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Zulu Shotgun

A while back I picked up an interesting single shot shotgun with a bronze receiver. A little research showed it as a ZULU shot gun.

The history of this weapon goes back to the end of the muzzle loading era. With the civil war ushering in the era of the breech loading metallic cartridge firearm. […]

August 30th, 2016 | Category: Brass, converted rifles, French weapons, Historic weapons, single shot rifles, snider conversion | 17 comments

Weekend update 1-19-15

Well it was another fun weekend around Gun Lab. This was the list I worked out during the week to be completed this weekend.

The 4″ conduit was run around the wood shop as well as the rest of the 2″ and 1″ and we buried it in preparation for the next phase.

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January 19th, 2015 | Category: Brass, CNC machining, Fab shop, Gun Lab, Gunsmithing, machining, Parts, Parts fabrication, Sheet metal pressings, Shop tours, tool design, Uncategorized, VG1-5, weekend update, wood shop, wood working | 4 comments

Library Thursday

First off you can see that we changed the title for the Thursday post from book review to library. This was done because I wanted to add more then just book reviews. I wanted to add information to the Gun Lab library that I thought would be useful to you.

So this first post is […]

August 28th, 2014 | Category: Brass, Gardner gun, library, Library Thursday, Maxim machine gun, metal casting, metalurgy, Nordenfelt, Uncategorized | 2 comments