The flintlock pictured here is a typical British "Brown Bess" musket. Marks on the gun indicate that it was used by German mercenaries during the American Revolution. 1637 - First use of firearms ...

In France, though, this conversion project extended the life of many former flintlock muskets that had already been updated to percussion priming. This unique, long-lived military arm was known ...

Adams reportedly owned firearms, and like Washington had a set of flintlock muskets which he used in the American Revolution according to reports and the biography John Adams by David McCullough.

They were there to see the demonstration of a new type of flintlock musket designed by Honoré Blanc, a gunsmith from Avignon so despised by his fellow makers, that he had been holed away in the ...

The Brown Bess Flintlock Musket came in 3 sizes - Long Land pattern 1720 - 1760, Short land 1760 - 1790 and India Pattern 1790 - 1815. The barrel lengths were 46" 42" and 39" respectively.

Lever-action rifles are turning up by the scores in used-gun racks, their wooden stocks battered and once-blued steel worn silver. The grandfathers who used them are afield in happier hunting ...

I’ve even used it on African plains game. So why not get a rifle in .30-30? Its only real limitation would be reach, as the cartridge is best used inside 200 yards. But if you know how to hunt ...

The Corps of Discovery, under Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, issued the first examples of the Model 1803 Harper ...

Some of the English journals are making quite an outcry because on one musket taken, in the hands of a captured Fenian, were found the letters "U.S." Now, we propose that every musket or other gun ...

Farming was how land was made rich; wealth was how it was made. There were numerous forces at work in England starting in the 1600s and going into the 1700s. Including the commons, lords and royal ...

In Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn, players will find themselves navigating a wide terrain and exploring various locations in townships or the wilderness. Many of these locations are often crawling ...

As with most shooting products, the best rifle case to get depends on the user’s specific needs. The size and number of rifles to be transported has an outsized influence on the decision, as does the ...