Firearms History, Technology & Development

During World War I, aerial combat between aircraft happened for the first time in history. It soon became apparent that machine guns were ne...

In our previous post about powder horns , we noted that these were containers used to carry black powder . As we noted previously, powder ho...

During the early part of firearms history, people were forced to carry separate containers of black powder , bullets and wads, because the ...

In today's post, we will study an early machine gun: the Puckle Gun . We'd first mentioned this gun many months ago, when we studied...

After all the geeky stuff we've studied in the last few posts, it might be a good idea to study a piece of history instead. We will stud...

In our last post, we discussed the effects of air density on ammunition performance . In this post, we will study the effects of wind on per...

A couple of months ago, we'd discussed how temperature affects ammunition performance . In this post, we will study the effect of air de...