In this video I shoot a Swiss Vetterli rifle converted from rimfire to centerfire cartridges. The rifle is an early model of repeating bolt action rifles and was a game changer for the Swiss military at the time. The Swiss Vetterli was magazine fed from the beginning in 1869, but later the mechanism was adapted to a single shot Italian Vetterli rifle with a slightly longer cartridge. But even the Italian Vetterli was adapted to be a repeater with a 4 shot box magazine, instea

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.

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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 pretty decent shape considering they were made in the 1870’s and on, but there’s a reason they are not worn out. The ammunition is impossible to find since these guns utilize a rimfire blackpowder cartridge. So if you want to play around with the guns, you have to convert them to centerfire and make your own ammunition. I’d like to remind yo

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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...

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