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I haven't been around here a lot the last few months. Partly that has been due to two large sequences of tests for BBTI that I think will excite a lot of folks: our long-awaited 'cylinder gap' tests, and then full testing of .22 cal ammo (also .223). Look for all of that data to show up on BBTI...

I was wondering whether an idea I had would work, if the practice became accepted widely enough. Thought I’d toss it out for consideration. Feel free to comment here, or post/link it elsewhere. Let’s say you travel by air a fair amount, but not all the time. Let’s say you have a...

Thought I'd give a heads-up: we just posted data from a new round of testing to the Ballistics By The Inch site for a bunch of new .380 ammunition and new 'real world' guns, as well as our first tests of 9mm Makarov and 9mm Ultra. There's a post about it on the BBTI blog as well. As I noted...

Well, this past weekend we celebrated our first anniversary of the Ballistics By The Inch project, as noted on the BBTI blog. And we've made an announcement there which I thought would be of interest here: We’ll probably be conducting these tests in the spring of 2010, and if past...

Well, six months after we first went online with Ballistics By The Inch, and after over 770,000 hits, last night we uploaded a revamped & expanded site. Included are chop tests for three new calibers: .327 Mag, .41 Mag and 10mm. But probably more interesting to most people is a greatly...

So, Saturday I stopped in at my local gun shop, needed to pick up some components for a reloading project yesterday. They were busy, which is good to see, so it took a bit before I had a chance to chat with Dave. "Had a chance to check out the Ballistics by the inch site yet?" "No, not yet...

Hey everyone, just wanted to post the 'official announcement' here about the launch of a new ballistics research project website: Ballistics by the inch. From our hompage: Why "ballistics by the inch"? Well, just about forever people have wondered what kind of trade-off one made in choosing a...

I would not have believed it possible, but these guys are having some fun with the physics of redirecting the force vectors in a .45 submachinegun: Transformational Defense Industries Be sure to check out the vid of the thing in operation. The best part comes when the guy holds the weapon...

Seriously - here's the ad copy from Spycatcher: The armour protects against 9mm Full Metal Jacket Round Nose (FMJRN) projectiles, with a weight of 8gm (124gr) at 430 m/s. Full Metal Jacket Round Nose (FMJRN) type DM11A1B2 (DN or MEN) projectiles with a weight of 8gm (124gr) at 415m/s. 44...

So...I recently came into about 200 pounds of ballestic gelatin powder. The good stuff, commercial grade - the same stuff the FBI uses. Got it from a buddy who had ordered it for a big art project, then that fell through and he was willing to part with it at a reasonable price. It retails for...

Hey all, This got mentioned in passing in a thread yesterday, but I thought I would post it here. It's an essay I wrote about a month ago aimed at those in the general public who are unknowledgeable or slightly anti-gun. It was posted on a couple of other forums at the time, but I wasn't...