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One of the biggest misconceptions about barrel length is the belief that shorter barrels are always easier to handle. While ...

The opinions I offer in these posts are almost always formed out of personal experience that stretches back nearly to the invention of firearms. Not in this case. I’ve had some experience with ...

I suspected it for years, and evidence strongly suggests that the need to break in a new rifle barrel is a myth. A rifle's accuracy depends solely on the quality of the barrel. If it's a high-quality ...

The most common definition of “caliber,” as it pertains to guns, is about as straightforward as you could want it to be: Caliber simply mean the diameter of the hole in a rifle or pistol barrel. Yet ...

In the age of single-shot muskets and early rifles, the rate of fire was fairly low. Fire a shot, then reload, and reload slowly at that. Over time there were a number of attempts to increase the ...