a kind jewelry pieces from bullets shot at steel. And no, it’s not lead jewelry. They use a top-secret lost wax technique to cast these unique […]
Winchester Elite PDX1 9mm +P Self Defense Ammunition
Ammo Review: Winchester Elite PDX1 9mm+P Defender 124 grain personal defense ammunition Winchester Elite PDX1 Defender 9mm +P 124 grain personal defense ammunition is a bonded bullet design intended to succeed against the tough FBI ammunition testing protocol. Without going into top secret details (not really), these tests are intended to examine how ammunition performs […]
Ammo Review: CorBon DPX .357 Sig 125 Grain Ammo
We’re getting to be big fans of the Barnes X bullet projectiles. Made entirely from copper, the projectile features a gaping hollow point that just looks like it wants to clog up like a garbage disposal stuffed with Justin Bieber CD’s. But they don’t. Clog that is. The CorBon DPX bullets like to expand within […]