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Saw this at Gunmakers' Hall at Friendship, Indiana For those of you who use microscopes when you engrave, you might want to make a forehead rest like that used at the optomistrist office. Easy to make one from aluminium bar and pad it. You'll find it helps to place the head at the same place...

Hello one and all I was away with my gonnesmithing classmate at Trinidad State (TSC '12-'14) at Bowling Green, KY for the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association Gun Builder's Workshop. Three days of patchbox and fixtures (pipes/thimbles & nosecap) making and six days of engraving. I've...

Was told there are laser rangefinders that figure out the cosine for shooting uphill/downhill. Additionally, the sight will calculate the actual horizontal distance. Is that truth or fiction and if truth, what laser sights?

The Company of Military Historians' publication, The Military Collector and Historian, has an article on the Brown Bess in its Summer 2022 issue (Vol 74, No. 22). The same issue has a lengthy article on archaeological dig at Guilford Courthouse. The author is Lawerence Babits, author of the...

Do you guys read? I get The American Rifleman and American Gunsmith Magazine as well as a couple of blackpowder magazines (Muzzle Loader, Muzzle Blasts). I'm trying to compile a list of magazines my publisher can send a sniping book to for review.

I don't have one in front of me but it just dawned on me that I never thought about how they ejected. If I had one in front of me, I could figure it out myself but I turn to the audience. I know they're bottom ejection. I know they have dual extractors; with one top and one bottom

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Found it on Newsweek online and then on another website. In this second site he reveals his internal struggle arising from mass shootings he felt he enabled. https://gishgallop.com/the-nras-wayne-lapierre-offers-tear-filled-resignation/ This was a parting shot to hurt the 2A. If he has...

Back in Nov., 2021 I ordered Jeffrey J. Jaeger's hardback smyth-sewn (for longevity) Indiana Gunmakers and Their Muzzle-Loading Longrifles 1778-1900. In late December I was wondering where it was and emailed him with an inquiry regarding my order. He checked his records and stated that he had...

Noted firearms authority Roy Marcot (dec.)'s article on Remington's production of the venerable M1903A3 rifle during WW II: https://americansocietyofarmscollectors.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/2005-B92-Production-of-Military-Rifles-by-Remingt.pdf

The Journal of Contemporary Arms is back in print and I just received Vol. VII, No. 1, Spring 2021. It's a peer reviewed, academic journal that examines various firearms and is a collaborative effort from the staff of the Royal Armouries, Cody Firearms Museum, Nationa Militair Museum and Helios...

Here's a blast from the pass. You too can accurize your M-14. http://photos.imageevent.com/badgerdog/generalstorage/m14tecnicalfolder/US_M1A__M14_Accurization.pdf The trouble is the M-14 is more difficult to maintain and keep accurate than the AR system. I'll take an AR-10 in 7.62mm Nato...

What size was the objective lens? Was it the same size or bigger than the M84's and if so, what size for each?

Gilder-Lehrman Institute present a talk on Washington crossing the Delaware & the Battle of Trenton Not a Monty Python skit but Dr. Philip Hamilton discusses that sneak attack on Christmas where Washington's Army attacked the Germans in their sleep and killed them. Henry Knox's first hand...

Truck mounted cannon launching balls into a building. You can see the balls sailing slowly in an arc through the air. Then it impacts with an explosion and cloud of dust. If you're on the receiving end, it's the O.S.! Run away! Run away! https://youtu.be/a5DJbPgrGWs

I didn't realize it but to transport their powder 8 lb lead cannisters were made that could hold 4 lbs of black powder. After the powder was distributed, the canninsters could be melted down for balls. Rather clever of them. http://www.lewis-clark.org/article/1495

Just learned that Hershel, his brothers John and Frank and Frank's wife Lally are all OK. They live close to Bowling Green, KY. Got that information from NMLRA's Brenda H. who registers people for their gunbuilding classes. I encourage people to sign up for classes. There's always something...

Got an invitation to attend a talk on the history of saddles and along a tangential subject, holster making. Speaker was Fred Dixon who worked as a cowboy and holster maker as well as gunsmith (more on that later). First known use of horse was by the Scythians around 4,000 BC. Horse blankets...

Ever want to build your own longrifle, make a patchbox, thimbles, learn to engrave, do quill work, build a lock, relief carve? Sign up now at https://www.nmlra.org/nmlra-gunsmithing-seminar I'm asking for George Suiter's two classes.

Gun Jesus Ian McCollum examines an inline, rotating breech single shot gun. The cylindrical nature of the breach makes it appear to look like a turret gun and is rather clever. Undated and its maker is unknown, had it been around it would have made a nice infantry carbine for the 1840s...