by admin | Mar 18, 2017 | BBTI, jim downey, Liberal Gun Club, Members
My friends over at the Liberal Gun Club asked if they could have my BBTI blog entries cross-posted on their site. This is the second in an occasional series of revisiting some of my old articles which had been published elsewhere over the years, perhaps lightly edited...
by admin | Mar 14, 2017 | BBTI, jim downey, Liberal Gun Club, Members
My friends over at the Liberal Gun Club asked if they could have my BBTI blog entries cross-posted on their site. I said yes, and got to thinking that perhaps I would revisit some of my old articles which had been published elsewhere over the years, perhaps lightly...
by admin | Jan 1, 2017 | BBTI, jim downey
Happy New Year! A quick recap of the last year: surprisingly active. It’s interesting to see how things have evolved with BBTI over time. The last test sequence we did was the .45 Super /.450 SMC tests, with the data published in October 2015. So without new...
by admin | Dec 26, 2016 | BBTI, jim downey
Remember this graph comparing Muzzle Energy (ME)? Well, a discussion elsewhere got me to thinking … So, let’s take a look at .45 Super: See what I see? Yeah, at 3″ and 4″ all the .45 Super loads are superior in terms of ME over...
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 25, 2016 | jim downey, reviews
A couple of summers ago, I got together with some friends and we did a little black powder shooting. Well, since then we’ve talked about getting together again with even more great historical guns (reproductions) and another shooting buddy, and this past weekend...
