Firearms History, Technology & Development

In today's post, we will study a particular class of firearm that was very uniquely American and popular from the end of the Civil War t...

So what is a barrel shroud ? It is simply a hollow covering tube that surrounds a barrel (either partially or fully). What does it do? Well,...

In our last post, we studied some parts of a factory designed to produce rifle barrel blanks . In today's post, we will continue studyin...

After all the stuff we studied about metallurgy in the last several posts , we will look at an ancillary subject today, forging of rifle bar...

After that long series about different metals used in firearms manufacturing, might as well take a break from a dry topic and watch somethin...

In our last post, we looked at a modern method of manufacturing steel, Basic Oxygen Steelmaking (a.k.a) the BOS process . As we saw, this is...

In our last post, we studied one of the modern methods of steel making, the electric arc furnace . In today's post, we will study anothe...