by James Downey | Nov 3, 2019 | Discussion., Firearms, guns, jim downey
Recently I had the opportunity to take some defensive firearms use classes from some highly-respected pros in that field (no, I’m not going to say who). This was the first formal training I’ve had in a while, and it was a great weekend of experience which...
by James Downey | Aug 21, 2019 | .45 Colt, ammo, ammunition, art, ballistics, BBTI, Colt, Data, Discussion., Farscape, Firearms, Gatling Gun, guns, jim downey, lasers, science fiction, Springfield XDM, technology, Wikipedia
Again, it’s been a while. Partial explanation towards the end of this post. So, the BBTI team finally got together to do something we’ve been wanting to do for several years now: shoot a Gatling Gun. Yep, a real, honest-to-gawd Gatling Gun. Well, not an...
by James Downey | Nov 25, 2018 | BBTI, jim downey
Happy Anniversary! Yup, the BBTI website launched on Thanksgiving weekend, 2008. That first weekend we had over 300,000 hits, and it’s been something of a roller coaster ever since, with millions of visitors, thousands of discussion threads, and countless...
by James Downey | Aug 8, 2018 | BBTI, jim downey, reviews
Popped out to the range for a brief bit of testing this morning. And found something interesting. Last time I was out, I ran into a problem with my Springfield EMP4 (9mm, 1911 platform), which I got earlier this year. After a couple of rounds of good Self Defense...
by James Downey | Jul 29, 2018 | BBTI, jim downey
This post is NOT about gun control, even though the article which it references specifically is. I don’t want to get into that discussion here, and will delete any comments which attempt to discuss it. Rather, I want to look at the article in order to better...
by admin | Apr 8, 2018 | jim downey, Members, reviews
I recently had a chance to shoot an AMT Lightning — it’s a clone of the Ruger Mark II .22lr pistol, but in stainless steel. Here it is: That’s a 10″ factory barrel, which was one of the options available when these guns were being produced back...
