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Up Date to the 1868-77 Peabody rifle

I received a number of pictures from my friend in North Carolina that I wanted to share with all of you. My buddy was nice enough to take his rifle apart and take pictures of all of the components. It is not often someone will take apart there rifle so you can see the inside […]

January 27th, 2015 | Category: Historic weapons, interview with John D, Parts, Peabody rifle, trip | 4 comments

Another 22 single shot pistol

This post is about another interesting pistol that I had an opportunity to look at while on my trip through the mid-west. This pistol is the S&M single shot pistol, called the SM Sporter 22 lr. It is a single shot pistol with an automatic opening bolt, much like a semi-auto pistol, but it stays […]

January 21st, 2015 | Category: 22 single shot pistol, Historic weapons, S&M Sporter pistol, single shot pistols, trip, Weapons Design | Leave a comment

Monday update 10-20

This is just a quick post in that we are home after a grueling 16 hour drive. I will have a complete after action report of our 10 trip looking at guns and talking to heat treating specialist and metallurgists. We had a great time and visited some old friends and made some new ones […]

October 20th, 2014 | Category: heat treating, metals in gun making, trip | One comment