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CapandBall’s Ballistic Tests of 19th Century Rifles

Posted February 24, 2016 in Daily News, Guns & Gear, Other Gear & Gadgets, Rifles by Nathaniel F with 5 Comments

The terminal effectiveness of modern bullets has been the subject of much study, but less well scrutinized have been the projectiles of rifles before 1900, fired by the blackpowder weapons that armed men throughout the age of empires. Fortunately, the Hungarian channel [Read More…]

Weird Magazines, Vol. I: The Kottas Magazine System

Posted October 27, 2015 in Guns & Gear, Pistols by Nathaniel F with 16 Comments

The truly high capacity magazine has been a dream that firearms inventors throughout the world and time have endlessly pursued. One of the crazier attempts to improve the capacity of the Steyr-Hahn 1912 handgun was a system designed by Arthur Kottas. Over at Historical [Read More…]