The Heartless Bastard Journal

Firearms Industry News & Guides
Anders Herzberg

P320 Updates, 2A Industry Dram Alert, & FFL Digital Marketing Tips

Firearms Industry Drama Continues… …but the digital marketing must go on.  Well there’s been a development in the P320 Airforce incident, it looks like a second Airman has been arrested on several charges. But can SIG breath easy at this point? We also discuss Bob Vogel’s arrest and charges, Rare

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Firearms Industry News & Guides
Anders Herzberg

Caliber Wars Part 3 – Measuring Ammunition Performance

Measuring Terminal Ballistics In the previous parts we have looked at the performance of various rounds as well as how barrel length affects the performance of various calibers. Now we’ll be looking at how performance is measured and compared according to the FBI standards, and proposing a new, possibly more

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Caliber Wars Part 2
Firearms Industry News & Guides
Anders Herzberg

Caliber Wars Part 2 – Comparing Barrel Length

Barrel Length Impact on Handgun Ballistics In part one of this three-part series, we looked at performance of the most popular calibers for self-defense and how they performed in testing, now we’ll be looking at how barrel length can affect that performance.  It may seem like an issue of concealability;

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Caliber wars - Part 1
Firearms Industry News & Guides
Anders Herzberg

Caliber Wars Part 1 – Capacity or Muzzle Energy?

The Caliber Wars Revisited Today the shooting world has more or less settled on 9x19mm Luger as the default handgun caliber for a variety of reasons. Capacity, effectiveness, recoil, and more are all have combined to make 9mm the default round. However, I being a bit of a number’s nerd

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