Sig has made the leap into the deep end of the pool to compete with the well-established pillars of the micro market, the Smith & Wesson Shield, and the Glock 43 9mms. It certainly looked and felt good, and it held more bullets than its rival competitors, but looks are sometimes deceiving. The true test is when you put a product side by side with its competitors and see how they stack up. So after a not so patient wait to get the newly popular P365 its time to get down to the range, scales and numbers to see how it does.
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9mm Micro Shootout – Sig P365 vs. Glock 43 vs. S&W Shield
BY Jeff Cramblit Published: April 4, 2020 { 137 comments }Christmas Gift Ideas Sure to Make Every Shooter Smile
BY Jeff Cramblit Published: December 8, 2019 { 0 comments }We may have all we need, but we seldom have all we want. So, here are a few ideas for the competitive or casual shooter, hunter, or outdoorsman (or woman) to put on their list to Santa.
The Assassination of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
BY Will Dabbs Published: November 9, 2019 { 26 comments }Yamamoto was the primary architect behind the sneak attack against Pearl Harbor that drew America into the war. It was this role that ultimately cost Yamamoto his life.
Of Dictators, Assassins, and Friends – Walther PPK
BY Will Dabbs Published: November 1, 2019 { 19 comments }South Korea’s breathtaking wealth and productivity stand in stark contrast to the poverty and despair to be found in its neighbor to the North. While modern Americans might presume that South Korea has been free and prosperous ever since the end of the Korean War, such was not always the case. Today’s South Korea has a sordid history indeed.
Springer Precision XDM 10mm- Something wicked this way comes
BY Clay Martin Published: October 17, 2019 { 7 comments }Why, exactly, would I choose a 10mm for a Limited Gun? That class has long been dominated by 40 S&W, and usually in a 2011 platform. So why a 10mm, and why the XDM? Well, the XDM part is the easier answer.
Drugs, Guns, and Money
BY Will Dabbs Published: October 17, 2019 { 10 comments }In a world where vacuous ill-informed talking heads chatter like chimps about assault rifles, weapons of mass destruction, and sundry other gun-related topics they clearly fail to understand, the gory machinegun murders of German Jimenez Panesso and his associate Juan Carlos Hernandez were actually the real deal.
Squeaky Fromme and Her 1911 Pistol: A Whole Lot of Crazy in One Tiny Package
BY Will Dabbs Published: October 12, 2019 { 17 comments }In the second row of onlookers, Fromme reached underneath her ample robes and retrieved a Colt 1911 pistol from a holster on her left side. Extending her arm she leveled the gun at the President’s midriff at near contact range and squeezed the trigger.
Disneyworld and the Death of Osama bin Laden
BY Will Dabbs Published: September 20, 2019 { 48 comments }US Navy SEAL named Rob O’Neill had drilled a pair of Black Hills 77-grain OTM 5.56mm rounds through the brain of the single most reviled human being on the planet. Osama bin Laden, the architect of the single greatest terrorist attack in modern history, was finally queued up to meet his seventy dark-haired virgins.
Winchester 1907 & The Super-Villain’s Sidekick
BY Will Dabbs Published: September 13, 2019 { 8 comments }On June 30, 1934, the German Schutzstaffel (SS) under orders from Adolph Hitler executed Operation Hummingbird. This decapitation strike against their erstwhile brothers in the Sturmabteilung (SA) was intended to remove the reprobate SA commander Ernst Rohm and consolidate supreme power in pre-WW2 Germany under Hitler’s personal control. Between 85 and 200 Germans fell to these brutal extra-judicial killings. History has come to refer to Operation Hummingbird as the Night of the Long Knives.
Killing a Dream
BY Will Dabbs Published: September 6, 2019 { 17 comments }In the spring of 1968, he secured a room in an Atlanta boarding house. An avid reader, he happened upon an article in the Atlanta Constitution that outlined the coming itinerary for civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. Equipped with this tactical information, the career criminal and perennial loser James Earl Ray loaded up his Mustang and made a quick trek to Alabama.







