Firearms History, Technology & Development

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...

In our last post , we studied about rocket ball cartridges , the Volition repeating rifle and the Jennings rifle . As we saw previously, th...

We have looked into several developments for metallic cartridges in the last few posts. In today's post, we will look at a very early de...

In our last few posts, we studied the process of manufacturing brass cartridges , as it was done in the 19th century and in modern times . ...

In our last four posts, we looked at how cartridges were made in the Kynoch factory in the 19th century. We will briefly look at how cartri...

In our last few posts, we saw how they manufactured cartridge cases , primer caps and bullets in the 19th century. In today's post, we...

In our last couple of posts, we studied how the cartridge cases and primers were manufactured during the middle of the 19th century. In to...

In our last post, we studied how metallic centerfire cartridge  cases were manufactured in large factories in the 19th century. We will cont...

In today's post, we will look at how brass centerfire cartridges  were manufactured in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The process we...

Many months ago, we talked about the development of the percussion lock . This was where the idea of striking a shock-sensitive substance wi...

When we left off in our last post , we saw that cartridges like .45-70 and .50-90 were named based on their caliber and the amount of black ...

In the world of firearms history, we often see famous cartridge names like .30-30 Winchester, .45 ACP, .30-06 Springfield etc. So how exactl...

In the last few posts in the series, we've talked about all the equipment needed for reloading. Now we will discuss how the process of r...

In the last few posts in this series, we looked at various individual tools and materials needed to reload cartridges. For many of these too...