Firearms History, Technology & Development

In our last post , we studied the basics of magazines and also the difference between a magazine and a clip. In today's post, we will st...

It has been four years since this blog was first started and guess what? We haven't talked about magazines yet. In the next series of po...

In our last post in this series, we studied a completely assembled rifling machine , as used by ancient gunsmiths. Until now, what we were s...

In the last seven posts of this series, we've looked at various parts of a cut-rifling machine, as was typically used by gunsmiths from ...

In our last post , we saw how ancient gunsmiths would have manufactured barrel clamps and the extension rod. In today's post, we will st...

In our last post , we saw the different types of cutters used by various ancient gunsmiths on their rifling machines. In today's post, w...

In our last post , we saw how an ancient gunsmith would build the head piece and tail piece and assemble some of the parts of the manual rif...