Since it’s the giving season, I decided to bring a pile of different ammo types to the range for some quick and dirty testing. Ammo makes great gunny gifts by the way. In these times of scarcity, your giftee will know you worked for it! First up is a .45 ACP load I had high […]
What Happens When You Shoot A Bullet Proof Vest? We Test Engarde Body Armor
Did I mention we’re giving away a set of FREE body armor? Thanks to the good folks at Engarde, we are. You can get full contest details here, but in short, it’s simple to win. Just like our Facebook page and you’re entered. The Engarde folks sent us two sets of body armor. One to give […]
Choosing Ammunition for the Springfield Armory XD-S & Other Short Barrel Handguns
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: Speer Gold Dot .40 S&W 155 Grain Self-Defense Ammunition
One thing I’ve found testing thousands of rounds of ammunition through a wide variety of traditional, and sometimes non-traditional, targets is that you can’t generalize. Broad generalizations just don’t hold up. I mean, there’s the obvious exception of Justin Bieber – ALL of his songs are roughly comparable to pre-gelatinized narwhal poop, but in most […]
Ammo Review: Speer Gold Dot .40 S&W 180 Grain Hollow Point
Speer Gold Dot .40 S&W 180 Grain Hollow Point Ammunition It’s a good thing these Speer Gold Dot .40 S&W 180 grain self-defense rounds don’t have dystychiphobia. That’s fear of accidents. I say this because in our testing we had a high-speed wreck. One of our projectiles crashed right into the back of another during the […]
Ammo Review: Speer Gold Dot .357 Sig 125 Grain Bonded Hollow Point Ammunition
Speer Gold Dot .357 Sig 125 Grain Bonded Hollow Point Ammunition It’s no secret that we’re big fans of the .357 Sig cartridge around here. We’ve had a lot of fun and learned a few things while checking out the Glock 31 Gen 4 and Glock 32 Gen 3. So we jumped on the opportunity […]
Buyers Guide: Magtech First Defense .45ACP 165 grain Ammo
We recently did a full gun review of a Springfield Armory TRP 1911 Armory Kote. In the process, we tested a broad array of practice and self defense ammo. Magtech First Defense bullets are constructed from 100% copper, thereby eliminating the potential downfalls of traditional jacketed ammunition – weight retention. With jacketed ammunition, there is […]
Buyers Guide: 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 […]