An easy to load premade compressed powder charge caseless cartridge for black powder Walker Colts.

British revolvers are inexpensive enough for beginner collectors to hoard for their treasure trove.

How to process a large animal into meat for the table.

Half the fun of owning an antique firearm is being able to shoot them as they were intended.

I make cartridge cases for my hard to find .50-95 Winchester rifle. It takes a steady hand and a lathe to peel off a minuscule amount of brass.

Part 1 of the gear that you would see in the Possibles Bag of a mountain man or eastern long hunter to keep his flintlock rifle running in the field.

Test firing the Evans Late Model >44 Long

Firing 1867 Dutch Snider

Don’t discount the power of older weapons.

Modern sport shooters of black powder revolvers don’t realize that paper cartridges were the thing back in the day when these guns were...

The .30 Remington cartridge was developed in 1906. It was Remington’s rimless answer to the Winchester .30-30. It was available...

I won’t go into detail about this rifle, except to say that there’s quite a few of them on the surplus market today. Most of them are in...

There’s all sorts of newer gee whiz gun oils on the market these days. To me, one is about as good as another, based on my usage...

Modern guns are pretty awesome. What’s not to like ? With modern smokeless powders and non corrosive primers, you can shoot your favorite...

I like to turkey hunt with my old Colt 10 gauge double. It ’s the perfect thing for Fall gobblers in Maine. But it’s truly difficult to...

Cast lead bullets are a cheaper way of shooting. You get the satisfaction of controlling every aspect of making your own ammo. However,...

In today’s world of “plastic fantastic” cookie cutter guns, it’s no secret that I like older antique firearms. There’s nothing wrong with...

The Dutch had .69 caliber rifle muskets hanging around their armories since 1848. By 1867, they were doing what the rest of Europe was...

This is making Ammunition for a 7mm pinfire double action revolver.

How I “roll my own” Sharps breech loading paper ammunition