If you need a new red dot sight for your AR, you might scour the internet looking for listicles and reviews for the best options out there. Trijicon, Sig Sauer, Aimpoint, and Bushnell all produce some trophies that are literally hundreds of dollars.

It’s a sizable investment that will definitely impact your shooting experience, and fortunately, the corpus of online literature devoted to helping you pick a good one is dense. You’ll have no trouble there.

Switch it over to brass catchers, and take a look at listings of “the best brass catchers,” and...

You know Newton’s Third Law of Classical Mechanics, “To every action, there is always an opposed equal reaction.”

Or, perhaps you have heard it paraphrased as, “for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”

Do you know why you know Newton’s Third Law of Classical Mechanics?

It’s not because you took physics in high school or college (although that may also be the case).

It’s because you’re a recreational or competitive shooter.

Recoil is the shooting-world corollary to Newton’s Third Law.

One action is the forward motion...