Firearms History, Technology & Development

In our last post, we looked at tinfoil cartridges , which was one way to make cartridges more resistant to water. In today's post, we wi...

In our last post , we studied linen cartridges . In today's post, we will study cartridges made of a more exotic material: tinfoil. Yes,...

A few weeks ago, we began to study an early form of cartridge: the paper cartridge . Where we left off, paper cartridges had advanced to the...

In our last post , we saw the advances in paper cartridge technology to handle expanding bullets. In today's post, we will study more ad...

In our last post , we looked at the earliest forms of paper cartridges . In today's post, we will look at more developments in that fiel...

Since we were discussing cartridge rim types in our recent series of posts , your humble editor decided to go back in time to the first ca...

In our last couple of posts, we looked at a few cartridge rim types: the rimmed cartridge, semi-rimmed and rimless types. We will look at ...

In our last post about various cartridge rim types, we looked at the rimmed cartridge . As we noted in the last post, rimmed cartridges are ...

In the next few posts, we will study different types of cartridges by a specific part of the cartridge: the rim . We will discuss five diffe...

Assume that you've just purchased a firearm and brought it home and found that you don't know what cartridges the firearm takes. Thi...

Where we left off in our last post , the company formed by Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson was off to a bad start, as the lever action firea...