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Wildfowling: Tools of the Trade part one

16th June 2022 Columba Palumbus 2934 Comments

A few people have asked me since the last article to write a little bit about a fundamental part of the sport, which would be the guns themselves. I have touched briefly on this previously, [more…]

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Why the Swiss Voted for More Gun Control

1st July 2019 Going Postal 1625 Comments

Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. On May 19, 2019, Swiss voters approved a new set of gun control restrictions. This newly-approved gun control measure would put Switzerland’s gun control laws in line with European Union standards. [more…]

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Owning a Shotgun

15th May 2019 Going Postal 2929 Comments

A puffin on here has written a series on firearms and their technology up to the 20th century, but what about owning a firearm in the modern day in the UK? What are the laws [more…]

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Milestones in Nineteenth Century Firearms Development, Part Eight

4th March 2019 Tom Pudding 3286 Comments

Introduction During the first half of the 19th century great leaps forward were made in firearms technology and by the 1870s soldiers who 50 years earlier would have been supplied with flintlock, smoothbore muskets were [more…]

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Milestones in Nineteenth Century Firearms Development, Part Seven

25th February 2019 Tom Pudding 3507 Comments

Introduction By the 1860s it had become obvious that the days of the muzzle loading firearm were numbered and that any government that failed to re-arm its troops with breechloaders would quickly be left behind [more…]

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Milestones in Nineteenth Century Firearms Development, Part Six

11th February 2019 Tom Pudding 2302 Comments

Introduction Sometime in mid-2017 I casually remarked to the chap shooting at the next bench to me that I had long been fascinated by the Westley Richards ‘Monkey Tail’ transitional rifle but had never actually [more…]

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Milestones in Nineteenth Century Firearms Development, Part Five

4th February 2019 Tom Pudding 2270 Comments

Introduction By inducing a projectile to spin around its own axis its flight is stabilised and accuracy and range are vastly improved. Rifling a barrel by cutting spiral grooves in a variety of forms and [more…]

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Milestones in Nineteenth Century Firearms Development, Part Four

28th January 2019 Tom Pudding 3044 Comments

Introduction Every month my gun club holds a guest day when members can bring along friends and family to ‘have a go’ with their firearms. Maybe it’s because we were raised on a diet of [more…]

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Milestones in Nineteenth Century Firearms Development, Part Three

21st January 2019 Tom Pudding 3522 Comments

Introduction Although the flintlock ignition system was technically advanced for its time, it wasn’t without its shortcomings. Flintlocks require careful setting-up and constant maintenance and adjustment to be reliable. They also have a relatively slow [more…]

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