The old 1975 Lyman Black Powder Handbook lists the following data for a patched 92-grain lead ball - 2690 LUP (Lead Units of Pressure) with 25...
AJumbo, some guys set up a cylinder to fire, removed from the gun - no barrel - and measured a velocity of 146 ft/sec. Here's an old thread which...
During the 1934 Congressional hearings which led up to the National Firearms Act, Oklahoma Rep. James McClintic asked U.S. Attorney General Homer...
In spite of all the "noise" from the Establishment propaganda machine, scientific surveys show that military-pattern semiautomatics have a higher...
This one looks better - https://www.theepochtimes.com/mao-zedongs-liberation-of-chinese-women_2257508.html
Several years ago, a BP substitute called "Sannadex" was commercially marketed in South Africa. According to this old thread from a South African...
AlexanderA, I imagine you've seen this before - but others might be interested in reading about the "Good Old Boy" shenanigans which transpired in...
Perhaps you are referring to Hitler's Operation Tannenbaum, and SS Oberst Hermann Bohme's 1943 memorandum? Good reading, from gun rights author /...
Sorry, this world is an inherently dangerous place. Between 2005-2014, more than 100 school bus occupants were killed in highway accidents -...
It's interesting how we let the mainstream media steer the discussion. From Wikipedia's list of mass shootings over the past 70 years -...
It shouldn't be too difficult to convert a .44 Uberti revolving carbine to .36...... replace the barrel, and drop in a .36 Uberti Remington...
Some people here might remember the media's non-stop propaganda blitz which began with Patrick Purdy's schoolyard shooting rampage in 1989, and...
West Virginia broke away from Virginia in the 1860s - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeling_Convention
We used to have the choice of searching titles only, or searching the entire description. As far as I can tell, we no longer have the option of...
How I interpret it - Looking at the graph in post #8, and assuming the time-scale numbers to represent milliseconds - The blackpowder pressure...
As I understand it, smokeless (ie, nitrocellulose) powders have an auto-ignition/cook-off temperature around 300 degrees F, while blackpowder has...
Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them properly armed and equipped” – Alexander Hamilton,...
As you go further back in time, you get closer to the original substance of the 2nd Amendment. In a 1934 Congressional hearing, the U.S. Attorney...
Yep, that's what they say. They tried to make the 1911 idiot-proof, but I guess they didn't quite make it Patton-proof. Reverting to the revolver...
.....and where did I post that Mexican Carry is inherently unsafe? GEEZ....... I remember Mexican-carrying a Browning 9mm in the back seat of a...
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