Breech-loading weapon

Every so often, a product comes down the line so innovative you can actually feel the ground shift under your feet. The automobile certainly shook terra firma in horse and buggy days and in the 21st Century there was tectonic movement with the smartphone. Now, if you’re a shooter, you should feel some pretty notable tremors starting up because SIG Sauer is set to do the same when it comes to precision optics. Unveiled at the NRA 2018 Annual Meetings and Exhibits, the SIERRA3BDX is perhaps the

In the article "Gunsmithing Requires Innovation" Paul Mazan has a customer come to him with hopes of fixing his grandpa's old antique shotgun. To be exact, it was a Belgian Damascus-barreled shotgun made by F. Dumoulin. Back in those times the gun manufacturers would sometimes print any name the customer wanted on the firearms. For example, if you owned Frank's Great Hardware, you could have "Franks Firearms" printed on the side of your shotguns. This proved to be all but helpful when finding replacement

The bolt action method was the first ever successful type of repeating firearms. Dating back to 1824, it came 51 years before even the famed double barrel shotgun in 1875. Although the first bolt action rifle was produced in 1824, the Nadelgewehr was not adopted into the Prussian Military until 1841 and was not fielded until 1864. The first bolt action rifle was not fielded in battle until the Battle of Antietam in 1862 when 900 Greene rifles were utilized by the Union Army. However, the Greene

Since I was a little girl, I remember hunting season; Dad and Katlyn, my sister, would come home to say they killed a deer. Even though I did not enjoy hunting, I still see how much they love to go; hunting great bonding time for them. My dad taught my sister and me how important gun safety is. He has shown us how to carry a gun properly, never to aim it at anyone, never put our finger on the trigger until ready to shoot, and always leave the safety button on until ready to shoot as well. In my

With the progress of the metallic cartridge case and the advancement of smokeless powder, a reliable ignition method was needed. When loading ammunition, the ignition method utilized is the primer. Today’s primers are basically a tiny cup of an explosive that ignites the powder charge. Dating back to 1805 and developed by Reverend Forsyth, this detonating powder was a mixture of fulminate of mercury and potassium chlorate. Not only does the invention of the primer offer convenience its more reliable

How to Shoot a Gun The 1853 Enfield Rifle-Musket, a 1,400-millimeter gun that can fire up to 1,250 yards with a muzzle velocity of 430 meters per second, is essential to be known how to be used by all real men. Fortunately, it’s easy to handle if you follow a few precise steps. First, you must start off by gathering all the materials needed to load this carbine rifle. These materials include a rifle musket, percussion cap, ramrod, and a paper cartridge, and a .58-caliber miniature ball. Then, you

This week’s lesson over gunsmithing the AR-15: How to maintain, repair, accessorize was a big review for me. Since I have more experience with this type of rifle than any other weapon. I knew the difference between the fixed AR stocks and collapsible stocks. I never gave it enough thought though for the reason of the small hole running the length of its axis of the buffer tube. The design is for a drain hole if water was ever to get into the buffer tube. This never came to my mind since I was train

the clients life being completely sure that the gun is going to good hands when done. “Repeated pools have shown that over 90% of the American Public supports laws requiring background checks on all gun purchasers, regardless of whether they buy weapons from licensed or private dealers. A survey conducted for the New England Journal of Medicine in January 2013 found that 84% of gun owners and 74% of NRA members also support requiring a universal background check system for all gun sales.” Background

or pistols. By the 1500s people were able to make pistol effective to about four feet. One bad thing was how long the pistols took to reload so they then began to design and create the revolver (18). Then around 1833 the very first breech loader was created. A breech loader is loaded from the back of the gun instead of the front making it a lot quicker and easier to reload. Then shortly after in around 1840 they began to mass produce the first revolver called the pepperbox (Supica,

The revolver was invented by Samuel Colt in Paterson, New Jersey, and was patented on February 25, 1836. The revolver is a handgun featuring a rotating cylinder with multiple chambers to hold bullets. Before the invention of the revolver, people used single-shot guns, like rifles and shotguns. Each time a bullet was shot, the shooter had to reload another bullet and then shoot again. During the revolutionary war, soldiers used muskets, which are very inaccurate single-shot guns, extensively