Videos: Button Rifling
In our last post, we looked at a video showing broach rifling in action, a subject we had studied many months ago. In today's post, we will revisit the process of button rifling. We had studied this...
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In our last post, we looked at a couple of videos showing how button rifling works. This is a technique we had studied many months ago. In today's post, we will revisit another technique that we had...
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In our last post, we looked at a few videos showing how hammer forging works. In today's post, we will revisit another technique to manufacture rifling that we studied several months ago: flow forming....
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Ancient Techniques of Rifling Machines - I
In the last few posts, we studied somevideos of riflingtechniques and we had also studied the descriptions of these techniques in detail many months earlier. The thing to note though is that all these...
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Ancient Techniques of Rifling Machines - II
In our last post, we started a series on studying how people used to cut rifling in their barrels manually, without the benefit of modern machinery. In our last post, we left off with the study of an...
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Ancient Techniques of Rifling Machines - III
In our last post, we saw how a gunsmith from hundreds of years ago, could construct an indexing guide, a key part of a manual rifling machine. In today's post, we will study how they could make the...
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Ancient Techniques of Rifling Machines - IV
In our last post, we saw how an ancient gunsmith could have built an indexing head and in the post before that, we saw how they could build an indexing guide. In todays post, we will look into how they...
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Ancient Techniques of Rifling Machines - V
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 rifling machine. In today's post, we will deal with another...
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Ancient Techniques of Rifling Machines - VI
In our last post, we saw the different types of cutters used by various ancient gunsmiths on their rifling machines. In today's post, we will look at a couple of other parts of the ancient rifling...
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Ancient Techniques of Rifling Machines - VII
In our last post, we saw how ancient gunsmiths would have manufactured barrel clamps and the extension rod. In today's post, we will study the last few bits of ancient rifling machines and then study...
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Ancient Techniques of Rifling Machines - VIII
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 the 16th century to a good part of the 20th century. As we have...
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Ancient Techniques of Rifling Machines - IX
In our last post in this series, we studied a completely assembled rifling machine, as used by ancient gunsmiths. Until now, what we were studying were a bunch of descriptions and some hand-drawn...
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Magazines and Clips
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 posts, we will discuss different types of magazines that are used...
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Tubular Magazines
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 study a particular type of magazine, the tubular magazine.Tubular...
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Box Magazines
In our last post, we studied tubular magazines. In today's post, we will study a type of magazine that is commonly seen in modern firearms, the box magazine.In the latter part of the 1800s, bullets...
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Capsule Magazines
In our last post, we studied a type of magazine that is widely used in modern firearms, the box magazine. In today's post, we will study a type of magazine that came out around the same time as the box...
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Drum Magazines
In our last post, we studied the capsule magazine. In today's post, we will study a type of magazine that is known for its capacity. Today's object of study will be the drum magazine.This type of...
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Pan Magazines
In our last post, we studied the drum magazine. In today's post, we will study another type that looks very much like the drum magazine, but operates a bit differently. Today's object of study will be...
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Rotary Magazines
A few posts ago, in our study about capsule magazines, reader William Reichlinger posted an interesting comment asking whether a 1941 Johnson rifle uses a capsule magazine or not and that wikipedia...
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Helical Magazines
In our last article, we studied the rotary magazine. In today's article, we will study a magazine that was invented more recently. Today's object of study will be the helical magazine.The helical...
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