Powder, minie ball and wad, tap the three down into the rifle barrel, slip percussion cap onto the firing nipple ... and an expert on firearms, was shooting a Civil War-era rifle, possibly ...

Still, it isn’t a place where people get to fire a Civil War-style cannon at an old Army ... They oversee the historic weapons program, working with re-enactors who demonstrate black-powder ...

which used three-shell magazines instead of the one that the old Civil War rifles used. Dad drove out to Harrisburg and loaded 50 rifles into his 1924 four-cylinder Overland, and the firing squad ...

Fort Leavenworth? They were the guns that won the Civil War and the American West, and Thursday afternoon their modern-day replicas got a workout on a Fort Leavenworth firing range. Army Lt.

Lever action rifles are fast shooters. Today, the champions of the Single Action Shooting Society can fire 10 shots in 2 seconds. The competition requires use of unimproved replicas of common 19th ...

The Civil War is ... unusual guns on this list. Primarily in use by the Confederacy, the LeMat had a 9-shot revolving cylinder as well as a secondary barrel that was capable of firing 16-gauge ...

The Civil War is ... unusual guns on this list. Primarily in use by the Confederacy, the LeMat had a 9-shot revolving cylinder as well as a secondary barrel that was capable of firing 16-gauge ...

While the term “firing squad” can be found in U.S. newspapers before the Civil War, the phrase was usually used to describe a different custom, akin to a salute, when guns were fired into the ...

Before the matchlock, guns were fired by holding a burning wick to a "touch hole" in the barrel igniting the powder inside. A shooter uses one hand for firing ... of the Civil War, Spencer ...