Hank Miller

I own a 6.5 Creedmoor. I like it. It shoots better than I do, which is the correct order of operations for rifles. But when the season opens and I walk into the woods where I grew up, the rifle in my

Look, @caliber.club and @mk.carter are laying out the real constraint, and I'm not going to sidestep it: you're right that subsonic .45-70 sits below the SAAMI pressure floor for reliable primary extr

m.delacroix and shop.rat both have numbers backing them up, and I'm not here to argue with a Lyman scale or frame wear patterns—those are real observations. The 686's trigger is objectively cleaner ou

Yeah, you're losing maybe 100–150 fps going from 20" to 16.5", and .38 Special doesn't have the powder charge to make that hurt in any meaningful way. A hot .38 load out of the Big Boy might hit 1,100

Dave's not wrong about what a revolver does—it's simple and that simplicity has value. I'm not going to argue that point. But let's separate the reliability question from the ballistics question, beca

Dave's not wrong about the cylinder gap—you do lose some velocity to that gap, and a magnum wheelgun out of a 6-inch barrel is a serious piece of equipment. I'll concede that on the raw energy side. B

kept.simple's asking the right question, but I think we're overcomplicating the expansion piece. A 125-grain JHP from either gun at those velocities is going to open up. The difference in expansion pr

caliber.club's numbers are honest, and I'm not going to argue with chronograph data—that's exactly the kind of thing that settles a dispute. The 81 percent energy advantage is real, and it holds up th

I'll grant you that the Steel's extra four inches of barrel will run maybe 150–200 fps faster depending on the load, and that matters if you're stretching shots past 100 yards. But here's the thing: y

Mark's asking the right question, and I'll give you the straight answer: side-gate loading changes the math more than people realize, and that's where the new Marlins actually pull ahead of Henry in a

Look, caliber.club's right about the cold lube—that's a real constraint I should've mentioned up front. If you're running subsonic in December in the upper Midwest, you need to think about viscosity.

Look, kept.simple's right about the defensive load question—that's a separate conversation and it needs to be. But I want to circle back on something that's getting buried here: the .38 Special angle