The British Army was in the midst of a significant weapons transformation from smoothbore muskets to rifled muskets. While three of the four divisions of the field army in the Crimea had been supplied ...

A few years later, another county kid from Hanoverton headed down a similar path. At 15 years old and attending United Local, ...

Americans, for example, tend to associate the smoothbore musket with the Revolutionary War; rifled musket with the Civil War; ...

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John Blanton led all shooters with an aggregate score of 1186, shooting a 592 in smallbore and a 594 in air rifle. Freshman ...

Ruger has created four 75th Anniversary Ruger 10/22 models, adding special touches that make an already firearm into ...

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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 ...

As America’s first smokeless cartridge, introduced 1895, the old .30-30 is not just old—it’s the oldest, as modern American cartridges go. And yet it remains as effective as ever. In fact ...

Muzzleloading rifles using black powder and patched roundballs ... which certainly added more reach and accuracy. Prior to that, smoothbore shotguns were typically only a 100-yard option, but ...