Spanish-language news in California hasn't declined evenly. It's collapsed outright in some regions while holding on in others, and the pattern traces back to the same handful of pressures: a shrinking pool of ad revenue that was already thin before it started shrinking, an audience shifting fast toward social media, and ownership decisions made by companies with no particular stake in any one...
Bore diameter tells you almost nothing about whether a cartridge will work in a given gun. The base of the case does: a rim for a revolver cylinder, no rim for a magazine, and in a few cases a deliberately awkward length that keeps a hot round out of the wrong chamber.
Sorting this set by that one feature takes a minute and prevents most of the expensive errors.
Rimmed, for a revolver cylinder...
Cartridge names accumulated over a century and a half of different companies, countries and marketing departments. The result looks like a system and isn't one — the same word can mean a pressure step in one family and a case length in another.
Decoding a handful of patterns covers nearly everything in this series.
Magnum versus Maximum
41 magnum ammo follows the familiar pattern: a...
How a cartridge headspaces — what stops it at the right depth when the action closes — decides what it can safely feed. This set contains ordinary rimless autoloader rounds, one semi-rimmed transitional design, and a revolver cartridge that works on a principle nothing else in production shares.
Sorting by mechanism prevents most of the expensive mistakes.
The revolver with no...
Most of this series has lived on the bottom shelf. This set is the top shelf: the .38, .357, .40 and .44-caliber handgun rounds that sell by the case, plus the brand lines that compete inside the most popular of them. Familiar doesn't mean simple — nearly every cartridge here is a modification of another one on the same list.
Reading them as families rather than as a price list is the...
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