including flintlocks, wheellocks, doglocks, snaplocks, matchlocks, percussion caps, blunderbusses, and many other technologies to make the guns easier to use, faster to reload, and safer to fire.

As of 1800, most firearms were single-shot muzzleloading blackpowder flintlocks. By end of the century, semiautomatic pistols using detachable magazines with modern gunpowder and metallic ...

They were all old-style muzzle-loaders—flintlocks or caplocks*—and the oddly hatted people were devoted muzzle-loader fans. Muzzle-loader fans have to be devoted. Their guns are handmade (many ...

Ever since the 13 colonies gathered enough gumption to form a union, U.S. soldiers have carried an evolving range of weapons, from flintlocks pistols to lever actions to assault rifles.

House is ardent about authenticity in his rifles, and the historical significance of the long rifle, especially the flintlocks, is pronounced in the settling of the Appalachian region. The rifle ...

Arguing about a bad haircut in John Schneider’s barbershop on N. 1st Street in Lehighton could be a mistake. An antique gun collector, Schneider, 72, has hundreds of rifles, pistols and other ...

In truth, the CLA is actually much more than just flintlocks. Among its members are practitioners of all the nearly lost artisanal skill sets early Americans relied upon before the Industrial ...

Flintlocks are so intriguing to one Pennsylvania hunter that he decided to hunt more than deer with them and actually builds his own guns. Brian Kauffman, 34, of Thompsontown, Juniata County ...

We would therefore only be talking about muskets and flintlocks. Unfortunately, at the present time, instead of the presence of huge, single-fire, once every twenty seconds guns (muskets and ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. In the 1970s, a Windham school bus driver named Eph Jillson bought one ...