Research Press Journal (Enfield & Whitworth interest)

[dbm]

I've launched a new free download magazine via my web site - lots on black powder arms.

Research Press Journal – Issue 1, Winter 2018. New free download pdf magazine (32 pages).
- The Enfield Rifle
- Long Range Shooting with the Military Muzzle Loading Rifle
- The Whitworth Rifle: A Brief Introduction
- Hints for Long Range Riflemen
- First Hints on Rifle Shooting: Wind
- Private McVittie
- Breech-Loading Small Arms
- Thomas Wilson: his Patents, Arms and Ammunition
- Frederick Prince’s Breech-Loading Rifle

Link: Research Press Journal
You can register with the web site for news updates, but it's not necessary to access the magazine.

David

 

[Crawdad1]

Great site David. Lots of interesting information.

I'm always in awe over those John Rigby built rifles at Creedmoor. Or is it Creed's Moor?

 

[dbm]

Land formerly owned by the Creed family. More information here: Creedmoor and the International Rifle Matches

David

 

[4v50 Gary]

Thank you David. Your research is invaluable to the black powder community.

 

[drobs]

Didn't know that Americans had a had in manufacturing the Enfield Rifle. Interesting reading. Thanks!

 

[Panzerschwein]

The Enfield was a good thumper. Cool guns.

 

[dbm]

Research Press Journal – Issue 2, Spring 2018. (40 pages) Free pdf download.

This edition includes reports, pictures and results for March 2018 USIMLT Nationals, 1000 yard World Championships and Oak Ridge LRML match.

Contents:

• Report - USIMLT Nationals - 2018
• Report - 1000 yard World Championship Match - 2018
• Report - Oak Ridge LRML Match - 2018
• Firearms Research Support
• Rigby, Quicksilver & Bullet Alloys
• Early Firearms History
• The Muzzle Loading Match Rifle in Great Britain
• Arming Georgia - "The Windsor Enfields Affair and Other Incidents"
• The Pattern 1841 Carbine
• Enfield Rifle Research
• The British Volunteer System

Link to Download - external site

Thanks for your interest.

David

 

[PapaG]

Fabulous. Thank you so much.

 

[4v50 Gary]

Thanks!

 

[4v50 Gary]

Video on Joseph Whitworth and the dawn of precision machining:



And read more here http://machinethinking.co/2018/12/2...-the-dawn-of-precision-feat-machine-thinking/

 

[4v50 Gary]

Gun Jesus talks about the Whitworth rifle. This has been altered:

 

[dbm]

Research Press Journal – Issue 7, Summer 2019. Free download pdf magazine (44 pages)

Articles in this edition have a strong emphasis on the School of Musketry, Hythe, and musketry instruction in the 19th Century. There's also a feature on the Black Powder Target Rifle Association in the US, a history of the St. George's Challenge Vase and a contempory history of the match rifle (originally published in 1881).

Contents:

• Priming: News, Events, People & Places
• Black Powder Target Rifle Association
• School of Musketry, Hythe
• School of Musketry - Annual Report 1855
• 'Pickets' versus Bullets
• The Match Rifle - Past and Present
• The St. George's Challenge Vase
• British Official Mid 19th Century Musketry Manuals

Link to Download - external site

Thanks for your interest.

David