Precision
The *data* book.
Components are up, rimfire matches are filling, and the thing separating winners from also-rans at Canadian precision matches is often a notebook, not another rifle part.
Latest
Gear
The Cadex CDX-300 TAC makes *.300 PRC* make sense
The Cadex CDX-300 TAC is too heavy, too expensive, and too specific to flatter casual ownership. Good. In .300 PRC, those are not sins. They are the point.
Precision
The .22 moment: rimfire is the path into Canadian precision
Rimfire precision gives new Canadian shooters a practical way into the sport while centrefire costs and policy pressure keep rising.
Advocacy
Don't *walk* into the detachment
Opinion. The RCMP had to warn Canadians not to walk banned rifles into a detachment. A federal buyback six years in the making still has no clear compliance path that does not risk criminal charges for vetted owners trying to follow it.
Handloading
The powder shelf, spring *2026*
Walk into a Canadian reloading shop this week and most shelves are full. A few specific ones are not. The empty shelves trace back to Australia, not Ottawa. Here is what is short, what to substitute, and what a newer reloader should carry away.
Advocacy
Half the buyback: the program's own numbers are the argument
The federal buyback declaration tally is not a footnote. It is the program's own math arguing against the program.
Advocacy
The Army Says *Assault Rifle*
Opinion. On April 17, the Canadian Army released a promotional video for a new service rifle: the Canadian Modular Assault Rifle. Six years of civilian buyback rhetoric has rested on that word. The Army just claimed it, from the same Kitchener factory.
Is Nathalie *Okay?*
Opinion. A Polytechnique survivor turned Liberal MP fronts a $1.8B buyback her cabinet colleague called political, on tape. Evidence does not support her. The minister did not. At some point the question is whether this file is still about public safety.
Advocacy
After *2020.* Canada rewrote the firearms file. The data didn't follow in a straight line.
Six years after the May 2020 prohibition, the Assault-Style Firearms Compensation Program has moved from politics into paperwork. The amnesty clock runs out SCC + 90-day amnesty. What the law changed is clear. What changed in public-safety terms is genuinely mixed.
Gear
The common *ten*.
Ten firearms keep turning up in Canadian safes, in the quiet racks at Canadian Tire and Cabela's, and in the classifieds. Non-restricted only. The list is editorial. The reasoning is on the page.
Advocacy
Two decades of *lawful Canadian firearms ownership* - and a government that keeps moving the line.
Canada's licensed firearms population has grown from 1.95M to 2.4M since 2005. Every major federal restriction since 2019 has landed on the most-vetted civilians in the country. A 21-year look at who owns firearms in Canada, and how they have been treated.
Opinion
Why I sold my *Canadian Starter Kit*.
The Canadian Starter Kit - 10/22, SKS, pump 12-gauge - is what every new PAL holder gets told to buy. It cost me close to $1,800, taught me a few genuinely useful things, and sold before I bought the 338 Lapua that actually fits.