Firearms History, Technology & Development

Your humble editor recently came across an interesting book called " Modern American Pistols and Revolvers ". The book dates from ...

Silhouette shooting is a sport that had its origins in Mexico and  became popular in the rest of the world after the 1940s. We will study th...

Back when black powder was the common propellant in use in the 18th and 19th centuries, the power of the powder produced sometimes varied f...

Remember the discussion we had a long time ago about some bad shooting stances, including the infamous sideways gangsta grip . Recently came...

In our last two posts, we studied two different ways to couple grenades with firearms, namely rifle grenades and shoulder fired grenade lau...

In our last post, we studied some early developments in grenade launching technology, i.e. the rifle grenade . One of the features of the ri...

In our last post, we studied the origins of the grenade and about those specialized troops trained to use them, the Grenadiers . Towards th...