Firearms History, Technology & Development

In our last post in this series, we studied a completely assembled rifling machine , as used by ancient gunsmiths. Until now, what we were s...

In the last seven posts of this series, we've looked at various parts of a cut-rifling machine, as was typically used by gunsmiths from ...

In our last post , we saw how ancient gunsmiths would have manufactured barrel clamps and the extension rod. In today's post, we will st...

In our last post , we saw the different types of cutters used by various ancient gunsmiths on their rifling machines. In today's post, w...

In our last post , we saw how an ancient gunsmith would build the head piece and tail piece and assemble some of the parts of the manual rif...

In our last post , we saw how an ancient gunsmith could have built an indexing head  and in the post before that , we saw how they could bui...

In our last post , we saw how a gunsmith from hundreds of years ago, could construct an indexing guide , a key part of a manual rifling mach...

In our last post , we started a series on studying how people used to cut rifling in their barrels manually, without the benefit of modern m...

In the last few posts, we studied some videos of rifling techniques  and we had also studied the descriptions of these techniques in deta...