by admin | Nov 24, 2016 | BBTI, jim downey
Thanksgiving weekend is the ‘traditional’ anniversary of BBTI, since we initially launched the site on Thanksgiving in 2008. That first weekend we had something like 300,000 hits, as word of the new reference site spread around the world. The site, and the...
by admin | Oct 16, 2016 | BBTI, jim downey, reviews
I love my Cx4 Storm carbine, as I have mentioned and reviewed. Particularly once it was set-up to deal with the additional power of the .45 Super cartridge, it has proven to be a reliable and formidable home defense gun. But there is ONE thing I don’t like about...
by admin | Sep 9, 2016 | BBTI, jim downey
All along, we’ve said that if someone wanted to take the time, trouble, and expense to do some additional research along the lines of our protocols, that we’d be happy to include their data on our site. This is particularly true if it helped expand the...
by admin | Jul 16, 2016 | BBTI, jim downey
One of the questions we get regularly is asking whether we’re going to do some velocity/chop tests on shotguns. For a variety of reasons (both logistical & legal) we’ve decided that such tests are beyond the scope of what we want to tackle. But that...
by admin | Jun 5, 2016 | BBTI, jim downey
If you’ve got a couple thousand dollars available, it’s relatively easy to select one or more firearms for home defense, or for your bug-out bag, or what have you. You’ve got plenty of choices, and just need to sort through the options available and...
by admin | Jan 31, 2016 | BBTI, jim downey
We had another of those wonderful & rare mid-50s January days here today, so I decided to get out for a little range time. In addition to the other shooting I did (basically, practice with some of my preferred CCW guns), I also did a little head-to-head comparison...
