Firearms History, Technology & Development

When we studied the basics of rifling a while back in this blog, there was mention of a term called " twist rate " for a barrel. ...

Folks, it's time for another edition of firearm myths. We already dealt with this topic previously here , here and here . We will look ...

When referring to firearm accuracy, several texts use the term MOA  a lot. So what is this MOA business anyhow? We aim to study that topic i...

The term " boolit " may be seen on some forums on the internet these days. Well, what is it, the reader wonders? Well, wonder no m...

When referring to firearms, we sometimes hear the term " point blank range ". So what is the meaning of this term and how did it c...

In the last couple of posts, we saw the Greenhill formula and the Miller twist rate formula  as two methods to calculate the twist rate of...

In our last post, we looked at the venerable Greenhill formula , first developed in 1879 and refined over the years. In 2005, Don Miller sug...