Making firearms ammunition

Firearms History, Technology & Development has a series of posts on the making of firearms ammunition.  From manufacturing cartridges back in the 19th Century until today.  So check them out at the below links.


Manufacturing Cartridges in the 19th Century

Manufacturing Cartridges in the 19th Century - Part II

Manufacturing Cartridges in the 19th Century - Part III

Manufacturing Cartridges in the 19th Century - Part IV

Manufacturing Cartridges: More Modern Methods

I'm still working my way through them and watching the videos.

Some info about Telescopic Sights

Firearms History, Technology and Development has a series of posts about Rifle Scopes you may find very interesting.  I will post the links to each individual post for you, or you can just click on their name at the beginning of this post to go to their blog.



All About Scopes - I

All About Scopes - II

All About Scopes - III

All About Scopes - IV

They also have a full series of posts about telescopic sights.  To cut the rigamarole and read all of their posts on scopes, click the following link:  FHTaD Telescopic Sights

All of these links SHOULD open in a new window or tab for you.

Metallurgy in Firearms

I posted several months back about Firearms History, Technology & Development, and that I had added it to my Blogroll and to the Gun Blog Black Lis.t.  There are currently on the top 2 pages ten posts about the metals used in firearms manufacture.

Such as in Part 10 about how iron ore has been turned into Iron, used in the manufacture of firearms and other things.


"In the Walloon process, the finery forge is used to melt the iron as described above and then it is hammered to remove the slag. Then the iron is heated again in a separate chafery forge, not to melting temperature, but just enough to make the iron soft, so that it can be shaped into bars of standard sizes. The bars of iron can now be sold to customers. The finery forge must use charcoal as its fuel, for the reasons explained above in the previous paragraph, but the chafery forge can use other fuels such as coal or gas as well, because it does not heat the iron enough to melt it and therefore cannot add impurities to the alloy. Typically, the Walloon process would use one chafery for every two or three finery forges."

So click on either the excerpt above to read Part 10 Orrrrrr click on the following link to get directly to the front page:Firearms History, Technology & Development

Magazines and Clips

Firearms History, Technology & Development is starting a new series of posts about Magazines and Clips.  And the differences between them.

From the first post;

"A magazine is a device that is used to hold cartridges for feeding into a firearm's chamber, during the operation of the firearm. It may be of a fixed type or a detachable type and comes in a variety of shapes (box, tube, drum etc.).
A clip, on the other hand, is used to conveniently hold a bunch of cartridges, before inserting them into a magazine. They are generally used for quicker reloading of magazines. Depending on the type of clip, it may or may not remain inside the magazine during operation of the firearm."

This is just in the first post, and they promise further posts on them.  So if you haven't already bookmarked or added them to your blogroll, please do so know.