Firearms History, Technology & Development

In our last post, we studied some parts of a factory designed to produce rifle barrel blanks . In today's post, we will continue studyin...

After all the stuff we studied about metallurgy in the last several posts , we will look at an ancillary subject today, forging of rifle bar...

In our last post, we studied how the Bessemer process made it possible for the first time for steel to become as cheap or cheaper than cast...

In our last post, we saw how crucible steel was manufactured after around 1740 or so, using the process invented by Benjamin Huntsman. Whil...

In our previous post , we saw how what kinds of steel are chosen to make barrels and the process by which they are drilled. Now we will cont...

We've seen in our previous post that with the rise of smokeless powders replacing the old black gunpowder, steel barrels became more po...

In the previous few posts, we've seen a lot of detail about the so-called damascus barrels. We've also seen a genuine damascus barre...