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Agree with all. I didn’t know that no one was killed in the Hugh Glass story. I also didn’t know that he forgave the blokes who...

For sure that is how movies are made - works of art rather than historic documentation. The Hugh Glass story as history is quite...

How about the Northwest Passage, with Walter Brennan, Spenser Tracy, and Robert Young. Not as authentic as the some of the others, but a...

Sigh . . . "Nothin' wrong with quiet." I've thoroughly enjoyed "JJ," "Mohicans" & "Patriot."It's also surprising to discover little...

Just watched The Revenant. Several closeups of DeCaprio’s rifle. Looks to me like a well made Lehigh Valley, possibly a Herman Rupp...

The construction of the Electro-Ballistic Apparatus by Captain Navez (Belgian Artillery), dates back to the year 1849. I have a short...

This got me curious. Seems the early forms of chronographs depended on two paper targets at set distance rotating on a common axis at a...

I likely used an incorrect term for accuracy testing. As I understand it, the 1855 model was the first mass produced infantry musket to...

I thought "proofing" was to certify chamber pressure safety not barrel accuracy.

With today's powder, the chemical components are much more pure than 200 years ago. It follows that today's powder will burn at a good...

They didn’t have chronographs then but did do ballistic pendulums. Also penetration test. Results from the eighteenth and nineteenth...

Powder from "back in the day" was of varying degrees of quality. They could certainly grind it (or actually screen it) to be of...

It certainly wouldn't be surprising that bulk US government-issue black powder was of a generally inferior quality compared to that of...

I would appreciate anyone's opinion / knowledge / experience with this subject: Several years ago I acquired an original 1863...

Wow thanks for the info! Love the rifle... Only the one break in all that time.