Firearms History, Technology & Development

Well, we did study shotgun bores/gauges in an earlier post. But it is hard to visualize the effects of the different gauges from just a des...

In our last post, we studied how the bore/gauge of a firearm was specified. For larger weapons, such as cannons and field artillery, the di...

In the medieval period, the inner diameter of a barrel was frequently referred to as the bore (or gauge) of the weapon, and different weapo...