Sight radius is the distance from the rear of the front sight to the rear of the rear sight. The longer the sight radius the more accurate you will be. There are many explanations for this, but two most quoted examples are that sight deflection is minimized with a longer sighting radius. Some also maintain…
With us nearly in December, many people will begin their Christmas shopping, or at the very least, considering what ideas to gift their loved ones with. For those that are partial to firearms, some may be trying to think of a gift that individual will enjoy. Where buying a firearm can prove an expensive gift,…
Exhibition shooting is almost as old as projectile weapons. Mongol horsemen would do exhibitions with bow and arrow from horseback. The wild west shows around the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s were popular exhibitions. Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show gave rise to a plethora of exhibition shootists like Annie Oakley, the husband and…
Cartridge cases are designed for gun loading. Case design uses the rim style to help clarify cartridges. Rimmed have the flange, traditionally found in revolver cartridges and ammo for the lever action and single and double shot barrels. Semi-Rimmed is just a smaller rim. Rimless the head is the same diameter as the case base,…
Boxer and Berdan priming systems are the dominate means used by center fire cartridges. The Berdan was invented by an American, Hiram Berdan an engineer and highly regarded marksman who served as a Civil War skirmisher for the North. A primer uses a cup with a tiny quantity of impact sensitive compounds. When struck by…
By the time of the civil war the rifled barrel was in ascendancy, though some units still sported smooth bore muskets. Claude-Étienne Minié, created a conical elongated and hollow based bullet for firing through a muzzle loading and rifled barrel. Conical bullets and rifling stretched combat out over 300 yards instead of the 40-yard musket…
Firearms nomenclature is a confusing, often contradictory mess. No single systematic means were adopted to designate cartridges or weapons and if varies from both country to country but internally from manufacturer to manufacturer. Brown Bess Musket In the early days most weapons were designated by bore diameter or by designer or manufacturer. Take for instance…
