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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Civil War was by far the most ... The gun was actually two guns in one, because it had a second, larger, single-shot barrel capable of firing shotgun rounds. A selector switch on the side ...

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 ...