Recent content by HankB

A three shot, 0.8" group at 50 yards is barely mediocre - for a rifle billed as a "target" model it's terrible. At this point we don't know the culprit - rifle, ammo, or shooter. (Remington Target isn't particularly noteworthy.) A good rifle with really good ammo like top line Eley or Lapua...

A 200 grain .45 round nose at nearly 900 ft/sec is not a pipsqueak load, but I'm very dubious about the tiny little shoulder increasing the terminal effect. I remember reading a test where Keith-type bullets were painted black and fired into ballistic gelatin that had been "fortified" with some...

The reviewer claimed to be getting groups as small as 0.5 MOA - at 50 yards, that's right around a quarter inch. He was only shooting 3 round groups rather than the usual 5 round groups, but . . . I'm skeptical. Especially since the only ammo brand he mentioned was Remington. MAYBE he shot a lot...

"Several Fu-Go came down as far to the east as Michigan." I'm pretty confident that at least one made it as far as New York State. One of my former colleagues - long since retired - told me a story about hunting in the woods somewhere in New York during WWII. (He had a defense industry job in...

I own Les Baer and S&W 1911s, both are accurate and reliable. NOT SO a Colt Mk IV Series 70 Government Model Jammamatic I owned for a little over a year. That wretched piece of Hartford scrap metal couldn't get through a magazine of hardball without jamming multiple times. It went back to Colt's...

There's nothing new about handgun bullets designed for improved penetration - my Western Ammunition Handbook devotes several pages to handgun ammo designed for police that would penetrate car bodies and stop the fleeing criminals inside - the date on the handbook is 1947, making it appreciably...