Tim Claypool admired the handiwork of the craftsmen who made black powder muzzleloader rifles dating to the late 1700s and 1800s and replicas on display at a collectors show Saturday, but he was ...

When smokeless powder took over from black powder, such loads in .44-40 W.C.F. were offered. The Winchester loading, introduced in 1893, had the same 200-gr. bullet in front of 17 grains of DuPont ...

Those cardinal 1894s were chambered in .32-40 and .38-55 Winchester. Both cartridges still used black powder. The very next year, the Model 1894 became the first rifle ever chambered for a smokeless ...

Originally, the Model 94 was introduced chambered in two black-powder cartridges, the .32-40 Win. and the .38-55 Win. However, by the next year in 1895, the Model 94 was introduced in a new ...

The .30-06 Springfield cartridge also has a couple of other names. In metric, it’s 7.62x63mm, and Winchester called it the .30 Gov’t ‘06. You’ll notice it also uses the old black powder naming ...

Less fragmentation in muzzleloading and black powder cartridge rifles Date: December 8, 2016 Source: Oregon State University Summary: A new study found that traditional bullets for muzzleloading ...

1380 - Hand guns are known across Europe. 1400s - The matchlock gun appears. Before the matchlock, guns were fired by holding a burning wick to a "touch hole" in the barrel igniting the powder inside.

The Eugene Pioneer Cemetery was established in 1872 and currently has more than 767 lots across 16 acres with about 4,000 burials, according to the cemetery’s website.The resting sites of early ...

The Winchester Model 1873 was more than a rifle model. It became an American symbol. ... Employing a .44-caliber, 200-grain bullet propelled by 40 grains of black powder, ...

The .32 caliber long rifle took a little more time to demystify, but the recipe is just as simple beginning with 20 grains of Hodgdon Triple 7 FFFg (3F) granulated powder.

The Sons of Union Veterans gave a black-powder rifle salute. Hundreds of visitors attended the Memorial Day event at Eugene’s historic Pioneer Cemetery, uniting veterans, their loved ones and ...

By Lee TolliverThe Virginian-Pilot COURTLAND - Southampton County will remain off limits to hunters hoping to use black-powder rifles to shoot deer.Of the counties and municipalities in Virginia ...