This post describes the speediest means of reloading firearms in the 19th century. The main focus is not the ammunition capacity of any particular type of arm, but rather how quickly various arms ...

Cowboy action shooting -- also known as Western action shooting, single-action shooting, cowboy 3-gun, and Western 3-gun -- ...

Along the way, firearms have become more portable and ... and volley firing remained the dominant infantry tactic well into the 19th century. The arquebus was replaced by the snaphaunce, an ...

Numerous laws regulated hunting practices, as well as firearms’ carry ... historical record yields relatively few 18th- and 19th-century ‘sensitive places’ where weapons were altogether ...

A purportedly authentic late 19th-century vampire-hunting kit sold for ... In 2014, Jonathan Ferguson, curator of firearms at the National Museum of Arms and Armour in Leeds, England, conducted ...