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 ...

making onlookers jump at the sound of its unnerving boom and providing the smallest glimmer into the sounds and sights of the Civil War battlefields when hundreds of such weapons fired in concert ...

March 9 (UPI) -- A Montana superintendent of schools said his replica black powder muzzleloader ... superintendent Dwain Haggard, a former Civil War re-enactor, said he has brought his Civil ...

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 ...

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 ...