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History of the American Rifle - I
When we first studied the concepts of rifling many months ago, we mentioned that this was known to German speaking people and the names, Gaspard Kollner of Vienna and Augustus Kotter of Nuremberg were...
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History of the American Rifle - II
In our last post, we left off at the beginnings of a rifle designed for American frontiersmen. We will continue our study in this post.As was mentioned in our last post, the first true rifle designed...
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The Charleville Musket
After our last couple of posts where we studied the development of the first truly American rifles, we will study an influential French musket called the Charleville Musket. Don't worry, there's an...
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Parts of the Firearm: The Receiver
A recent question from a reader of this blog made me aware of something that I wasn't aware of for a long time -- it looks like some people are not really familiar with different parts of a firearm and...
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Parts of the Firearm: The Fire Control Group
In our last post, we looked into the parts of the firearm that would form the receiver. Today, we will look at the parts that comprise the fire control group, otherwise known as the trigger group.The...
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Parts of the Firearm: The Bolt Carrier Group
In our previous post, we studied the parts of the gun that comprise the fire control group (a.k.a. the trigger control group). In this post, we will study another group of components, the bolt carrier...
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Parts of the Firearm: The Barrel
In our previous post, we studied the bolt carrier group. In this post, we will study about the barrel of a firearm. We've actually talked a lot about barrels in a number of posts in the past, but never...
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What is Simunition?
In modern training situations, there is a need to allow police officers and soldiers to practice with the same weapons that they normally use as part of their job. This is where simuntion comes in...
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The AR-7 Survival Rifle
A few months ago, we had discussed the amazing Soviet Space Pistol (TP-82), which was designed to be used as a survival weapon in remote areas. In today's post, we will look at a weapon that was...
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The Richardson R5 Philippine Guerilla Gun
In our last post, we studied about a survival rifle that was designed for backpackers and hikers. Today, we will study an unusual firearm that was originally constructed in the jungles of the...
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The Mauser Anti-tank Rifle
In today's post, we will study a special firearm that was developed during World War I. It was the world's first anti-tank rifle and it was developed by Mauser. This particular rifle was called the...
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The Boys Anti-tank Rifle
In our last post, we studied the world's first anti-tank rifle, the Mauser T-Gewehr M1918, which was invented by the Germans. Today, we will study the history of another anti-tank rifle, the British...
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The Greener Police Shotgun
The topic of today's study will be an unusual firearm, the Greener police shotgun.The history of this unusual firearm dates back to shortly after World War I, when the British ruled over very large...
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What the heck is an "Arshin"?
Imagine you are now the proud owner of a classic Russian Mosin-Nagant M-91 rifle and are excited to try it out for the first time. So you take it out to the range, adjust the iron sights for a target...
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Many months ago, we talked about the development of the percussion lock. This was where the idea of striking a shock-sensitive substance with a hammer to ignite the main charge of propellant was...
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Unusual Firearms: Key Guns
In our last article about unusual firearms, we looked at the Greener police shotgun. In today's post, we will look at a very unusual class of firearms, a combination of a key and a gun, the so-called...
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Headspacing - I
It has been a while since the last article. Today, we will study an important concept called "Headspacing". This will be a two-part post.The term "headspacing" is defined as the distance between the...
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Headspacing - II
In our last post, we looked into the subject of "headspacing", we will continue to study our subject in this post. As was suggested in our last post, headspace is the distance between the bolt face and...
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Firing Different Sized Cartridges?
After all that stuff we read about headspacing, in the last couple of posts, let's look at a tangential topic here. In the image below, we have three kinds of cartridges, all of .22 caliber, but of...
View ArticleFanning a Revolver
Fanning a revolver is a technique often used by trick shooters to increase the rate of fire of single action revolvers. In a single action revolver model (such as the legendary Colt Single Action Army...
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