In the new edition of my Research PressJournal I have an article on loading ammunition in the 19th Century. This draws from published letters and news reports in the UK. Full contents are:
Research PressJournal – Issue 3, Summer 2018. (40 pages)
Calendar of Events
Priming - News, Events, People & Places
Long Range Rifles (MLAGB Branch)
Loading Ammunition (in the 19th Century)
American Rifle Team, Creedmoor 1882
Firearms History: Improvements in the Rifle - Breech-Loading - Selection of the Service Weapon - The Snider and Martini-Henry
Military Match Rifles & Their Sights: Kerr and Turner
Arming Georgia: With The Beginning Of The War, Governor Joe Brown Turned To Domestic Production And Britian To Supply Georgia’s Needs For Arms
Research PressJournal – Issue 5, Winter 2018/19. Free download pdf magazine (40 pages)
Featured articles include a visit to the Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield, c1880, and discussion of the 1866 Benson-Poppenburg Breech-loader. For those with an interest in long range target shooting the small-bore shooting article gives some insight into the discipline in 19thC Great Britain.
Research PressJournal – Issue 6, Spring 2019. Free download pdf magazine (44 pages)
Featured articles include a special feature on the history of the Queen's Prize, illustrated with prize badges of the period, and contemporary 19thC articles on rifled guns and long range rifle fire.
david,
your stuff is real history, and interesting for that reason.
your continued work in collating, saving, and storing this stuff in one findable place is appreciated.
there are now places that purport to be historical that are anything but.
if done wrong, understood history becomes not the truth.
if we are not careful, the political correctness of certain verbal minorities become regarded as the truth, and the real thing could be lost.
thank you.
bruce.
Research PressJournal – Issue 7, Summer 2019. Free download pdf magazine (44 pages)
Articles in this edition have a strong emphasis on the School of Musketry, Hythe, and musketry instruction in the 19th Century. There's also a feature on the Black Powder Target Rifle Association in the US, a history of the St. George's Challenge Vase and a contempory history of the match rifle (originally published in 1881).
Contents:
Priming: News, Events, People & Places
Black Powder Target Rifle Association
School of Musketry, Hythe
School of Musketry - Annual Report 1855
'Pickets' versus Bullets
The Match Rifle - Past and Present
The St. George's Challenge Vase
British Official Mid 19th Century Musketry Manuals
Of particular interest to me is Robert Garibay's article on the "Black Powder Target Rifle Association" movement (page 6). ..........
....................................Jim
You are a ghost driving a meat covered skeleton made from stardust riding a rock floating through space.
Fear nothing. (anon)……………………
Research Press Journal – Issue 9, Summer 2020. Free download pdf magazine (36 pages)
Articles include an update from the Black Powder Target Rifle Association, the Brunswick Rifle, Curtis's & Harvey in 1896, military rifle shooting and the National Match history in the 19th Century.
Contents:
Priming: Book News and Firearms Research)
Black Powder Target Rifle Association ~ 2020 Update
The Brunswick Rifle
The Hounslow Powder Mills of Curtis's and Harvey's, 1896